Example sentences of "recognise [pers pn] for [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not going out of my mind , she thought , and if , at the moment , the outside world does not recognise me for what I am , my sister knows she has only to speak a word here and there , to take a decision , and who will listen to me ? |
| 2 | As a result , we now have a very detailed picture of the lifestyle of the cuckoo and can recognise it for what it is : not a case of divine creation , but a superb example of the complex adaptations that occur in the intricate interrelationship . |
| 3 | Forster stood before the row of suits , hanging like a lie of petrified robots , and immediately recognised them for what they were ; instantly realised the enormous risk they might all be running , at least below decks . |
| 4 | But behind some of the peeling doors painted in council colours , there burned ambition that would have surprised the rest of the street had it recognised it for what it was . ’ |
| 5 | They had all made that shrill moan during their funny parties , and by the time of Gary 's birth , Mary had come to recognise them for what they were — satanic incantations . |
| 6 | For being the only male in my family to recognise you for what you are ? ’ |
| 7 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 8 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 9 | He had time only to recognise it for what it was — a signal flare gun — before it belched a tongue of green flame at him . |
| 10 | Experience in Northern Ireland enabled him to recognise it for what it was . |
| 11 | She knew it , and they knew it too — even the women in the audience responded well to her brand of flirting , recognising it for what it was . |