Example sentences of "was aware that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 2 | Though , as he had already noted , Matthew was aware that to one stratum of society the choice between Annabel 's or Regine 's could be seriously serious . |
| 3 | As a designer I was aware that with the underarm shaping removed the seam would be at least two inches longer but I must admit the sleeves tended to look out of proportion if that was allowed for . |
| 4 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , it was this rule on which the Revenue rested its argument that the taxpayer should be taxed on the full amount of the benefit , even though it was aware that at the time the 1976 Finance Bill was being debated , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , expressly stated that the benefit of a school place given at concessionary rates to the child of a teacher at that school would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed in this case ’ . |
| 6 | The Captain was aware that at this stage she was still sufficiently frightened by what had happened to her to be hiding something , but experience told him that U would be useless to try and force her . |
| 7 | Knowing his sister so well , he was aware that despite her denial , her decision to abandon the idea of marriage to Harry had already been made . |
| 8 | I was aware that in some circles there was a market for less innocuous pleasures , for there was a great deal of poverty that winter , and the occupying armies , with their apparently endless supplies of food and tobacco and warm clothes , could buy more or less whatever they wanted . |
| 9 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |