adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acutely aware/conscious (of/that)
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Students are becoming acutely aware that they need more than just paper qualifications.
be/become aware of sb's presence
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It was only when I coughed that he became aware of my presence.
fully aware
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I am fully aware of your problems.
painfully aware
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We are only too painfully aware of the damage his actions have caused.
well aware
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I am well aware of the risks involved.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
acutely
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It reveals instead a man who is acutely aware of his image.
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But repetition is what I am acutely aware of now.
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The present generation of young people is acutely aware of the need for a second language.
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I stood four-eleven and weighed ninety-two pounds, and was suddenly acutely aware of it.
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I was acutely aware of this as I arrived at Fla Barra.
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The presence of the baby nurse had made him and Rhoda acutely aware of what a dump they lived in.
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I became acutely aware of people staring at me from the towpath and from the water itself.
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Churchill was acutely aware that Britain was far the weaker of the two allies, both militarily and economically.
also
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Is he also aware that human skills are the major determinant of success or failure?
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He was also aware of a throbbing under his right rib.
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Is he also aware that he has the united resolve of Conservative Members for the speedy passage of his Bill?
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I was also aware that he would probably kill me in an instant if he could.
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But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole.
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She was also aware that there is a ticking clock.
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Is he also aware that there has been considerable disquiet over the proposed amalgamation of the St. Neots and Huntingdon bench?
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But family therapists are also aware how profoundly these swarms of narratives can affect what we see and therefore how we live.
even
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She had not done this deliberately; she was not even aware that she had done it.
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But even aware has its problems.
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Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them.
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Others will be completely amnesic for the entire episode and not even aware that a seizure has occurred.
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I think there is a lot of potential there that they are not even aware of.
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And a staggering 25 % aren't even aware Stamp Duty will eventually have to be paid.
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I was not even aware that, until I had my first bought suit, that flies had been invented!
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The narrator can't be sure but guesses he wasn't even aware of the existence of the flowers.
fully
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They will know the children, and will be fully aware of other aspects of what pupils are learning.
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Without being strident, she is fully aware that she chose to have a child with a parenting man.
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Frequent reviews with the manager and directors take place, so that the teams are fully aware of the Business Unit objectives.
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Jody is fully aware of the dynamic.
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Franco was fully aware of this.
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He warily gazed around at his detractors, fully aware that any slim camaraderie they shared was likely to smolder as well.
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This was, in fact, standard practice and Barratt was fully aware of it.
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Fifth, Dole is fully aware of the fact that presidents can not control judges once they have been confirmed.
increasingly
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He slid on top of Solveig, kissing her, increasingly aware of ripples in her body beneath him.
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But after so many of these experiences, we ought to be becoming increasingly aware of the danger.
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The major political parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, were increasingly aware of the need to compete for working-class support.
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Archaeologists are becoming increasingly aware of the high cost and destructiveness of excavation.
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The Trust has become increasingly aware , as funding becomes available, of the unrivalled educational resource of its properties.
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In the work of both painters one becomes increasingly aware of the fact that they are making use of a variable viewpoint.
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Colleges and Catholic schools at a time when both are increasingly aware of the need to co-operate more closely with each other.
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She was increasingly aware of the way he was holding her.
keenly
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Jacob was keenly aware of that.
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With all of our progress and success, we are keenly aware of the unfinished agenda.
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But he is keenly aware of history.
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Through excellent communication media, they are keenly aware of conditions and events in the outside world.
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Now I was keenly aware of where I ranked in the mile, half-mile and three miles.
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First, he is keenly aware of the assumptions and implications of the work of both Guthrie and Linforth.
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They are often keenly aware of the familial conflict that this produces.
more
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No one is more aware of this than publishers, to the sceptics' fury.
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I am much more aware of oppression and racism now, more socially aware, more into doing things to help people.
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Many secondary pupils are likely to be more aware than younger children of their cultural and religious frames of reference.
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Yet it has made her all the more aware of the power of the public world in the lives of individuals.
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On the contrary, I'd say they are more aware of standards in a productive and hopeful way.
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Machines will never go completely on their own way, but they will become more aware of other machines.
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The adverts are designed to shock abusers and make parents more aware of the dangers.
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He is more aware than anyone of the balancing act he has been trying to perform.
painfully
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I have quoted the passage from which the phrase comes, showing how Wells was painfully aware of our duality.
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I am painfully aware of this fact.
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Chapman was painfully aware that he had underestimated the task at Walsall.
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I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.
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He answered the door himself, and she was painfully aware that once again his eyes seemed to study every part of her.
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As you are painfully aware , when it comes to being handy, I can barely work a shower curtain.
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And as he drew nearer, Cornelius became painfully aware of a curious buzzing sound in his ears.
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Folly was painfully aware that she was acting completely unreasonably.
suddenly
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As Katherine watched them and listened, she was suddenly aware that her father seemed different than he did in New York.
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Converse was suddenly aware that he had stopped sweating.
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There is a gap again because I stopped work, suddenly aware that an alien indignation was invading my soul.
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Instead he seemed rather average, and I was suddenly aware of his increased age.
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He became suddenly aware of a strange, unpleasant smell.
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He cried out, suddenly aware he was in total darkness, the smashing of stone joining the cry.
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Tom was suddenly aware that it was raining, that thin, gray sheets of rain were slapping against the window-panes.
too
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I made my way back to Chelsea only too aware that I had no intention of buying a shop in the terrace.
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I am too aware that that is what I am now, a trespasser out of place and time.
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As a new father I am only too aware of the importance of expert guidance through the first months of parenthood.
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A single kiss never changed the world, and she was all too aware of the reality of the situation.
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If he walked fast he was too aware of trying to distract himself.
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The professionals involved were only too aware that in recalling women for further testing they were likely to cause a panic.
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Educated Protestants were all too aware of the popular ignorance of the basics of theology.
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She had been too aware of him since their first meeting and he knew it.
very
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Rock climbers can become very aware of the living nature of their element.
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The campus is very aware of the dangers.
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I am also very aware that all this is relative.
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They are very aware of their problems.
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Sore experience on the Debenham house made him very aware of how easily original details can be lost in inexpert hands.
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He seems rather to be at once very aware if it and indifferent to it.
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But the scouts were very aware that the fear of war was never far from their minds.
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Something else you become very aware of all over the Basque country is the bracken.
well
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Rostov was well aware of the scandal.
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I am perfectly well aware of that.
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He was well aware that he made young men look badly dressed and ill-mannered.
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Polly was well aware of my interest in the two of them.
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The sepoys must be well aware that the garrison's ammunition was all but finished.
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She'd been well aware that Ruth Russell grudged her every penny.
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The Gascons themselves were well aware that the 1259 treaty had led to an immediate change in their status.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But family therapists are also aware how profoundly these swarms of narratives can affect what we see and therefore how we live.
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Facing him across the bleached wooden plank, Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
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Once it is aware of the adventurers, the Poltergeist will try its best to assault them anywhere within the tower.
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She was aware of a feeling of acute pain; she was in panic; she was terrified that she might scream.
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She was no longer aware of the people around her, only of herself and the storm.
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Television news directors and producers are well aware of this fascination, and almost universally favor the idea of televising actual trials.
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This was, in fact, standard practice and Barratt was fully aware of it.