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aware
01. Were you [aware] that your husband was having an affair with his secretary?
02. The death of a young boy in a bicycling accident, though tragic, has nonetheless helped to raise the public's [awareness] of the importance of wearing a helmet.
03. Are you [aware] that you must get a mark of 80% in order to pass to the next level?
04. Police are putting out road blocks every night during the holidays in order to raise [awareness] of the dangers of drinking and driving.
05. The old man suddenly became [aware] that someone was trying to open his bedroom window.
06. Teenagers today are much more [aware] of the dangers of smoking than they were when my mother was young.
07. People today are more [aware] of abuse in the family because it is talked about more openly.
08. Emily Post once said that good manners are a sensitive [awareness] of the feelings of others.
09. Abraham Maslow observed that what is necessary to change a person is to change his [awareness] of himself.
10. Are you [aware] that if you continue to hand your assignments in late, you risk failing the course?
11. A Yemeni proverb notes that a mule driver is not [aware] of the stink of his animals.
12. Despite the fact that we are no longer consciously [aware] of the external world during sleep, our minds continue to actively process information.
13. She was [unaware] of the problem until it was too late.
14. The President was as yet [unaware] of the Foreign Minister's comments at the time of the press conference.
15. The old woman was asleep so she was [unaware] of her family's presence in her hospital room.
16. The Opposition were caught [unawares] by the government's sudden election call.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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