adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conscious/deliberate decision (=one that you have thought about clearly)
▪ Belinda had made a conscious decision to have a baby.
a conscious/deliberate effort (=one that you concentrate on in order to achieve something)
▪ He made a conscious effort to become a better person.
a deliberate/conscious act
▪ Clearly this was a deliberate act of vandalism.
a deliberate/conscious attempt
▪ His question was a deliberate attempt to humiliate her.
acutely aware/conscious (of/that)
▪ Students are becoming acutely aware that they need more than just paper qualifications.
intelligent/conscious/rational etc being
▪ a story about alien beings who invade Earth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
acutely
▪ A conveyancer must be acutely conscious of the problems a conflict of interest might impose.
▪ He was at that point of drunkenness where, acutely conscious of it, he made an effort to hide it.
▪ Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face.
▪ We see therefore that the Framers were acutely conscious that the bicameral requirement and the Presentment Clauses would serve essential constitutional functions.
▪ He was acutely conscious of the fact that his life hung on a twitch of his captor's trigger finger.
▪ They are acutely conscious of having failed parental expectations.
▪ Hannah was acutely conscious of Max.
always
▪ Everyone must carry an internal passport, and we were always conscious of security everywhere.
▪ She is not a vain woman, but she is always conscious that others are looking at her.
as
▪ Throughout this book, I have emphasized that we must not think of genes as conscious, purposeful agents.
▪ The psychoanalytic idea of the subject as unconscious, as well as conscious, provides a stronger challenge.
barely
▪ He was still barely conscious and hadn't the energy to be anything but himself.
▪ When I went to collect them, the sheep seemed barely conscious and the men looked like corpses.
▪ I was barely conscious of anything except the will to live.
▪ As she lay there, barely conscious, she heard the sound of a car engine approaching.
▪ The girl was now writhing and moaning faintly, barely conscious of what was happening to her.
environmentally
▪ In these environmentally conscious times, this is an uncomfortable growth industry.
▪ That makes people more environmentally conscious.
▪ The trials and tribulations of dining out, as experienced by an environmentally conscious broadcaster.
▪ It is exactly the kind of thing a truly determined and environmentally conscious government could get on with and do.
fully
▪ Often what needs to be communicated is not fully conscious.
▪ We regard ourselves as being fully conscious then, and modern psychology supports that viewpoint.
▪ For its part, the royal government was fully conscious of its dependence upon the pomeshchiks.
▪ On the other hand, your readers might be bright and fully conscious of what they are reading.
▪ When you fall forward, fully conscious or not, you put out your hands to break your fall.
▪ It can also be argued that as human beings, while engaged in decision-making, we often ignore our fully conscious preferences.
▪ He was awake, fully conscious.
▪ He was fully conscious but his limbs, hands and feet began to carry out movements that were independent of his will.
increasingly
▪ In the mid 1980s she became increasingly conscious of the links between gender and reception.
more
▪ The irregularities of this kind in Braque's work of 1908 are much more conscious and deliberate.
▪ In college I became more conscious of social issues, and that expanded at law school.
▪ We're trying our best to strengthen the family and make men more conscious of women's rights.
▪ Man must exercise his will to become more conscious, in fulfilment of his aim.
▪ The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before.
▪ Never am I more conscious of the tons of water that surround me.
▪ Sometimes the message has been much more subtle and capable of reinterpretation in a later and more conscious age.
▪ Both are becoming more conscious of the cost of capital and the need to use finance profitably.
politically
▪ The majority of the electorate are only marginally politically conscious, and the personalisation of political issues and allegiances reflect this marginality.
▪ It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.
socially
▪ Some, like the Body Shop or Ben and Jerry's are obviously driven by socially conscious entrepreneurs.
▪ Government traders could have been mistaken for socially conscious East Coast WASPs, had they only been a bit more repressed.
▪ Tomorrow, she realised, she would be socially conscious again.
▪ Even the socially conscious Victorians allow their principles to waver on this question.
too
▪ She was too conscious of Piers lounging in the chair opposite her to relax.
▪ Neither should the inspector be too conscious of personal dignity.
very
▪ As he spoke I was very conscious of the smile which transformed his usually impassive face.
▪ But it is undeniable that the most effective institutions of those sorts are very conscious of their markets.
▪ He rested his eyes on her, very conscious of the smooth skin and her flowery perfume.
▪ Watch him with other people and be very conscious of his behavior patterns.
▪ Janet becomes a Tory, while Miranda grows up to be a very conscious feminist.
▪ Steven was always very conscious of his appearance, and she encouraged him to dress well.
▪ Perhaps West who had been very conscious of social needs, had had an influence on his thoughts on such matters.
▪ I became very conscious that I must cover my chest.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ In both examples, a conscious attempt has been made-to segment the market. 11.
▪ It is squarely in the scientific tradition and is a conscious attempt to apply scientific method to international relations.
▪ But any conscious attempt to disregard this proportionality would inflict unnecessary losses and suffering.
awareness
▪ Without it, we would not have any conscious awareness.
▪ What on earth does any of this have to do with our feelings of conscious awareness?
▪ I had no conscious awareness of the Latin root of the name Hilary until Antonia Byatt pointed it out to me.
▪ Let me emphasize here that functionalists are happy to accept that many of our mental states are associated with conscious awareness.
▪ An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
▪ Attention is the focusing of conscious awareness.
being
▪ One major distinguishing feature between all conscious beings is the eyes.
▪ For nothing can be called intrinsically valuable unless it is actually valued by some conscious being.
choice
▪ She reflected how different her life had become, by her own conscious choice.
▪ This action continues quite mechanically all the time, and entirely without our conscious choice or volition.
▪ But these should occur as a result of tradition or of conscious choice rather than of necessity.
▪ It was as independent of will and conscious choice as any other form of socially conditioned conduct.
▪ But not all the people involved have made a conscious choice to create this unit.
▪ It was not a conscious choice to retreat from public life into a private world.
control
▪ In allowing life to grow in the womb, a woman is partly handing over to powers outside her conscious control.
▪ All Saunders' finely crafted drawings, in fact, suggest speed and fluidity and an abandonment of conscious control.
▪ This is our first error: conscious control over behaviour is generally overstated.
▪ At the most profound, over which we had no conscious control, we were ideally suited and at peace.
▪ These aspects of language performance are more under conscious control than are aspects of sentence structure and morphology.
▪ Patients with complete supraconal lesions lose conscious control of defecation.
▪ In time, Alexander will be recognized as a pioneer worker in establishing the conscious control of the use of the self.
▪ Dreams happen to us, rather than being a product of conscious control, as fantasies are.
decision
▪ It's a conscious decision and I think it's important that men understand a woman who is offering an alternative lifestyle.
▪ I made a conscious decision to do more than persevere in the remaining years I have with my voice.
▪ In reality, of course, they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making.
▪ When you make a conscious decision, it is done in the summit of the brain.
▪ There has obviously been a conscious decision and determination on his part to make his life a fulfilment of prophetic utterance.
▪ Once you've made a conscious decision to move you become more aware.
▪ If a request is made to exceed the limit a conscious decision needs to be made.
▪ It has to be designed or thought out carefully so that conscious decisions can be made about it.
effort
▪ What varies, and varies dramatically, is the conscious effort with which they are identified and undertaken.
▪ At each juncture, there is a breakdown in attention because the work requires sustained conscious effort.
▪ This requires a conscious effort, because it is clear that discrimination is more often unintentional than intentional.
▪ Accepting our human limitations in these high-pressure times, though, takes conscious effort.
▪ Make a conscious effort to drink less tea and coffee - about one or two cups per day.
▪ To break out of its solitude, it has had to make frequent and conscious efforts.
▪ You're having to make a conscious effort to be detached, aren't you?
▪ Making no conscious effort to save or throw away old tickets, they become collectors.
experience
▪ This interpretation in no way diminishes the enigma of the relationship between electrochemical events in the nervous system and conscious experiences.
▪ Such goods entail the existence of consciousness, so they must relate to conscious experience in some way.
▪ In other words, the emergence of conscious experience depends only on an appropriate functional structure.
▪ Perhaps the particular potentials he is recording are not causally linked with the conscious experiences he is investigating?
▪ It is a conscious experience of the door, the door, the door, the door.
▪ There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
intention
▪ It is a linking of the intangible with the tangible, which can only come about through conscious intention.
▪ It is assisted by conscious intention on our part to recover balance and vibrant health.
▪ Without conscious intention, I took her in my arms and kissed her.
▪ She may be surprised, disconcerted; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man.
level
▪ At the discussions, time is given to cause and effect, but this is mainly at a conscious level.
▪ On a conscious level, the evilness of stepmother and stepsisters is sufficient explanation for what happens to Cinderella.
▪ Unlike sleep, rest does not involve an alteration in conscious level.
▪ The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance.
▪ If the conscious level of the patient is affected - drowsiness, confusion, lethargy and unresponsiveness.
▪ Some of us disown these qualities on a conscious level, and project them on to some one else.
▪ All of the beliefs and thoughts which create our reality are now accessible at a conscious level.
mind
▪ The Alexander Technique is a way of directing our conscious minds in order to be more in the present moment.
▪ The coding process begins while en route between the retina and our conscious mind.
▪ Now when you go to sleep it is only the conscious mind which shuts down; the subconscious can not do so.
▪ Spirituality to me is a conscious mind.
▪ You actually see far more than is registered in your conscious mind - and this is probably a good thing.
▪ They sometimes act as a source of strength and insight not available to the conscious mind.
▪ The Ego was designed as a mere postal service which delivers messages to our conscious mind.
▪ Some of these will be working in his conscious mind right away; others will stimulate processes in his unconscious.
self
▪ With his conscious self, Lewis had a very distinct loathing of Ulster Protestantism.
thought
▪ Some visions develop more deliberately, through controlled conscious thought.
▪ They seem to know that conscious thought must be held in abeyance.
▪ Yet the brain is not limited to conscious thought.
▪ There has been no conscious thought or plan.
▪ Some relationships drift into dependency and caring without much conscious thought.
▪ Laura's last conscious thought was that she would have no trouble in sleeping for a week.
▪ She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle, and never devoted any conscious thought to him.
▪ Long before there was any conscious thought of unity, there was shared experience.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dylan's latest record is a conscious attempt to break away from his old image and try out a new style.
▪ Francis was found in the car's trunk, covered in blood but conscious.
▪ Frank was found lying beside the road, covered in blood but still conscious.
▪ Julia made a conscious effort to appear unconcerned, even though she was very upset.
▪ The man was so drunk that he was barely conscious.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But these should occur as a result of tradition or of conscious choice rather than of necessity.
▪ He would have become conscious of it and put it away, but he didn't.
▪ I began to be conscious even of the kidney shape.
▪ I could have wished she was conscious.
▪ It is widely agreed that interests can only meaningfully be attributed to beings which are, or have been, conscious.
▪ It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.
▪ Perhaps West who had been very conscious of social needs, had had an influence on his thoughts on such matters.
▪ She was conscious, but could not speak because of the gash at her throat.