Sentence examples for recognise a thing from inspiring English sources

To get a (non-walking) PR2 simply to recognise a thing that needs picking up still takes a lot of work.

After 109 years of championship cricket at Scarborough the locals recognise a good thing, especially if it's free.

"I couldn't recognise a single thing; my mother hadn't known how totally it was destroyed and rebuilt after the war.

It may be that Gardiner, who imagines Bach constructing a graduated stairway that ascends from earth to heaven, doesn't recognise such a thing as non-sacred music.

That logo was designed to fit in with the mock-biblical tone of the song Let There Be Rock (and was first used on the cover of the album of the same name), but the band clearly recognised a good thing when they saw it: although it was dropped for Let There Be Rock's successor, Powerage, it's been on every AC/DC album since.

Yet it is one thing to recognise a problem, and quite another to do something about it.

With America and most EU countries lining up to recognise a new Kosovo, the last thing its leaders will want is to see their moment of glory marred by scenes of Serbs in flight.

I know they're trying to get asexuality recognised as a thing and all that, but is there a chance that maybe you're just not comfortable with yourself?

Orwell would have recognised a lot of things from his dystopia in our world – not just the lottery, but the loss of privacy through intruding technology, the degradation of language, the waging of proxy wars by superpowers, the disappearance and sequestration of political dissidents.

Yet if it had a prettier name (and a bigger price-tag) we would recognise cabbage as a thing of wonder.

Although monoglotism in young children continues, life-long monoglotism in Welsh is recognised to be a thing of the past.