Example sentences of "felt that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it could be shown , for instance , that we know sufficient about the deliberation of legislators , political and judicial , to be assured , for instance , that they were better informed than we are then this might be a reason for giving weight to the content of the law in deciding what is morally right or wrong in areas where we felt that we lacked sufficient knowledge . |
| 2 | I felt that we needed more energy on record . |
| 3 | I can hardly remember the first time I felt that we loved each other . |
| 4 | However we felt that we wanted some feedback from the local membership about what you wanted . |
| 5 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 6 | The threat from the employers was paralleled by that from disgruntled seamen or former agents of the union who felt that they had personal grievances against Wilson or cherished ambitions to establish seamen 's organizations of their own . |
| 7 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 8 | • 53% felt that they had insufficient information on natural childbirth & the use of anaesthetics . |
| 9 | Nearly 40 per cent felt that they needed more information about the problems and background of individual children and about one-quarter would have liked more general information about the child as well as more advice about how they could help to meet the child 's needs . |
| 10 | Mr Ponting 's case for sending the documents was that he felt that they showed that Parliament was being misled and misinformed about the Belgrano affair . |
| 11 | The RHA felt that it had sufficient grounds for proceeding with the initiative , and it was proposed to make ‘ one or more senior appointments … with specific responsibility for coordinating plans and ensuring implementation ’ . |
| 12 | These industrialists welcomed foreign capital , because they felt that it stimulated economic activity in general , from which they could all benefit ( Petras and Cook 1973 ) . |
| 13 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
| 14 | Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities , and during the voting , he held back to see if anybody was left to vote for him . |
| 15 | Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities and during the voting he held back to see if anyone would vote for him . |
| 16 | Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir . |
| 17 | As Macmillan at the time was political adviser to General Alexander whose army occupied that area , many felt that he bore some responsibility . |
| 18 | One felt that he regarded this task , the task of gaining ‘ spiritual freedom ’ , as the supreme , and never quite realizable , end of the religious life , with which no form of humanism could compete . |
| 19 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 20 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |