Example sentences of "they felt [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 They felt that a low status job of that kind was unfair to the family as a whole and would be unhelpful in his search for a permanent one .
2 They felt that a much truer picture of people 's lives could be obtained by these methods of data collection than by the more formal survey , though they knew full well that all methods had something to contribute to sociological understanding .
3 They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs .
4 They felt that a number of questions about the random nature of intervention by artists should be posed before embarking on such a strategy .
5 Many teachers , I have found , can remember from their own schooldays the shock and guilt they felt when a teacher finally broke down in the face of what , to the class , had seemed to be ‘ just having a bit of fun ’ .
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