Example sentences of "felt [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is felt that this approach provides a general procedure having wide applications , instead of producing a very specific " tailor made " system that can only be applied to one company .
2 It was felt that this approach could best be tried out initially in the 1st year undergraduate programme , where a communicatively-based syllabus would give a much-needed new direction to the largely remedial teaching task that lecturers face .
3 I had often felt that this smallholding would be an ideal place to live ; only a mile outside Darrowby , but secluded , and with this heart-lifting vista of river and fell .
4 It was felt that this type of exercise would probably not be repeated for a few years .
5 It was felt that this unit had not met the expectations of the department heads , and some improvements were necessary , without a clear definition of where these might be achieved .
6 It may be felt that this analysis has only theoretical value at most .
7 Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House .
8 As such it is felt that this method could be used as a model for other departmental syllabi .
9 By involving course organisers in the distribution of destinations questionnaires and in the collection of completed questionnaires for despatch to [ MS for analysis and interpretation , it was felt that this mechanism would assist the flow of information .
10 Once again , however , it was felt that this solution was not entirely acceptable since the words degradation and humiliation were lacking in the certainty desirable for criminal legislation .
11 The spokesman continued : ‘ It is felt that this application is in no way connected with the rural brick works industry and is an entirely separate and commercial venture .
12 Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify .
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