Example sentences of "feel themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the Suez débâcle in the autumn of 1956 , British governments had felt themselves able to dictate the pace at which the colonial Empire would be transformed into a cohesive Commonwealth of Nations : after Suez the imperial ethos was shattered , and our run down to middle-power status was no longer resisted . |
| 2 | And when they brew , they fell trees for their fuel in the woods of the good people without leave , to wit , oaks , maples , hazels and thorns , felling the best first , whereby the good people feel themselves aggrieved on account of the destruction of their woods . |
| 3 | Cameron and Menzies felt themselves half-lifted inside by the arms . |
| 4 | After so long of acquiescence , the Welsh felt themselves Welsh again , a nation with a prince and a prophet of their own . |
| 5 | Under those circumstances , foreign aid agencies saw a vacuum which they felt themselves able to fill . |
| 6 | Indeed the Committee even extended this logic to a position whereby they felt themselves able to justify the decriminalisation of adult homosexual behaviour in private as a form of protection for the young : |
| 7 | But however enthusiastically they cultivated this aura , Australians were bound to feel themselves second-class citizens . |
| 8 | … We are now organising the aggregate will of the people … a will to feel themselves independent . ’ |
| 9 | The public are respectfully informed , that the Committee appointed by the Odiham Agriculture Society to consider the best method of improving the Art commonly called Farriery , have , in pursuance of that design , and feeling themselves unable to act with due energy and effect in the capacity of a Committee , found it expedient to detach themselves from that respectable Society , and to erect themselves into the present form . |
| 10 | In the harsh climate in which we live it is perhaps too much to hope that editors , no doubt feeling themselves lucky to employed at all , will rise up against their own management to resist this dictate . |