Example sentences of "we feel [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We feel that this video can make a positive contribution to these aims . |
| 2 | Er it 's never been the County Council 's er objective or intention to restrain what are the genuine er employment needs of its local residents , erm and we feel that this level of allocation is suited to the needs of the residents . |
| 3 | In view of the relationship between occupational pension schemes , particularly contracted-out final salary schemes , and the State scheme , we feel that this uncertainty is likely to continue since the Government has made no indication that State pension ages will be equalised . |
| 4 | The letter concludes : ’ We feel that this situation would not have arisen if ERCs were not included in health authority budgets . |
| 5 | We felt that this study was weak . |
| 6 | Some of us felt that more attention could be paid to this aspect , particularly in order to obtain a greater economic return for the heavy expenditure on government assistance . |
| 7 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |