Example sentences of "feel as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the demand ‘ for every syllable a note ’ was felt as a constraint and only when Byrd for some reason was able to resist it , in his Great Service , does he rise to the heights of the four- and five-part Masses evidently intended for some great Catholic household , and the finest of his motets , in which he reveals his mastery of freely imitative polyphony . |
| 2 | Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight , |
| 3 | At the same time the young scholar 's concern with large aesthetic-cultural questions and his deep interest in Schopenhauer were felt as a stimulus by Wagner himself . |
| 4 | The poem takes its title from a ledge of rock off Cape Ann which acted as a seamark when Eliot , as a boy , used to sail out of Gloucester Harbour , and its first lines evoke the presence of the Mississippi which he had felt as a child in St Louis . |
| 5 | Its use is based on the reflexology principle — that there are specific pressure points on the palms and fingers that relate to different organs in the body : any blockage will be felt as a twinge of discomfort in the hand and can be cleared by applying a little more pressure to the roller at that point . |
| 6 | It is felt as a tussle of will , a powerful urge to transgress standards of thought or behaviour which only a part of us declares as inviolable . |
| 7 | And in the most final sense of all , to be arrested while fighting opposing supporters may be felt as a way of conveying to the management by means of some psychic process the nature of the ‘ really genuine supporter ’ , and the character of his identification . |
| 8 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 9 | The fact that more than five hundred deaf and dumb people , old and no longer able to work , were inmates of workhouses was keenly felt as a blot and the responsibility of the deaf community . |
| 10 | How does it make you feel as a person human consequence . |
| 11 | What did he feel as a man ? |
| 12 | Individuals who could be held responsible for the negligence in question ( for example , if it were an audit , those who were in charge of it , and perhaps the head of the audit function in the firm , and even its managing director ) might still be sued individually ( managing partners may feel as a result that they personally would have little to gain from incorporation ) . |
| 13 | And how do you feel as a consequence ? |
| 14 | Well , I mean I suppose erm I feel as a parent myself that it 's not possible to make tolerable for children a situation which is in fact humanly intolerable . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly , this doctrine has become especially important to those who feel as a matter of Marxist science that the proletariat ought by now to have enacted a revolutionary response to the crises which are seen as always present ; and their failure to do so is therefore commonly explained as an aspect of false consciousness , which prevented them from recognizing their proper historical duty . |
| 16 | Well I , i we feel as a club , sometimes , that our position is being manipulated and distorted . |
| 17 | When your most familiar role models are those of a compliant woman or the ‘ strong , silent type ’ of man you may find it difficult to reconcile these influences with the aggressive determination you feel as a female , or the sensitivity and intuition you experience as a man . |
| 18 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 19 | Swindon 's got a really northern feel as a town and I 'm from the north of England myself . |
| 20 | One knows that disabled people from the War are getting older and there possibly are n't quite so many of them , but we felt as a Trust that there were still a number of people about who would benefit from having this sort of accommodation . |
| 21 | Which of course he could not — not the physical thing ; she knew that what she felt as a warmth of affection was experienced by him as a demand for that . |
| 22 | We asked our principal carers to talk about how they felt as a result of looking after ( or helping to look after ) the dementia sufferer . |
| 23 | It was in thinly populated regions at or beyond the frontiers of settlement overseas , where shifting bodies of labourers were required , that such groups of genuinely unattached and floating individuals made their presence felt as a group , or were at least more ‘ visible ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Despite what I felt as a teenager it has n't put me off marriage , ’ he says . |
| 25 | A degree of light emanated from the silently hurtling water , which she felt as a force urging her forward , as though she were in its grip and swept along with it . |
| 26 | And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . |
| 27 | ‘ Ooooh ! ’ he added with feeling as a bramble raked his shoulder . |
| 28 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 29 | I remember clearly how I used to feel as a child in chapel on Sundays . |