Example sentences of "felt it necessary " in BNC.

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1 ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! )
2 I have not felt it necessary to examine the detailed facts of all the earlier decisions or to consider whether the decisions themselves could or could not be supported .
3 After all , the government itself has felt it necessary to set up an agency simply to find fathers who want to spend no time at all with their families .
4 I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me .
5 More urgent was the need to find out why Piper had felt it necessary to shut down the neural net like this .
6 And why , he wondered , had he felt it necessary to wash .
7 Dave had had just the right amount of drink , he had n't been tempted to display his superior knowledge in argument ; he had n't produced any slanderous gossip , he had n't felt it necessary to demonstrate his virility by being overattentive to someone else 's wife .
8 ‘ Yes , I will , because , as you 've felt it necessary to keep reminding me , tomorrow is your first day in a new job , and because I can wait , now that I 'm sure of you .
9 Shannon managed to smile , wondering why Josh had felt it necessary to explain .
10 Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has .
11 If the Leader of the House had had the foresight in those early days to see the merit in that legislation , he would not have felt it necessary tonight to move a savage guillotine motion to curtail debate on the measure .
12 And in particular , she did not like at all that he had felt it necessary to give Lubor the instructions he had about her .
13 We must acknowledge that people affected by the virus have felt it necessary to leave their communities here in Gwynedd to seek diagnosis , support and care elsewhere . ’
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