Example sentences of "felt they could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because of these expectations about planning that members of the RTO felt they could comfortably cut down on DHA estimates of the revenue required for community services . |
| 2 | The crux of the rows centred around a belief that Sydney Newman , promoted from ITV into a very senior position and given virtual carte blanche to reshape the BBC 's drama output , was carrying out his task by bringing in other friends and associates from ITV in place of BBC staff who felt they could equally rise to the challenges . |
| 3 | But they felt they could n't do it . |
| 4 | But they obviously felt they could n't make too much of an example of him because a lot of people , mainly on Sky TV , had already judged the issue . |
| 5 | Presumably felt they could n't afford |
| 6 | The Fuller family 's neighbours felt they could n't let such an auspicious occasion pass without applying a little bunting to the brickwork . |
| 7 | She continued to attend the unit as an out-patient for more than six months , when the therapists felt they could not make any further progress . |
| 8 | Father Morrow said magistrates told him they had studied the Law Lords ' decision to allow feeding tubes to be removed from Tony and felt they could not serve the summons . |
| 9 | The Americans felt they could not stand by and let Europe fall into economic chaos ; their own economy would also suffer . |
| 10 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |
| 11 | A few years ago , the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors introduced and published this report particularly to assist those buyers who felt they could not afford the fees of a full Structural Survey . |
| 12 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |