Example sentences of "[am/are] felt to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sufferings of the young when first they go away from home and try to hold their own with cruel contemporaries are felt to be very great even when they are not . |
| 2 | The poignancy of the situation is increased because love and longing themselves are felt to be so close to aggression . |
| 3 | The kudos of the job , the implied associations and the admiration of others are felt to be more than enough compensation . |
| 4 | The extent to which they are felt to be a big deal for the pupils will mirror the extent to which they are felt to be a big deal by their teachers . |
| 5 | The extent to which they are felt to be a big deal for the pupils will mirror the extent to which they are felt to be a big deal by their teachers . |
| 6 | For many people a prime symptom of stress is loss of their sense of humour : playfulness is replaced by earnestness or snappiness ; casual jokes that one would normally return in good spirit are felt to be wounding and hurtful . |
| 7 | Only exceptional damp , unusual cold , excessive rot , and decrepitude to the point of collapse are felt to be legitimate subjects of discussion . |
| 8 | June and July are felt to be the best months for climbing , though the weather in August is still good enough . |
| 9 | One of the strengths of this approach is that it becomes much more immediately apparent why certain issues are felt to be important . |
| 10 | It might also provide a means of distinguishing fragments of discourse which are felt to be good , coherent , examples of English from those that are , intuitively , incoherent concatenations of sentences . |
| 11 | One possible answer is that in periods of structural change major upheavals and dislocation are felt — a crisis is obvious — whereas in the intervening years changes occur smoothly and are felt to be less dramatic . |
| 12 | Languages which have morphological resources for expressing a certain category such as number , tense , or gender , have to express these categories regularly ; those which do not have morphological resources for expressing the same categories do not have to express them except when they are felt to be relevant . |
| 13 | Health authorities and local authorities are sometimes willing to pay high prices to buy care for those one or two individuals who are felt to be unmanageable in their own services . |
| 14 | Anger and Resentment : Again these are felt to be justified but they are spiritual poisons nonetheless and they destroy the emotional life of the family member . |
| 15 | This leads inevitably to great simplification or stylization , and , at the same time , to a clarification and accentuation of what are felt to be the significant features or details of the object depicted . |
| 16 | With us privacy and kinship are felt to be roughly coterminous . |
| 17 | You can use the program to create a personal history of problems that are felt to be related to certain substances . |
| 18 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |