Example sentences of "a feeling [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , was there not a feeling that , first through illness and then through his premature demise , he had been supplanted in his rights ( through ‘ natural ’ causation , we emphasise ) , much as Jacob supplanted Esau 's rights so many centuries ago ( through devious schemes ) . |
| 2 | I have in my memory a feeling that we had satisfied ourselves that international law would be obeyed . ’ |
| 3 | Once you get working with industry , there 's a feeling that industry must pay for everything . |
| 4 | This year 's talks come in the wake of a regeneration among unions and a feeling that industrial action — following the rail strikes early in the summer — can pay . |
| 5 | Concern about our motives in doing the research was combined with a feeling that it would do those participating in it little good , but would certainly benefit those in the police management and outside who wanted to do them harm . |
| 6 | I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again . |
| 7 | He had a feeling that the Archbishop of Canterbury was now too powerful in the Church ; that he and the other bishops were more like sheep as they sat saying yes to what Canterbury suggested . |
| 8 | The mobilizing style has a greater appeal when there is dissatisfaction with the status quo and a feeling that new policies are required . |
| 9 | There is a feeling that if the wording were changed to ‘ seeking to interfere with play ’ it would spare the player who is in an offside position but making a genuine attempt to stay onside by , for example , running back towards the halfway line . |
| 10 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 11 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 12 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 13 | Whether or not they support Saddam Hussein 's call for a holy war , there is a feeling that Islam should be solid for Iraq . |
| 14 | The trick is to find a way of giving the Europeans enough of a feeling that they can pursue security policies of their own without at the same time forming a European defence association that would drive the Americans away . |
| 15 | A feeling that I was horribly conspicuous made me wish to hide myself . |
| 16 | At team meetings anyone was welcome to have his say , thereby building cohesion and a feeling that everyone belonged to the unit . |
| 17 | Now , increasingly , there is a feeling that things are hopelessly out of control . |
| 18 | Aunt Louise greeted me with a kiss , and there was a feeling that I was the guest of some great lady in exile . |
| 19 | Nor could I shake off a feeling that Aunt Louise was sitting beside me , enjoying it too . |
| 20 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 21 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 22 | I 've got a feeling that the Author is waiting all the time in that house in the woods for His own character to turn up . ’ |
| 23 | There was a feeling that something was in the air , that it was the lull before the storm . |
| 24 | This is an extension of ‘ Did I really hear it right ? ’ but moves on from there , to a feeling that unless they see the evidence then they ca n't or wo n't believe it . |
| 25 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 26 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 27 | I have a feeling that this will be our last meeting . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I accept partial blame but I have a feeling that history will treat me kindly because there was nothing wrong with my basic thesis . |
| 29 | This weekend it is possible to sense a feeling that they can do no more . |
| 30 | There would be suspicions among Unionists of a Labour government 's agenda and a feeling that the Nationalist SDLP would be given too much influence . |