Example sentences of "the [noun] feel they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I was prepared to set aside time at a future meeting for full discussion , but the clubs felt they did n't want to even talk about the issue any further . |
| 2 | It probably was n't practical to rig up a short tape belay and , in any case , the climbers felt they were down , with the climbing virtually finished . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in . |
| 5 | Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in . |
| 6 | The Cambodians felt they would prefer to have an exhibition in Australia first , therefore we had to bring the date of the exhibition forward ’ . |
| 7 | Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If hysterectomy does change bowel function it seems likely from our data that the primary problem is in the act of defecation rather than in colonic function , as there was little or no change in stool form yet half the subjects felt they were prone to constipation and a quarter strained with every recorded defecation . |
| 10 | For them , the use of the term ‘ British ’ as a synonym for ‘ English ’ is an insult , a fact that English Conservatives sometimes overlook : introducing the poll tax a year early in Scotland was probably the worst blow to British unity in recent years , for it made the Scots feel they were being treated like second-class citizens . |
| 11 | Some of the Scots feel they 're living in a colony . |
| 12 | The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women . |
| 13 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 14 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 15 | Whatever the Communists felt they kept to themselves . |
| 16 | But if the problems are acute , and the parents feel they are unable to cope , foster or home arrangements can be organised . |
| 17 | Support continues for as long as the parents feel they need it , and is renewed , if they wish , if and when the mother becomes pregnant again . |
| 18 | It was also that free admission was part of the great Victorian philanthropic tradition , part of the vision of Britain which the Establishment felt they were called to safeguard . |
| 19 | It made the team feel they had regained some control over this area of work , and by focusing in such detail , highlighted its importance and the skills involved in investigations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was no government policy to fundamentally tackle unemployment and seen against that background , many at the meeting felt they were playing a game . |
| 22 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 23 | The officers felt they should ring the other school to check her story . |
| 24 | LEVELS OF radioactive dust found in a home near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria were so high that the owners felt they had to move their two young sons to safety immediately , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 25 | Table 20 indicates the jobs that the wives felt they could take over in addition to their present domestic and farm situation . |
| 26 | However , the authority felt them to be impractical to implement because of the assumptions about resources . |
| 27 | There were a lot of plants and the cats felt they were in a jungle of their own in the hall . |
| 28 | In many libraries there is some tension between what users want ( or say they want , or think they want ) and what the librarian feels they need . |
| 29 | An English school lunch , in surroundings far removed from any Russian orphanage , emphasised an obvious culture shock , but the staff felt they had had to offer their help . |
| 30 | The Americans felt they could not stand by and let Europe fall into economic chaos ; their own economy would also suffer . |