Example sentences of "felt to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather it was the whole ethos of the monarchy which was felt to be dowdy and second-rate . |
| 2 | Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data . |
| 3 | Only exceptional damp , unusual cold , excessive rot , and decrepitude to the point of collapse are felt to be legitimate subjects of discussion . |
| 4 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 5 | Suggested Compromises : The Purchaser to have the right of rescission for breaches which are ‘ so material ’ that they effectively change the nature of what the Purchaser thought it was acquiring ; any such compromise should ideally specify the measure of materiality either by reference to a specific amount of money or a percentage of the value of the business to be acquired although this may be felt to be impossible to quantify ; or |
| 6 | Parents should be given the power to vote on the removal of individual governors if their conduct was felt to be unsatisfactory , Mr Smith suggested . |
| 7 | Yet again , the optimal solution may be felt to be unsatisfactory and further reflection reveal that the reason for this is that some aspect of the problem has not been modelled adequately . |
| 8 | A leaflet headed The Case for Charging Full Cost Fees , with the sub-heading Why this is felt to be necessary , has been dished out at the party political conferences . |
| 9 | The Council will also have to keep the curriculum under review and promote change where this is felt to be necessary . |
| 10 | While for elementary pupils the object was to instil a feeling for the grandeur of the national language and literature , within the higher sector it was felt to be necessary to fire the pupils ' and students ' imaginations : to provide indirect moral inculcation through pleasurable and even joyous responses to literary values . |
| 11 | The inspection is thorough ; it excludes only a structural survey , unless this is subsequently felt to be necessary because of apparent defects . |
| 12 | Although the MECs are often influential bodies and have a valuable information role , they are not typically felt to be good decision-making bodies enabling doctors to make prompt and positive contributions to management . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But though the extent of what was thus known was very great it was not felt to be unbounded . |
| 15 | Mr Scott 's second suggestion , b ) , that the Garden should create and staff a new post of Computer Manager , was felt to be unnecessary at present , since the Computer Support Officer is the person who will be carrying out most of the tasks outlined by Mr Scott . |
| 16 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 17 | An orthodox man is not allowed to hear a woman singing as this is felt to be seductive . |
| 18 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) . |
| 21 | The need is real , or certainly felt to be real , and the complaints are understandable . |
| 22 | Apart from whether or not these exercises are effective ( they are certainly found to be enjoyable and relaxing by many pupils ) , they have given the teacher a secure base from which to work , for the teacher can be very much in charge , dictating the choice of exercise , controlling the length of time for each , selecting the background music where felt to be appropriate or even dictating the moment-to-moment activity within the experience . |
| 23 | One difficulty is that whereas in London , London English is felt to be appropriate in nearly all situations , Creole is appropriate only in some of these . |
| 24 | American policy was already characterised by the traits that existed to 25 June 1950 : it was felt to be undesirable that the Soviet Union should incorporate Korea within her sphere of interest yet there was little inclination in Washington to commit the United States deeply to supporting whatever kind of government emerged in the south . |
| 25 | Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right . |
| 26 | She said the TEC could offer disabled trainees help with loan of equipment , or could extend the tuition period if that was felt to be useful . |
| 27 | There was no time to write a libretto from scratch , so Guardasoni proposed an adaptation of Metastasio 's La clemenza di Tito ( the Clemency of Titus ) which was generally felt to be suitable for the occasion . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , different viewpoints have emerged over the range of activities which can be justified under the name of academic freedom , over the kinds of threat which are most felt to be present , over the circumstances in which appeal can be made to academic freedom , and over the justifications which academics employ to claim a right to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |
| 29 | As a result of strong growth , firms hope to become sufficiently large to make a " name " and thus attract new issuers and build placing power , an objective that may be felt to be consistent with long term profit maximisation . |
| 30 | Since older samples of growing grass will contain senescent material it was felt to be worthwhile measuring the samples at various times after cutting and even after artificial drying . |