Example sentences of "[was/were] that [pers pn] feel " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common response was that they felt better able to empathise with their patients and clients and understand the social and psychological implications of disability . |
| 2 | Indeed , a recurrent theme among these women was that they felt they had no right to benefit , that they were getting something for nothing , in marked contrast to a wage . |
| 3 | So it will not do to say that the reason why the Government found it necessary to curtail debate on the Bill was that they felt that there would be massive opposition to it . |
| 4 | What happened to us in our seven years at the grammar school was that we felt safe and we felt encouraged . |
| 5 | And our feeling , if if my memory serves me right , was that we felt that our site safety courses were adequate and gave |
| 6 | Caroline 's problem was that she felt quite unable to make decisions . |
| 7 | The reason she gave for this was that she felt that experiencing repeated failure was bad for pupils . |
| 8 | The very reason she had applied to the shipping company for a job was that she felt she needed a complete break , a change of scene . |
| 9 | Indeed , why it was that she felt so breathless now . |
| 10 | The real reason was that he felt at ease ; he was no longer a figure of fun or an eyesore , he had a place — just as he did at first with Sien . |
| 11 | Mr Hakim 's main reason for leaving was that he felt Robson Rhodes ' drive to concentrate on upmarket accounts meant that he was losing personal contact with many of his smaller clients . |
| 12 | His wife was ill , very ill , and what made it even worse was that he felt responsible for her illness . |
| 13 | And this — ’ he moved his arm slowly to the side as he was about to add , ‘ This is going to be your grave , ’ but he stopped , for two reasons ; the words sounded melodramatic , like those that might be used in an amateur play , and this was no amateur play ; the second reason was that he felt sick . |
| 14 | But the main reason for his slowness in composing it was that he felt obliged to take on what he called " odd jobs " . |
| 15 | Mr Ponting 's case for sending the documents was that he felt that they showed that Parliament was being misled and misinformed about the Belgrano affair . |
| 16 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 17 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 18 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 19 | All I knew was that I felt married to him . |
| 20 | All I knew was that I felt biased towards having it . |
| 21 | But the main reason for quitting was that I felt stale , burnt-out . |
| 22 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 23 | Michael Stewart 's first comment on the interior was that it felt like being in an aircraft cockpit . |