Example sentences of "it felt [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt that this was wrong and there was a danger in an over-reliance on voluntary effort . |
| 2 | Almost certainly it felt that its position was still too weak . |
| 3 | Richmond bureau was prompted into this action when it felt that it was losing advice workers because of the tensions involved in the work and because insufficient support was given to alleviate it . |
| 4 | It felt that the date for the block plan could be retained , but the time for the two office designs should be extended to spring 1858 . |
| 5 | For example the centre could facilitate research in the areas where it felt that development , change and adoption of new techniques was required . |
| 6 | The discussion was not conclusive but views were expressed that , while there was no such obligation on the Central Authority , if it felt that good grounds existed for an appeal , it could properly act . |
| 7 | Accordingly it felt that the minister 's affidavit opposing discovery must be accepted as final and conclusive . |
| 8 | The Arts Council gave a substantial grant to this scheme as it felt that it emphasised artists ‘ opportunities and practice , rather than the institution and its curatorial staff . |
| 9 | The Group did not support the informal suggestions put forward by Staff Side Whitley that a ) there should be a ‘ Whitley ’ representative on the Group — it felt that this function could be adequately provided by more frequent , regular and open meetings of the Computer Users Group . |
| 10 | Civic Forum and PAV leaders expressed a wish to include Jan Carnogursky , Deputy Premier in the outgoing government and a leading figure in the CDM , but the CDM initially refused to join the government because it felt that the poor showing of the CDU/CDM in the elections would prevent the implementation of anything in its programme . |
| 11 | And then I was called in and nothing was ever said ‘ Well do this because ’ , but it felt that ‘ if you do n't do this … you know ? ’ |
| 12 | It felt as though someone was pulling my lifeline away from me and I was flailing around , trying to grab hold of it . |
| 13 | Now that she was back in one , it felt as though she 'd never been outside . |
| 14 | It felt as though he had been fed through a mincing machine . |
| 15 | After a countdown from Jeff Banks , thousands of visitors rushed into the hall — it felt as though they were ALL at our stand ! |
| 16 | It felt as though anti-racism had become an important issue over a period of just one year . |
| 17 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 18 | It felt as though the tree he was sitting in and the green leaves all around him belonged to another world altogether and that he was a trespasser who had no right to be where he was . |
| 19 | It felt as though a grenade had gone off in my head . |
| 20 | It felt as though our contact with the outside world had closed away from us again . |
| 21 | So coming here it felt as though we 'd uprooted and , they would never get their roots down because they were n't really |
| 22 | She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out . |
| 23 | ‘ You heard me say how it felt as though I were in a bad dream , unable to wake . |
| 24 | And four and a quarter hours later , when it actually was four , and the bedclothes both above and below were a mere conglomerate heap , and Tessa 's strapping behind had pushed right across the bed , and Bob was cold and stiff from head to foot , and had been neither asleep nor awake for a moment , it felt as though the solar system had finally run down and stopped , and closed off the ever-renewing spring of pure , fresh time for good and all . |
| 25 | Already it felt as though the earth would never warm again . |
| 26 | She tells me it felt as though she was living in a violent void , that she was losing touch with everything until … ’ |
| 27 | Then it felt as though the world was sliding inside-out as , slowly , noiselessly , a panel swivelled in her mind . |
| 28 | It felt as though the whole local aristocracy was towering over him . |
| 29 | But he did not touch her , though it felt as though he had , as his hand curved round the outline of her breast . |
| 30 | It felt as though she 'd drifted into some dreamlike watery paradise . |