Example sentences of "of [noun] but feel " in BNC.
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| 1 | These moral issues , which troubled those who wished to enjoy the company of animals but felt they had to judge them on a set of human values , have caused less concern in recent years . |
| 2 | Leavis did n't understand the second law of thermodynamics but felt this was quite irrelevant to ‘ culture ’ . |
| 3 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 4 | Hobhouse ‘ presented a kind of fusion of Spencer and Green ’ insofar as he believed in the scientific importance of the idea of evolution but felt that the most highly evolved society is one ‘ in which the efforts of its members are most completely coordinated to common ends , in which discord is most fully subdued to harmony . ’ |
| 5 | Pro-choice groups were in favour of a liberalization of abortion but felt that the distinction being made between the mother 's health and her life was invidious . |