Example sentences of "it be felt to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the issue has not been discussed because it is felt to be too painful to talk about or because it is considered an unsuitable topic of conversation , then there may be problems . |
| 2 | All that is required must be offered and , if it is not all , it is felt to be useless . |
| 3 | In many situations it is felt to be inappropriate to worship God without an organ . |
| 4 | Where it is felt to be important , information on number can therefore be encoded lexically . |
| 5 | The former could cover all cases but it is felt to be more appropriate to use fairness in the context of , for example , company inspectors , or immigration officers . |
| 6 | A room which is thoroughly comfortable when it is felt to be simply " untidy " becomes uninhabitable as soon as it is perceived as " dirty " . |
| 7 | Now , clearly , in many circumstances where the property of an adjective matches a speaker 's perception , it may not need to be assigned — i.e. stated explicitly to be valid for the entity concerned — on the grounds that it is felt to be a characteristic sufficiently basic to the entity not to need assignment , as opposed to being called upon as an initial qualifying and identifying element . |
| 8 | It was true that in the 1880s youth work had meant philanthropy and religion , whereas in the 1900s it was felt to be the responsibility of local education authorities , juvenile employment committees , after-care committees and part-time day continuation classes in liberal and vocational studies . |
| 9 | This investigation indicated that , although the potential existed for use of such systems by the departments , at that time the costs were high and there was a general lack of standards and a limited amount of expertise available , and it was felt to be unwise to consider any major capital investment . |
| 10 | The major exception is the ubiquitous iron knife , perhaps so common and such a personal item that it was felt to be expendable . |
| 11 | Mm , mm , we might even manage , I mean , we , we might talk later on about this , but , perhaps you know have two or three people working on a campaign if , if , if , if it was felt to be better that way , mm , mm . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lyons agreed to run a tea pavilion at the Newcastle jubilee exhibition of 1887 , and to use his name , because it was felt to be beneath the dignity of the Salmon and Gluckstein families to go into catering . |
| 15 | It was felt to be important that these main classes should be selected on the basis of a theory or set of principles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |