Example sentences of "[noun] felt they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 2 | Eleanor felt they were the funniest letters she 'd ever written ; Nigel brought out the best in her writing . |
| 3 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 4 | If hysterectomy does change bowel function it seems likely from our data that the primary problem is in the act of defecation rather than in colonic function , as there was little or no change in stool form yet half the subjects felt they were prone to constipation and a quarter strained with every recorded defecation . |
| 5 | Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision . |
| 6 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 7 | It was because of these expectations about planning that members of the RTO felt they could comfortably cut down on DHA estimates of the revenue required for community services . |
| 8 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 9 | The subject under scrutiny in the 1990/91 survey was exporting to Japan and in particular the barriers that companies felt they faced in either entering the Japanese market or expanding their level of existing business . |
| 10 | England felt they suffered again yesterday . |
| 11 | England felt they suffered again yesterday . |
| 12 | Many Iraqis felt they had paid a heavy price for progress — the country was run by a tightly-knit group of military men who in the name of the Baath ( Resurrection ) Party suppressed all opposition . |
| 13 | The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women . |
| 14 | If these countries felt they were being exploited by having to run a surplus and thus provide finance for the US deficit , such behaviour would be quite incomprehensible . |
| 15 | The most worrying aspect of all , for Corby , however , was that many parents felt they were kept in the dark about what was happening , so that while there were exceptions , and in some cases social workers had gone to great lengths to explain the system and the likely outcomes , in two cases the parents were not aware until later in the process that they and their children were the subjects of child abuse investigations . |
| 16 | Holman stresses that lack of contact did not necessarily reflect parental wishes ( in fact nearly half of the parents wanted their children back ) , but parents felt they were being tacitly excluded by the agency . |
| 17 | I was being crushed at the sides but my feet felt they were being pulled . ’ |
| 18 | Whatever the Communists felt they kept to themselves . |
| 19 | Nigel felt they were close for a few moments before the customary iciness set in . |
| 20 | Dealers felt they could be choosy , passing several highly touted lots , including a Louis XIV Boulle marquetry writing table ( which some believed to have been extensively altered ) , unsold at $325,000 ( est. $400–600,000 ) and a set of four Louis XVI ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry cabinets ( est. $400–600,000 ) which failed at $250,000 . |
| 21 | She continued to attend the unit as an out-patient for more than six months , when the therapists felt they could not make any further progress . |
| 22 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |
| 23 | She smiled at Carrie , her eyes so bright , suddenly , that Carrie felt they saw straight into her mind . |
| 24 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 25 | There was no government policy to fundamentally tackle unemployment and seen against that background , many at the meeting felt they were playing a game . |
| 26 | According to him , Gibson felt they needed a more up-market sister instrument . |
| 27 | In other words the essential parameters by which European Christians felt they could decide whether a particular other creature was , or was not , a human being — a person like us " — were then , as they still remain , physical appearance , intelligence ( as manifested by language ) , religion . |
| 28 | These rebels felt they had a cause . |
| 29 | It was also that free admission was part of the great Victorian philanthropic tradition , part of the vision of Britain which the Establishment felt they were called to safeguard . |
| 30 | In short , there appeared to be a cutoff at five years , such that those with responsibility time spans of less than five years felt they needed a manager with a responsibility time span of more than five years . |