Example sentences of "[noun sg] needing " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to folklore if a traveller on horseback leaves a horse needing a new shoe together with a coin , the horse will have been shod when they return to the spot . |
| 2 | Dear me , she thought I was some old biddy needing bingo . ’ |
| 3 | It has also allowed him to boost outputs with the Mengele forager , an important benefit for a contractor needing to cover as many acres in a year as possible . |
| 4 | An International Commission on unprotected children on city streets called it a growing urban tragedy needing concrete action not just concern ( Agnelli , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | William Empson , a lifelong and dedicated atheist , returned from the Far East in 1952 expecting to find little more demolition-work on religion needing to be done , at least among the lettered , and was horrified to discover that the devout spirit of T. S. Eliot , in his absence , had spawned a host of converts in the critical world . |
| 6 | Each component raises a question needing a clear answer . |
| 7 | In every question needing assessment a standard or scale of reference is required by which you can measure relative success , failure or achievement . |
| 8 | It 's the ghost in the machine needing to be unmasked and disarmed . |
| 9 | The block plan needing the least work was the most popular design , with at least 152 submissions . |
| 10 | It was doubtful she carried much money , but even so , could he possibly ignore a lady needing assistance ? |
| 11 | Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space . |
| 12 | Labour made the National Health Service a major issue , and considerable media debate arose after a Labour party political broadcast on March 24 featuring the plight of a young girl needing specialist hospital treatment . |
| 13 | There is no question of a vehicle needing to be fitted with these lamps or indeed any other item — if the vehicle is of an age or type which does not require them . |
| 14 | Simon Barrington-Ward , Bishop of Coventry , wrote recently ‘ We certainly have an experience all over the world of church leaders in loneliness needing to submit themselves to others and this is a crying need that is just not being met ’ . |
| 15 | In such a case the impression is given that Jesus is , as it were on his own , and with no reference needing to be made to the other persons of the trinity , God . |
| 16 | The reversal need not be great : as Appendix III puts it , some people 's budgets are ‘ in a delicate balance … . and even a minor fluctuation ( eg. a new child benefit book not being issued on time , the late arrival of a supplementary benefit giro cheque , a child needing a new pair of shoes ) can tip the scales against them . ’ |
| 17 | a child needing a home ( adoptions fall into two categories : babies aged less than 9–12 months , and older children with special needs ) ; |
| 18 | In the First Division , Kilmarnock go to Clydebank this evening needing to win to regain second position behind Raith Rovers . |
| 19 | The best hope of course is that the rates which the government has chosen to go in at will be sustainable , that the government will be able to combine cuts with interest rates , cuts in interest rates , with the needs of the economy and the constraints of the European Monetary System , so that it actually gets a downward path of interest rates at the rate which the economy needs , without provoking a sterling crisis which would push sterling to the bottom of its permitted rates , and produce a crisis of erm of confidence needing higher interest rates . |
| 20 | If either side indicates that it has time pressure , such as the seller needing to complete the sale before its financial year end , the other may well wish to exploit this . |
| 21 | Outside-half John Steele starts the match needing five more points to reach 400 for the season . |
| 22 | Skipper Border , who started the match needing 348 runs to overhaul India 's Sunil Gavaskar as the highest run-scorer in Test history , helped the home side recover to 259–6 . |
| 23 | And what is the fi , is the kitchen erm chimney needing to be swept or something then ? |
| 24 | My father protested but , as Mrs Clamp pointed out , it was quite enough to have to look after two invalids in the one house without having an infant needing constant care as well . |
| 25 | With the ground packed to capacity and the home team needing a valuable point to avoid relegation , Dundee played to win , eventually dismantling Saints and sending them into the Second Division . |
| 26 | The contrasting commitment between a team needing points for survival and one , like Kelso , already safe has never been more obvious and Heriot 's ended up winners by 86-8 . |
| 27 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
| 28 | Delete Tree is a very good program for those who have a hard disk needing a little house keeping . |
| 29 | Firstly , we may be critical of the way the field is set up , so that men and their behaviour are implicitly the norm and women 's behaviour becomes a deviation needing explanation . |
| 30 | A further problem with compensation theory is its neglect of the effect of unemployment benefit , not a factor needing to be taken into account by the earliest exponents of this theory , writing in the mid-eighteenth century . |