Example sentences of "needing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was midway through a Friday afternoon , and Adele Venetz had taken the restaurant 's van to the cash-and-carry for all the last-minute supplies they 'd be needing for Saturday 's party catering job , leaving her sister and Alina to manage the business alone . |
| 2 | You 'll have no trouble in finding details of my engagements and future movements , including the papers I 'll be needing for a trip to Bruges next month . |
| 3 | Some blinking thing they 're , they 're needing for a er accents you know |
| 4 | And if they were n't properly done , you 'd tell the forewoman that that was n't in such and such a coach in compartment was needing under the seats were needing cleaning . |
| 5 | Rather we see they are related sets of problems , needing in part national solutions and in part international changes . |
| 6 | It was the only piece that she 'd be needing from now on . |
| 7 | Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway is the site of a Second World War factory , the ugly remains of this building needing to be removed by the Scottish Development Agency . |
| 8 | She sounded like a tired child , needing to be comforted . |
| 9 | Quite decent things , hopelessly botched , needing to be made clean again . |
| 10 | Many school textbooks , from the earliest readers , portray older people as clumsy , frail , pathetic , and needing to be helped across roads , while younger members of the family are happily enjoying an exciting and glamorous life . |
| 11 | Of course you have to take into account the basic personality of the patient ; some will tell all without needing to be questioned , others need tact , diplomacy and perseverance to get any symptoms from them . |
| 12 | Ministers speak of the ‘ delivery ’ of the National Curriculum as though it were a manufactured product , just needing to be packaged in the schools . |
| 13 | A program knowing something about people 's typical behaviour in restaurants is able to infer ( without needing to be explicitly told ) that if John asked for the bill and then left , he probably paid the bill before leaving . |
| 14 | Or they can be shaken , the new and perhaps frail ability to trust , hope and feel gratitude needing to be re-established . |
| 15 | Needing to be near to something |
| 16 | As a result they may always be hard up without needing to be . |
| 17 | When released from prison he shows how he relied on others , by needing to be with the church after release from prison rather than going off and licking his wounds by himself . |
| 18 | This species is another of those which should always be considered as needing to be kept in pairs . |
| 19 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 20 | It comes ‘ from the notion that the beast , not caring to run and not needing to , can be shooed over the finish line , and win ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Rehearsal ’ mode or its equivalent is also very useful , as it saves the head-drum and tape from unnecessary wear by displaying the scene to be shot in the viewfinder without the camcorder needing to be held in record-pause while takes are being lined up . |
| 24 | He decided what he wanted and others — regardless of sex — followed his lead , without needing to be bossed . |
| 25 | It 's the ghost in the machine needing to be unmasked and disarmed . |
| 26 | If there 's something needing to be said , do n't shirk it . |
| 27 | As Cliff Drysdale , former top player turned television commentator , in chairing the seminar , put it , the two questions needing to be addressed are ‘ Is there a problem and if so , what can or should we do about it ? ’ |
| 28 | Private cars are not permitted to use the access road and indeed can not cross via the pedestrian ferry , but in summer months a minibus takes visitors from the ferry to the lighthouse , a service not operating to a timetable and needing to be confirmed by advance enquiry . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It examines the considerable difficulties , both intellectual and practical , of taking seriously HMI 's view of the curriculum as needing to be broad , balanced and coherent . |