Example sentences of "[art] need [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if this really was the sum of Hoover 's sexuality — sad , mean and sporadic , a slight release from the need to control himself utterly — he seems almost pitiable . |
| 2 | Maria questioned him , aware that his desire for her had n't died yet even if the need to respect himself again had dictated that he put an end to their affair . |
| 3 | Even stronger than the need to disentangle himself from his father was his desire to break free from any association with those money-grubbing relatives of his , ‘ Messrs Van Gogh and Co , . |
| 4 | And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence . |
| 5 | On this reading of higher learning , it is no accident that philosophy , fine art and the humanities generally are feeling the need to justify themselves . |
| 6 | Our brief is to report on the more fascinating aspects of this period of intense change — the meeting of consciousness and business ; the search for meaning in our information society ; the need to empower ourselves , discover a new global heart and become our own politics . |
| 7 | Like Georg , she felt the need to submit herself to the possibility of seeing the one she loved who had rejected her . |
| 8 | Also many frail but not necessarily disabled elderly people feel the need to steady themselves by touching various pieces of furniture with one hand as they move around their homes , and for them , carrying a telephone and manoeuvring the flex from one room to another may have its hazards . |
| 9 | When he could no longer contain the need to relieve himself , he decided against pissing in the doorway . |
| 10 | I urgently felt the need to sacrifice myself for the underprivileged . |
| 11 | He still held her hand against his pulse and she wanted to replace it with her mouth ; wanted to trail her fingers across his warm flesh , and the need to deny herself made her shake . |
| 12 | When they talk about these matters and the need to engage oneself with one 's history , he realizes that ‘ history ’ is the operative word . |
| 13 | The need to disassociate oneself from it then follows . |
| 14 | Lydia felt the need to remove herself , as people who stay in hotels get out of the way when the poor chambermaids come to make the beds . |
| 15 | It was the same in all the other areas of my life ; removed from the need to protect myself against the horrors of enhanced eidesis , I began to live as others did , blithely and unconsciously . |
| 16 | Instantly , she was filled with the need to protect herself from the hopelessly vulnerable way that made her feel . |
| 17 | It 's quite a shortsighted policy , if you look at the er , because , if you erm , if you introduce subsidies to actually protect the domestic industry then that 's often going to cause retaliation from other countries and therefore effectively sealing off any trade , any effective trade at all , and consequently because there 's no competitive pressure on the domestic industries , they 're not going to feel the need to make themselves more productive , which they would do when there was competition . |
| 18 | At the time , the Board was primarily concerned with accounting standard-setting for business organizations , but it saw the need to involve itself with non-business organizations as well and this research study was its first move in that direction . |
| 19 | Although — most fortunately — not everybody who feels the need to assert themselves against rules becomes a mass-murderer , there is undoubtedly today a widespread feeling that all rules and regulations are onerous and provocative . |
| 20 | ‘ I may have to go to France , ’ she managed hastily , not really meaning it but feeling the need to assert herself . |
| 21 | You do n't feel the need to prove yourself , to seek approval , to be careful what you say , or to put up a façade of any kind . |
| 22 | The protagonist also feels the need to insulate herself emotionally , a form of protectionism which bears a problematic resemblance to the cultural chauvinism and xenophobia she witnesses during the war . |
| 23 | Where the privacy of routine cases provides an effective screen to scrutiny , however , the field officer is freed from the need to cover himself by acting according to his perception of the organization 's expectations . |
| 24 | I merely felt the need to satisfy myself that it had not escaped your attention … ’ |
| 25 | The Home Secretary , Sir John Anderson , suggested that this should be a general measure , but few local authorities saw the need to exert themselves . |
| 26 | This still does not account satisfactorily for the tiger 's thick fur and the need to keep itself cool in its oriental habitat . |
| 27 | If you feel confident in the assessors you can relax and behave as you should instead of feeling the need to get yourself noticed . |
| 28 | Whether it 's fish in Southern India or tripe in Northern England , the need to place ourselves is the same . |
| 29 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 30 | It was as if his father felt a need to torture himself ; to surround himself with the symbols of lost joy . |