Example sentences of "[det] need [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some younger ones too may want children to fill some need for love and affection that may have been lacking in their lives . |
| 2 | David Clark thought there might be some need for review while Adrian Bird felt that a blanket prohibition should only be a starting point which should be used in conjunction with local knowledge . |
| 3 | His ideas for change would involve some regrouping of staff , and some need for training with new computer software . |
| 4 | This need for criteria was recognised at the Cambridge seminar in 1977 and three papers specified criteria that schemes would need to satisfy . |
| 5 | This need for evidence arises because the world is inherently uncertain . |
| 6 | ( When she was told , she was surprisingly sympathetic , and tolerant of this need for independence . |
| 7 | This need for fairness has overshadowed the search for a simpler pricing system . |
| 8 | It is this need for interoperability , which applies equally to printers as personal computers , that Hewlett-Packard is at pains to reflect — though without compromising printer performance . |
| 9 | One factor which has given renewed emphasis to this need for cooperation is the increased use of simulation ( p. 128 ) . |
| 10 | This need for cooperation is especially pressing during a period of economic recession , since nations are then more concerned with gaining a competitive advantage over their rivals so that domestic employment levels can be maintained . |
| 11 | This need for self-esteem can be carefully nurtured so that the horse will want to perform to boost its own ego even further . |
| 12 | Why do these men have this need for control ? |
| 13 | Elf rituals of Khaine worship stress this need for control . |
| 14 | This conclusion was hotly disputed by the POA , although there can be little doubt that the running of the prison system had come to depend unhealthily on overtime ( for which the prison officers were of course paid extra at higher rates ) and that at least some of this need for overtime was generated by unnecessary restrictive practices . |
| 15 | In an attempt to respond to this need for training , WACC 's Pacific Regional Association has organised and funded four desktop publishing workshops since 1987 specifically to upgrade the skills of Christian communicators in the Pacific islands and help them to use the new technology to maximum effect . |
| 16 | I could just imagine my father jumping up and down on this argument , this need for meaning , for faith . |
| 17 | This need from proclamation is expressed with sensitivity in section three of the World Council of Churches Conference on World Mission and Evangelism Report ( Melbourne May 12–24 , 1980 ) The Church Witnesses to the Kingdom , in the following paragraph : |
| 18 | ‘ It seemed at the time that he might not have much need of intimacy . |
| 19 | By temperament , not have much need of intimacy . ’ |
| 20 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps there is n't that much need for discretion . |
| 22 | If , in fact , you ask fifteen students for their version of the facts and their interpretation , on most occasions you 'll get about fifteen different answers , so in terms of the learning process there is much need for discussion for and a better understanding . |
| 23 | erm there are a lot of social needs that remain unmet , and meeting those needs would generate more employment , but in many areas of the economy I do n't think there 's so much need for work as there has been in the past , especially as we 're applying new technologies that increase productivity dramatically . |
| 24 | The owner of the Sundial , Mr Fred Davies , said the hotel would make an ideal nursing home with little need for alterations . |
| 25 | Mr Davies said the hotel would make an ideal nursing home with little need for alterations . |
| 26 | Two years later , the selected strategy and its financial implications have proved themselves with little need for modification . |
| 27 | There is little need for directions : a much-trodden path goes upstream for two miles to Thornton Force , there crossing open ground to Beezley Farm for the return alongside the eastern stream . |
| 28 | There is little need for contact with the Department of Health and Social Security because payment is made through the Post Office ; there is therefore no requirement to beg or argue one 's case . |
| 29 | More recently , these hidebound attitudes have changed , in that educated , intelligent Christians accept that there is little need for God to perform a miracle ( unless , moving in mysterious ways , He particularly wants to ) when He can create the same effect using natural processes ; while scientists have begun more and more to recognize that there may be more truth in the mystical writings of the Christian and other religions than they have previously been prepared to admit . |
| 30 | It could be argued that since children from about the age of eight years can create their own mental images and since , according to Shirley Hughes ( 1983 , unpaged ) ‘ The best pictures any child sees are in its own head ’ , there is little need for pictures in books for older children . |