Example sentences of "do not need [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer was to build cars which did not need such lubrication and to stop adding lead to petrol . |
| 2 | Erika did not need that last qualification . |
| 3 | As a young scientist , Appleton did not need vast capital equipment to discover the phenomenon of ionised gas molecules in the ionosphere — ‘ the Appleton Layer ’ . |
| 4 | He was given a brain scan there that showed he did not need immediate brain surgery . |
| 5 | Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike . |
| 6 | The State authorities did not need much convincing ; with the world believing that Shangri-La was at hand courtesy of Utah , State politicians seized on this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to revitalise Utah 's economy . |
| 7 | Although those who studied at Kiev University ( Vil'na 's successor ) had to know enough Russian to understand lectures , they constituted the majority of the new university 's students for the first thirty years of its life and did not need Russian to consort with their peers . |
| 8 | Tony Benn , who Mr O'Neill recalled was a member of a Labour Cabinet committed to nuclear defence , insisted that Britain did not need nuclear weapons because there was no Soviet threat . |
| 9 | She really did not need this . |
| 10 | Haagen-Dazs was different , seen as spontaneous , informal and casual which did not need overt luxury imagery . |
| 11 | They did not need special fitness regimes . |
| 12 | SPHINX did not need more information than that provided over word pairs to distinguish the correct hypothesis . |
| 13 | Looking back , it seems remarkable that only in the 1950s did white people come to accept — grudgingly for the most part — that black people did not need white people in positions of authority to lead and guide them . |
| 14 | She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned . |
| 15 | Once I talked with a doctor about one such personality , asking if in his opinion X did not need psychiatric help , just so he could let go a little . |
| 16 | Of 60 fund managers asked last year , 55 did not regard IR officers as their primary company contacts ; 33 thought that British industry did not need any more IR consultants . |
| 17 | He certainly did not need any encouragement . ’ |
| 18 | I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush . |
| 19 | Others indicated that they did not need any more qualifications for progress at work . |
| 20 | All I know is that the Labour Government , who were in favour of the European Community , did not need any convincing that they were not in favour of a federalist united states of Europe . |
| 21 | He did not need any encouragement at all , as she had discovered when she had lunched with him on Tuesday . |
| 22 | Fewer still would argue that people did not need green spaces within their communities . |
| 23 | John 's response is to say that they did not need false teachers , or any other teachers for that matter : ‘ you have been anointed ( lit . |
| 24 | Mr Honecker and his men , boasting confidently that their economy was so well run it did not need Soviet-style reforms , were banking on the expectation that Mr Gorbachev would fail . |
| 25 | We certainly do not need higher taxes , a minimum wage and the restoration of trade union power , which would prolong the recession and abort a recovery . |
| 26 | IDE drives do not need low level formatting so if your BIOS has such a routine , ignore it . |
| 27 | Inflatables do not need great pressure to keep them hard enough for the sea . |
| 28 | You do not need all this to establish that a man is drunk or that there is mayhem when he is in charge of a class . |
| 29 | Of course you could say that we do not need all the animals anyway , but at the moment we have got them , so there is a conflict here . |
| 30 | If we do not need all that DP equipment now we may need it in the future . |