Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] need to " in BNC.
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| 31 | They are less fit than they need to be if they are to become international juniors . |
| 32 | ‘ My hope with some people is that they do n't stay any longer than they need to . |
| 33 | Bentham ( 1970 : 179 ) himself propounded the principle of ‘ frugality ’ ( or ‘ parsimony ’ ) , which states that punishments should be no more severe than they need to be to produce a utilitarian quantity of deterrence . |
| 34 | It follows that the courts can contribute to the prison numbers crisis either by sending more people to prison than they need to , or by sending them there for longer than is necessary . |
| 35 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 36 | People complain that these tests seem to take longer than they need to . |
| 37 | Nevertheless , they are rarely used individually and to the exclusion of all other forms of communication , so they need to be considered all together ; each form of communication adding a little more to the message the horse is sending . |
| 38 | Though they serve as parent representatives they are unlikely to be representative parents typical of the average parent at the school so they need to be encouraged to become involved in as many of the schools activities as possible , not only to gauge parental feelings and attitudes but energetically to engage in identifying ways of improving the school 's performance . |
| 39 | And those bits again , either tuck them in out of the way or better still fold them over and put a big plaster over the top to get them right out the way so no ends are left dangling , remember for most people you 're doing this for they 'll probably be returning to their place of work , okay , so they need to be safe to return to work , everybody okay on that lot ? |
| 40 | A spokesman for Cheshire County Council 's social services department said : ‘ At present there are many people who do not pay , so they need to be asked to make a contribution to cater for those care needs . |
| 41 | But some people do n't go to the dentist regularly , so they need to be checked at school . |
| 42 | Conflicting demands and timescales also made the project more difficult than it needed to be . |
| 43 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 44 | ‘ Did the meeting drag on longer than it needed to ? ’ |
| 45 | What I do see wrong is that it 's smaller than it needs to be . ’ |
| 46 | In some puppies , the hole which allowed blood to flow through the umbilical cord is bigger than it needs to be ; once the cord shrivels up , the hole is left open and if it is too big , a small piece of fat may be able to pop through . |
| 47 | The casing is much wider than it needs to be , I suppose bigger looks better , and although the top is made of a substantial plastic the base is n't and tends to give under pressure . |
| 48 | Finally , he remained in hospital months longer than he needed to . |
| 49 | yes whereas Martin although it is his job but he does tend to be a little bit more difficult than he needs to be . |
| 50 | The political implications of this discovery were far-reaching so it needed to be checked carefully . |
| 51 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 52 | There 's a number in the er when I was Church Street so that 's a few years now so it needs to be checked . |
| 53 | I walk upstream ; upstream because I can wade to the other bank if I need to and any disturbance will not carry far against the current . |
| 54 | Er , and I always reckon others will do the same , so I always take my notes on a , on a plain piece of paper , and put them together if I need to . |
| 55 | I tend to keep them in the originals cos then I if I need to . |
| 56 | if i I 'll just remember the symbol I wo n't even remember the symbols but I 'll just know that I can work it out if I needed to . |
| 57 | If I needed to . |
| 58 | yeah but having said that erm that was something I wanted to ask you about because I mean both , both of them might need some money for higher education so , whilst I 'd like to put that sum money on one side , I 'd also possibly , you know if the need arose , would like to use it myself if I needed to for , for higher education . |
| 59 | She does n't look like she needs to really . |
| 60 | ‘ He was a great poet , ’ I said , as if she needed to be told . |