Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] need [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aristocracy , for its part , has never needed to be convinced of the importance of not working . |
| 2 | But to enable these skills to be transferred there needed to be a catalyst — the workforce needed to be trained how to train . |
| 3 | A suitable relocation compensation and benefits package also needs to be provided . |
| 4 | Unexpected difficulties which have prevented things from going well need to be identified and put right . |
| 5 | Sampling therefore needs to be related to a single condition such as baseflow or highflow ; different suites of elements may be mobilised at different pH conditions and carefully designed sampling programmes can take advantage of these differences . |
| 6 | Those who seek to do so need to be guided by sound liturgical principles , such as those found in the Liturgical Commission 's Patterns for Worship ( Church House Publishing , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | As a result , these finds often need to be sorted into further groups such as pre-Inca pottery and Inca pottery before they are studied . |
| 8 | There are some very strong characters undertaking conveyancing and a young person starting out needs to be pretty tough in order to withstand the pressures . |
| 9 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |
| 10 | Hausman ( 1985 ) notes how the Slutsky equation discussed above needs to be modified in the presence of a tax system that is more complicated than the proportional one assumed in equation ( 12–1 ) . |
| 11 | The Kings did not need to be at their pearly best to win 111-77 . |
| 12 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 13 | Of course , individual reformers did not need to be committed Philosophical Idealists in order to adhere to the new image ; old-fashioned ageism reached the same conclusion and had more or less the same remedies for the ‘ problem ’ . |
| 14 | President Cormack did not need to be woken . |
| 15 | Raybestos also released a statement they had been authorized to make by Dr Selikoff , the world 's pre-eminent expert on asbestos and director of cancer research at Mount Sinai Hospital , to the effect that asbestos did not need to be banned to protect society , if it was properly controlled . |
| 16 | And with that he bent over and lifted me to my feet and told me to be off , which I did not need to be told twice to do . |
| 17 | The nobility of the ancien régime from which twentieth-century Europeans emerged was one of deeply entrenched attitudes which were often hardly made explicit — because they did not need to be . |
| 18 | Inflation was comparatively low and the licence fee , swelled by the increasing income from the separate TV licence , did not need to be raised often in order to provide an adequate income . |
| 19 | Any woman in the early 1970s did not need to be very observant to notice that there were serious dangers of being discredited by name in the media . |
| 20 | The crucial difference between special interest , or special damage , and genuine grievance was that a special interest was one greater than that of other affected people generally , whereas a genuine grievance did not need to be any different in type or intensity than that of other affected persons . |
| 21 | In any case , Morrison 's narrative of violent neighbourhood rivalries , robberies and attacks on policemen — ‘ for kicking practice ’ as he put it — did not need to be either borrowed or invented in late nineteenth-century London . |
| 22 | ‘ Your mother did not need to be always enceinte , n'est ce pas ? |
| 23 | Other members of the International Law Commission felt that the European Communities is a unique organisation which did not need to be catered for by a particular Article . |
| 24 | The people knew God did not need to be fed by them — he was feeding them with manna . |
| 25 | It was new to them , but they did not need to be told that it was good and it raised their spirits . |
| 26 | Victorians like George Eliot did not need to be expert in iconography ( the reading of this painting is still disputed ) in order to sense in such interiors a spiritual meaning in material things . |
| 27 | The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices . |
| 28 | Ultimately however , one would hope to find a complete , consistent , unified theory that would include all these partial theories as approximations , and that did not need to be adjusted to fit the facts by picking the values of certain arbitrary numbers in the theory . |
| 29 | In 1973 the government ran a considerable campaign to instruct electors how to record their votes under the system of proportional representation , but it was thought that after the experience of two proportional representation elections in 1973 the electorate did not need to be more than reminded of what was required . |
| 30 | Eva did not need to be asked twice . |