Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be need [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get a quote from the vet for night visits in case he or she is needed at foaling . |
| 2 | Mr Michael King , regional secretary for the association , said it would provide accommodation where it was needed at the very bottom of the housing ladder . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact that I was needed by him in that setting was actually very attractive , because I was important . |
| 4 | We believe that she is a very fine ship and that she is needed by the Royal Navy and the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | To know that she was needed by someone gave her a heady sense of power . |
| 6 | This is , of course , a not surprising by-product of some forms of mental illness and some women , despite this , might still argue that they were needed at home . |
| 7 | The fact that they were needed by the state , because there was a " public " dimension to their activity , meant that they were actually co-opted into governmental decision-making : they were asked to give advice , and , more than this , they came to act as agents through which state policy was actually implemented . |
| 8 | Jon Stratton has suggested that he is needed for ideological reasons too ( 1983 ) : in Stratton 's view , the ‘ romantic ’ image of the creative artist is no false veneer nor confined to ‘ mass culture ’ , but part of a larger tradition , within which the dialectic of ‘ romanticism ’ and commodification is basic to capitalist culture as such ; thus it implicates the ‘ individualism ’ of , say , Beethoven as well as that of pop stars and composers . |
| 9 | If by any chance you do find your da , tell him that he is needed at home . |
| 10 | The family believes that Jacqueline used to pave the way for Iain 's escapes by writing to the school , explaining that he was needed at home . |
| 11 | When we got there it really was a mess but services had come even from West Chelsea and we had to go back in case any of our unexploded bombs went off and we were needed nearer the river . |
| 12 | Care must be taken to ensure that these assets are included in the sale if they are needed by the purchaser for operating the business . |
| 13 | Erm , you know , if they 're sitting there in water and they 've been peeled and they 're ready to cook , they wo n't be cooked until they 're needed to be cooked , you know . |
| 14 | Erm , and there are , there are some signs of erm , odd categories of advertising being slightly up but they are need to be counter balanced by others which are down too . |
| 15 | ‘ Because I was needed at home to do the work . ’ |
| 16 | This turned out to be impracticable , partly because they were needed for training and also had to be moved between aerodromes because of changes in the strategic and tactical situation , but also , more importantly , just how do you build an aeroplane for one flight only ? |
| 17 | A great deal of documentary primary material is now quickly published because it is needed for reference . |
| 18 | Will he confirm that the inquiry will be wide ranging and will pay close attention not only to the environmental impact of the proposed lines but to whether they are needed at all for the national grid to meet its licence standards ? |
| 19 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |
| 20 | It is however a controversial project because of the cost of its electricity and the question as to whether it is needed at the present time despite electricity being the main growth area in the Brazilian energy demand picture . |
| 21 | By the middle of December they had exhausted all their cash — whether it was needed for wages or not . |
| 22 | Choose one of the shops and list the questions you would ask if you wanted to find out whether it was needed in your area . |
| 23 | looking up numbers when they are needed as part of the ongoing media relations programme . |
| 24 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 25 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
| 26 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
| 27 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 28 | It was argued that it would never be possible to produce these bitmaps in real time , ie to create each character as and when it was needed from a master outline . |
| 29 | The institute has committed itself to continuing to offer practical help and communication expertise as long as it is needed in the recovery process . |