Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] need for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justice for All analysed the unmet need for professional legal services and proposed the establishment of local legal centres in places of deprivation , to be staffed by salaried lawyers and to exist with and be supplemental to the private profession . |
| 2 | PW senior partner Shaun O'Malley welcomed the news and said that the affair underlined the critical need for tort reform in the US . |
| 3 | The fact-finding visit comes in the aftermath of an upsurge in loyalist violence and comments by Albert Reynolds that the violence underlined the urgent need for inter-party talks to be resumed . |
| 4 | In later times , castles and great houses in Ireland , the possession of absentee landlords , suffered likewise when local plunderers exploited the international need for lead in the manufacture of munitions . |
| 5 | The deputy mayor emphasised the real need for a new library , basing the council 's case on the Board 's own statistics . |
| 6 | He emphasised the consequent need for schools to ensure that adequate opportunities were provided for improving accomplishments in speaking and listening . |
| 7 | Historians have tended to ignore these important developments , which implied the growing need for a small supply of vessels specially built for war ( like heavy artillery , these could only be afforded by the crown ) , the facilities for their maintenance , and the growing appreciation that England 's commercial interests should be defended by ships built for that purpose . |
| 8 | Robin stressed the vital need for customer service — for end users , trade customers and for our internal customers , our colleagues — if the company is to gain and retain the leading edge over competition . |
| 9 | But Harold Macmillan 's premiership ( 1957–63 ) was marked by two key decisions , which removed the main need for a space policy ( delivering nuclear weapons ) and the main sponsorship of space — the Prime Minister of the day and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 10 | The trade union Solidarity held a major national conference at Gdansk on April 19-25 , at which the delegates discussed the growing need for policy development in the light of the country 's rapidly changing political and economic character . |
| 11 | Representatives of the 24 member countries discussed the urgent need for conclusion of the Uruguay Round of the GATT talks [ see pp. 38888-89 ] . |
| 12 | Some doctors recognized the medical need for relief from child-bearing , others were concerned about the eugenic aspects of differential birth-rates . |