Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] need [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | : the computer has no implicit notion of Harriet 's status as a sentient being , nor her concomitant need for sustenance ; |
| 2 | Liza 's desire to join the ATS , with a view to becoming a driver , was probably an extension of her avid need for conviviality . |
| 3 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 4 | In any case , she tires of their constant need for milk and leaves the earth , only returning with the necessary food to feed them . |
| 5 | A conflict may arise between the pressure to prepare young people for independent living , and their continued need for support . |
| 6 | And Jesus longed to meet this woman on that her deep need of fulfilment . |
| 7 | The Monodactylus species are interesting and hardy aquarium subjects provided that their eventual need for salt water is born in mind . |
| 8 | Even Marie herself might have confessed to you that it was ‘ daft ’ : she saw how improbable it was , but in her desperate need for comfort , for attention and affection , she still believed it … . |
| 9 | AN anonymous businessman has donated a van to Kirkby Community Action team after the Echo reported its desperate need for transport . |
| 10 | The course of Hornblower 's love for the forthright ( and fictional ) sister of the noble Wellesleys , developed through his uneasy , self-tormenting thoughts , plays the central part in the novels demanded by their romantic tone and structure ; in the way the two proud individuals adjust to an intimacy which disturbs their essential need for privacy of character , in Hornblower 's emotional vacillations when in perilous circumstances he meets Mane de Graçay again , his behaviour and musings are consistent with his given character . |
| 11 | It had been her overwhelming need for money — a great deal of money — which had drawn her to the London Metal Exchange . |
| 12 | Behind the image of pride they hide their desperate need of acceptance , which they seek in everything they do , though they would never admit to it . |
| 13 | They want to be able to lend without having to search for a suitable borrower , and to get their money back quickly if their own need for liquidity changes . |
| 14 | Teams are insufficiently concerned with their own social needs , i.e. they ignore their own need for development and social maturing . |
| 15 | As Fisher ( 1990 ) has already pointed out the community care reforms are being designed as if everyone who is to receive services feels equally happy about that fact , and can express a reliable opinion about their own need for care , and the success of the service in meeting their needs . |
| 16 | Gorbachev invited the major capitalist countries to undertake a ‘ sober , constructive assessment ’ of problems of this kind , based if nothing else on their common need for self-preservation . |
| 17 | She accepted the therapist 's simple interpretation that this probably in part explained her excessive need for attention and reassurance from Charles . |
| 18 | A district with a high under 75 years standardised mortality ratio will tend to have people dying earlier than expected in the younger age groups , and applying national average rates of use of service to those groups will underestimate its relative need for health services . |
| 19 | His early need of solitude may also suggest this ; more so the story of daring to curse God in his novel , and his refusal to kiss his prayer-book when it was accidentally dropped . |
| 20 | That bond was not created by dominance — ‘ I 'll teach that horse who 's master ’ — but by manipulating the horse 's curiosity , his desire for safety , and his overwhelming need for bonding . |
| 21 | He spoke of his own need for forgiveness first . |
| 22 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 23 | The essential point is that sexuality as such disturbed him — even in his early letters to Conrad Aiken we see his sexual impulses towards women engaged in an unequal struggle with his own need for self-possession ( or self-preservation ) and control . |
| 24 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 25 | This is certainly the case when we measure our intimate need of God before his word , in a constant life of meditation . |