Example sentences of "[prep] need [prep] repair " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing I have noticed is that the exterior of the church is in need of repair and redecoration . |
| 2 | Throughout the Malá Strana notice the original black and white pavements , many now in need of repair . |
| 3 | The examples here , as will be seen , are books from their lending side , or books in need of repair . |
| 4 | The food was unspeakable , most children wore threadbare clothes and badly worn shoes in need of repair . |
| 5 | She glanced at the blistered woodwork and peeling paint , and noticed in a desultory fashion that the first shelter had had its windows broken , and the railings between the parade and the beach looked in need of repair . |
| 6 | Thereafter it was continually in need of repair or subject to minor alteration until the Reformation , given a Lady Chapel for the cult of the Virgin in the later thirteenth century and , most obviously , a spire in the fifteenth century , making it one of the best landscape features of any medieval building , far less uniformly oppressive than Salisbury . |
| 7 | The minarets of Al-Hakkim of Bi-biralahi are both in poor condition and in need of repair . |
| 8 | Both tower and church were sadly in need of repair . |
| 9 | In Illich 's view , such treatment ‘ is but a device to convince those who are sick and tired of society that it is they who are ill , impotent and in need of repair ’ . |
| 10 | From all accounts , the church was badly in need of repair . |
| 11 | And my teeth are in bad , all my teeth are badly in need of repair . |
| 12 | By the year 1316 , at the death of Thomas de Woldham , the roof of the Palace had fallen in and the Manor House was in need of repair , for in his will Thomas de Woldham left all his timber at Halling to the repair of the roof of the Palace and also the repair of the hall of the Manor House . |
| 13 | And yet this too had its agreeable counterpart ; their boats , however much in need of repair , had not gone down . |
| 14 | The area contains much sub-standard terraced housing which is in need of repair . |
| 15 | ( Station Lane where the water authority has been installing a pipe is especially in need of repair . ) |
| 16 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was reported that a bridge on footpath No 40 was in need of repair . |
| 17 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it mentioned that the stiles on footpath No 12 between Scorton Picnic area and the Trough Road are in need of repair . |
| 18 | The waste ground is separated from a park by some old fencing which is in need of repair . |
| 19 | The St Nicholas window is in need of repair . |
| 20 | The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair . |
| 21 | Moral fabric in need of repair |
| 22 | You rightly say in your editorial today ( ‘ Moral fabric in need of repair ’ ) that the sentiments he expresses are not the sole property of democratic socialists . |
| 23 | It shows that 94% of all items issued fell into the first two categories , and required no repair ( although 24% were in a well-used condition and might eventually require some attention ) , while only 6% fell into the last three categories and were in need of repair . |
| 24 | As Table 12 , above , shows , a number of chronological groups contained a markedly higher proportion of items in need of repair than the overall figure of 6% already calculated . |
| 25 | On the other hand , however , although 20th Century publications , taken as a whole , showed a lower-than-average proportion of items in need of repair ( 3% ) , it would be wrong to conclude that such material is in no danger . |
| 26 | It must not be forgotten , however , that although a particular period may contain a low proportion of defective items , if publications from that period are in great demand , a larger number of defective items from that period may be issued ( and may suffer further damage ) than from a less popular period , even if the latter contains a higher proportion of items in need of repair . |
| 27 | The latter , although they accounted for only one in ten ( 11.5% ) of all issues , accounted for half ( 49.8% ) of all items in need of repair . |
| 28 | In order , therefore , to establish the extent of the deterioration evident in defective items of different ages issued to readers , an examination was made of how , within each chronological group , items in need of repair were distributed among Categories 3–5 ( ‘ Poor' , ‘ Bad ’ , and ‘ Fragile ’ ) . |
| 29 | As Table 14 shows , the overall distribution of material in need of repair was such that more than three-quarters ( 78% ) of all defective items issued were classified only as ‘ Poor ’ since they did not show major deterioration , while just under a fifth ( 18% ) were classified as ‘ Bad ’ . |
| 30 | Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items . |