Example sentences of "they need the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they need the Beta award ? |
| 2 | Did they need the plunder ? |
| 3 | In an interview with customs officers , Righton said he knew that children were vulnerable , but did n't agree they needed the protection of the law against being photographed in the nude . |
| 4 | In 1982 the Arabs relented , but said that ( a ) they needed the cover of an ‘ international conference ’ and ( b ) that Yasser Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation would have to be present , too . |
| 5 | They needed the worker to care about them , to be willing to sit down with them and help solve a problem and be a good listener . |
| 6 | I think they needed the bed for somebody else . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed . |
| 8 | in case they needed the toilet . |
| 9 | Time- asymmetry thus implies that while the terrain was undergoing upheaval new types of animal arose through a feedback process , because they needed the land for further food , and because the waxing and waning ice-ages together with ( or as a result of ) the early breakup and reformation of the continents often had major and fatal consequences for marine and land faunas . |
| 10 | The MoD had claimed at a public inquiry in 1988 that they needed the land for training and in 1991 asked to extend the area further . |
| 11 | It was at the precise moment at which they needed the assistance that it was cut . |
| 12 | In open battle and in the plundering expeditions that constituted the normal form of aggressive warfare , they needed the backing of archers , both mounted and on foot , and of numerous infantrymen . |
| 13 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 14 | The United States sought to maintain an atomic energy monopoly — both military and civilian — as a God-given right ; but for the purposes of conventional warfare they needed the support of allies and were prepared to buy international collaboration with superficially altruistic aid programmes . |
| 15 | I moved away from the bus post , they needed the support more than I did . |
| 16 | They told me they needed the money for legal fees . |
| 17 | ‘ Leeds sold me because maybe they needed the money to strengthen their defence . ’ |
| 18 | Some noblemen went out as governors because they needed the money and , perhaps because they were habitually lavish about their spending , were usually rather popular . |
| 19 | Er and just be a home-maker unless as I said if there was a reason for it , if they needed the money . |
| 20 | For schools to exploit fully the potential of enhanced staffing after a century of working on the basis of n class teachers plus the head , they needed the imagination to conceive of alternatives ; a shift in attitudes away from the entrenched belief in the inviolability and supremacy of the traditional twin roles of head and class teacher ; and the will to enact such alternatives and live with the discomfort which the changing of professional roles inevitably generates . |
| 21 | This new centralism was in part because the Thatcher government perceived these institutions as potentially so damaging that they needed the maximum of intervention to suppress them . |
| 22 | How if the boys were to stay-on and get their Highers they needed the Security etc . |
| 23 | I told you , they needed the cart and the horses , for they were running from old pastures gone sour on them , and in the devil 's own hurry . ’ |
| 24 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 25 | ‘ If they needed the wagon and the team so sorely , ’ said Hugh , ‘ one thing 's certain , they 'd want no great load of timber to slow them down . |
| 26 | The plebs elected their bishop but because their community was part of the universal or catholic church , they needed the consent and the consecrating hands of neighbouring bishops . |
| 27 | And they needed the loan of extra pumps because she was making water . |
| 28 | According to this argument French troops had to see that they were fighting for something and , moreover , they needed the feeling that their actions were approved . |
| 29 | They did n't need the operation but they needed the food . |
| 30 | As long ago as the ‘ work to contract , ’ juniors were negotiating and acting independently , although they needed the sanction of the BMA council to make their action legal , as did the consultants . |