Example sentences of "do [not/n't] need a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not like to think of McAllister alone with her , but that was stupid — McAllister was no concern of his , and surely did not need a battered doctor to look out for her . |
| 2 | I did not need a vast beacon lit on a hilltop . |
| 3 | Victorine protested that she did not need a new scarf and that green was not her colour . |
| 4 | It could be used in sieges ; it was valuable when used in the open by a lightly armed foot solder ; likewise , a mounted archer , who did not need a first-class horse to ride , could prove to be a very mobile and effective combatant . |
| 5 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 6 | Tanya Frost , of Lily 's Beauty Parlour , decided Norma 's fine , clear skin did not need a heavy foundation . |
| 7 | Iraq did not need a nuclear device , because it already had stocks of binary chemical weapons and , he went on , any country which threatened Iraq with an atomic bomb would be " annihilated " by the chemicals . |
| 8 | You do not need a new up-to-date machine , a Pink Passap Duo 5 will knit these as easily as will the Duo 80 or the E6000 . |
| 9 | ‘ They do not need a new logic ; they need practice in paying attention to the explicit form of any utterance rather than its meaning . |
| 10 | In an influential book , Bringing the State Back In , one of the editors , Theda Skocpol ( Evans , Rueschmeyer and Skocpol , 1987 : p. 28 ) concluded , ‘ we do not need a new or refurbished grand theory of The State . |
| 11 | If natural selection is employed in the explanations , we do not need a general linking of natural selection to the discovery of truth . |
| 12 | Teachers do not need a specialist social work teaching qualification . |
| 13 | You do not need a complete conventional circuit with a long downwind leg , although this will obviously give you more time in which to have a better look at the field . |
| 14 | Jump on condition " always " is an unconditional jump , so that we do not need a special operation code for this ( although the assembler language may have a special mnemonic for it ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The roads are excellent in Libya so you do not need a four-wheel-drive job , and there is certainly no shortage of petrol . ’ |
| 16 | Certain tender varieties of narcissi , like ‘ Paper White ’ and ‘ Grand Soleil d'Or ’ , are naturally early flowering and do not need a natural or artificial cool period in order to flower quickly and healthily indoors , but they can not be planted outside afterwards . |
| 17 | It did n't need a Russian scholar to understand that the bald man was claiming that the documents and the guns were for him , only food and drink for the ‘ businessmen ’ . |
| 18 | I said we did n't need a strong fence as the one tree that could fall on it already had . |
| 19 | With something as desirable as the Bölkow 207 , I did n't need a second offer , and on a thunderstorm-laden day ‘ TE turned finals onto Bourn 's Runway 19 to rendezvous with an eager air-tester and an equally impatient photographer . |
| 20 | Isabel did n't need a second invitation , quickly finding the meat and dividing it between them . |
| 21 | When grandfather died the farmer had allowed my grandmother and her two sons , still in their teens , to stay on in the cottage because he did n't need a new grieve ; he had an unmarried son in the big farmhouse , ready to take on the job . |
| 22 | She did n't need a single second . |
| 23 | I certainly did n't need a nubile young beauty cavorting among some of my best business contacts . ’ |
| 24 | You do n't need a palm-reading fortune teller to find out how long you might live . |
| 25 | Eyeline spokesman Rosie Johnson said : ‘ We do n't need a vast sum but without it , we 'll be forced to close . ’ |
| 26 | You do n't need a vast repertoire of games in order to be a highly effective drama teacher . |
| 27 | That 's the trouble , I do n't need a ruddy gallon |
| 28 | You do n't need a separate |
| 29 | You do n't need a Regional Authority all the way across the country all at once and you can actually bring a Regional Authority in , and it 's certainly that Scotland should have its own Parliament . |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't need a skilled knitter to spin seamless stockings , that 's what this is all about . |