Example sentences of "was in need [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the open-door policy was in question and was in need of modification . |
| 2 | On the other hand , he might not have recognised her , might have thought some girl was in need of help , then decided they were two harmless lovers and driven away . |
| 3 | Neighbours , who reported the man as missing to the local council , say more should have been done to see if he was in need of help . |
| 4 | But people who knew the man say they think the council did n't do enough to find out if he was in need of help . |
| 5 | Sheriff Alexander Jessop stated that Muller was in need of help , not punishment . |
| 6 | According to Fielding , Caduta was in need of reassurance . |
| 7 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 8 | He was aware that she believed he was in need of art . |
| 9 | She did n't want to give the impression she was in need of company at the cottage . |
| 10 | It was not the administrative aspect , outlined in Brooksbank , which was in need of attention as much as the daily process of feeding change into a school through the conversion , retraining or updating of its teachers ' skills and through the introduction of both new materials and new perspectives in the build-up of subject knowledge and human skills . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was reported that a bridge on footpath No 40 was in need of repair . |
| 13 | Local agronomists from the Commissariat of Agriculture discovered in the Samara guberniia that 40 per cent of the machinery that had been hired out was unusable , and virtually all the rest was in need of repairs . |