Example sentences of "['s] need for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last September , in an effort to reconcile the genuine nature conservation aspirations of various wildlife groups with the Port 's need for expansion , the Harbour Commissioners reached agreement with the major nature conservation bodies in the Province to preserve one of the Kinnegar lagoons as a bird sanctuary along with approximately 70 acres of land around the North end of Belfast City Airport 's runway for development as a nature park . |
| 2 | Failure to establish guilt in the criminal court does not preclude consideration of a child 's need for protection in which the child 's welfare will be paramount . |
| 3 | Even a horse 's need for drinking water can become distorted . |
| 4 | From his period of employment in an Irish pub , Amiss was well accustomed to its denizens ' congenital gregariousness : this went hand in hand with a complete inability to understand anyone else 's need for peace . |
| 5 | Management 's need for accountability is not satisfied and doctors are uncertain about the balance between their clinical and managerial roles . |
| 6 | It presents its evidence impartially , and so is useful to those who do not accept Russia 's need for shock therapy as well as to those who do . |
| 7 | For a start , they argue , America has already told Jordan that it wants to be friends again ( watch to see if America leans on Israel to be more accommodating to Jordan 's need for water ) . |
| 8 | Of the animal 's need for water , he points out , ‘ like us , and in this respect unlike flowers , they prefer to have these needs satisfied ’ ( 89 ) . |
| 9 | Elizabeth 's legitimacy as Anne Boleyn 's daughter depended upon the validity of her father 's divorce , and the new government was also propelled in an anti-papal direction by the crown 's need for money and by the general uneasiness about the papal attitude to expropriated church property . |
| 10 | It means that necessarily there have been variations in people 's need for support from their kin , and in the capacity of kin to provide it . |
| 11 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 12 | The variation in people 's need for support , and in the capacity of relatives to provide it , is not simply a matter of demography or the force of economic circumstances . |
| 13 | Equally people 's need for support from relatives specifically has to be related to whatever alternative provisions exist at any given time . |
| 14 | Some cater for the public 's need for insurance or pension provision . |
| 15 | The merchant seaman 's need for benevolence did not go entirely unnoticed in the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Any exercises which increase the body 's need for oxygen will be exercising the heart and lungs . |
| 17 | The speaker assumes that the listener shares the speaker 's need for closeness and the view that both parties have a lot in common . |
| 18 | At around five , Amiss 's need for sleep triumphed over his good nature and he hurled a paperback in Sunil 's direction . |
| 19 | Developed by a consortium of seven centres , the award is designed to meet industry 's need for technician engineers with interdisciplinary skills . |
| 20 | This second dimension is concerned with the individual 's need for honour and reputation . |
| 21 | The need to harmonize national laws was bound to be frustrated by the Treaty 's need for unanimity as between all twelve member states . |
| 22 | She argued strongly that nineteenth-century feminism had neglected women 's need for love and a family life ( although this was by no means wholly the case ) and that sexual equality did not necessarily mean ‘ sameness ’ . |
| 23 | Although formalised assessment is useful , other factors such as physical illness , family support , degree of isolation , concurrent psychiatric symptomatology etc are likely to determine an individual 's need for day hospital attendance . |
| 24 | This is difficult to define satisfactorily , but in the context of brief therapy it involves the therapist suggesting to the patient the possible motivation underlying his behaviour , with the objective of increasing understanding as a step towards behaviour change ( e.g. overeating may be explained in terms of a patient 's need for comfort at times of loneliness so that the patient may be more able to tackle the problem ) . |
| 25 | Old reflexes and outsider instincts , along with its army 's need for cash ( see page 76 ) , make it want to duck great-power responsibilities and go on quietly selling dangerous nuclear technologies to the Irans of the world , and missiles and other advanced equipment to rogue regimes anywhere . |
| 26 | social reasons : to meet an individual 's need for companionship ; |
| 27 | The first is associated with the state 's need for autonomy from society . |
| 28 | A horse 's need for self-esteem can be extended in different ways to suit us . |
| 29 | RAMBLERS have renewed calls for an independent inquiry into the army 's need for training land . |
| 30 | Belinda waited quietly , sensing her patient 's need for distraction , but wanting to take a cue from Faye herself before launching into shallow chat . |