Example sentences of "need for [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours .
2 ‘ How much of your clobber will you need for your first two days ? ’
3 Much of what you will need for your study will be in the literary texts you have chosen — especially if you are reading annotated critical editions .
4 Well what costume do you need for your dress rehearsal ?
5 How many shoes do we need for our feet or gloves for our hands ?
6 As we loaded up the trucks with everything we would need for our month away at Canjuers I felt that we might be about to learn some soldiering .
7 Is this the full complement of men you 'll need for our next operation ? ’
8 The fountains in the Piazza Navona , and then the Fontana di Trevi , and the Campo de ’ Fiori where we can buy what we 'll need for our picnic — ’
9 The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat .
10 A critical attitude needs for its raw material , as it were , theories or beliefs which are held more or less dogmatically .
11 The latter lis primarily concerned with supplying the basic ‘ building blocks ’ that C&P needs for its major downstream manufacturing operations .
12 er Nothing or nobody in England make anything anywhere near to what she needs for her disability .
13 The muscles bounce ; thus the runner gains back from the environment most of the energy he needs for his rebound .
14 ‘ So Edouard has the investment capital he needs for his expansion programme ? ’
15 The romantic element in adventure stones is one of several processes of selection by which a writer takes from his raw material — from real life , if you like — what he needs for his particular fiction .
16 In Wolfenstein 's words ( 1955 ) , ‘ What the baby wants for pleasure has thus become as legitimate a demand as what he needs for his physical well-being , and is to be treated in the same way . ’
17 He does not observe or understand them as lessons in natural history , but knows their names and as much about their habits and life-history as he needs for his purpose .
18 " And it 's a decent doctor he needs for his cough . "
19 If the building is no longer needed for its original purpose , could it be put to a new use ?
20 A great enthusiast for Impressionism , he both conceived the idea of the Museum and gave the FFr120 million needed for its realisation through the Terra Foundation for the Arts .
21 The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " .
22 Just £1,200 was needed for her caesarean delivery .
23 One useful function of hypotheses is that they help to indicate what data are needed for their testing .
24 Strong central control would have been needed for their successful operation on the scale archaeologists envisage .
25 The daily contact between a young gardener and a young cook , conferring about the fruit and vegetables needed for their employer 's meals , led to their falling in love and marriage , and my birth nine months later .
26 As far as possible , the policies adopted for the management of our information resources should be independent of the actual information technology needed for their use .
27 The Atlantic Charter signed by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941 called for action to give ‘ all states access , on equal terms , to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity ’ .
28 FK Austria , who played Arsenal in the European Cup two seasons ago , claim they can not afford to pay the insurance cover needed for their international release .
29 FK Austria , who played Arsenal in the European Cup two seasons ago , claim they can not afford to pay the insurance cover needed for their international release .
30 Ms d'Harnoncourt , the only woman in the running , failed to make the short list because , according to Dr Murphy , ‘ She did n't quite have the administrative skills needed for our museum ’ .
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