Example sentences of "[pron] need [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 I need only a letter from you to your bank manager instructing him of your wishes .
2 And in fact , it 's been a that 's why you needed quite a bit doing to it .
3 Right now she needed about a million cups of coffee .
4 Ideally you need just a little one-to-one tuition , preferably after you have struggled on your own for a bit to discover which bits are clear as daylight and which are clear as mud .
5 You need also a course to be provident for the future in terms of ensuring that you will be able to continue to discharge your responsibilities in years to come .
6 At all , no you need either a multi-vitamin or vitamin c .
7 To do these effectively you need either an abdominal board which can be used on an incline , or a plank with one end raised on bricks and a piece of rope tied to that end to hook your feet underneath .
8 Unfortunately , you need either an expensive Kodak Digital Image Recorder to get prints or process the images through DTP software to get colour separations , cromalins or prints .
9 You need only a little of your anti cellulite massage oil — about a teaspoonful for each leg .
10 Now they even have four times concentrated products so you need only a quarter of the measure .
11 Since this is a fun , letting-your-hair-down sort of show , there is also a trampoline , a rocking horse , a model , pedal-powered and car battery-operated train as well as rides on Muffin the Mule for which you need only a 5p token that can be purchased , by the bucketful downstairs .
12 You need quite a bit of attention yourself . ’
13 Now you need quite a bit of practice .
14 you need about a million to four million down there
15 When when the strike first started , being in the summer months we needed quite a strong picket line to talk to the tourists , at various gates cos that was the main source of income at the quarry at that time .
16 So we need both a psychological and a sociological perspective .
17 Some feel that politics is the best route , others that politics is completely irrelevant and that we need instead a spiritual revolution .
18 We need quite a few do n't we ?
19 Okay so let's see , okay things that I bought , right how much and now we need quite a bit sort of across there if we can , if we can get it .
20 and we were geared more to progress in the education system where the industrial change in the other countries did n't happen at the same time and that they needed now a younger ag a younger age group to keep the , the industrial system going
21 That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade .
22 Like children , they require a sense of security , of belonging , and of their own importance to others , yet as young people they need also a sense of growing independence , of self-assertion , of occupational skill and of responsibility .
23 It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities .
24 Whatever the status of this piece of research in modern psychoanalysis , it needs only a cursory glance at the problem pages of women 's magazines , particularly those for an older readership , to find that this syndrome of the woman who considers herself happily married , yet is bewildered by the concept of orgasm which she herself has never experienced , is still familiar .
25 It needs only a couple of well-publicized mercy flights to the United States and appropriate patriotic breast-beating to ensure that liver transplant units spring up like desert flowers after the rain .
26 ( Since this is so filling , it needs only a small green salad to accompany it . )
27 By 1914 it needed only a spark to start the conflagration .
28 It needed only a few moments , and a touch of magi-glue , to insert the cylinder as par of the pedestal .
29 In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck .
30 It needed only a few palm trees and sand to complete the conventional picture of a desert island .
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