Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] need for " in BNC.

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1 The observed differences in the prevalence of retinopathy and need for laser treatment between these two groups remained significant .
2 Chodorow suggests that the concentration of childcare in women 's hands brings daughters to identify symbiotically with their mothers , and to carry this interdependency and need for mutual mothering into future relationships , most especially with their own children .
3 Earlier the Azapo leadership had met Mandela and leaders of the United Democratic Front ( UDF ) for " exploratory " talks on " the necessity and need for unity " among black political organizations .
4 The desire or need for a fresh start arose either because , as in the United States , some neighbouring communities wished to unite together under a new government ; or because , as in Austria or Hungary or Czechoslovakia after 1918 , communities had been released from an Empire as the result of a war and were now free to govern themselves ; or because , as in France in 1789 or the U.S.S.R. in 1917 , a revolution had made a break with the past and a new form of government on new principles was desired ; or because , as in Germany after 1918 or in France in 1875 or in 1946 , defeat in war had broken the continuity of government and a fresh start was needed after the war .
5 The children 's bedroom seemed to me like a microcosm of maturer communities : the same shifting alliances , occasional irritations , necessity for tolerance and need for periods of privacy .
6 The circumstances of Japan 's opening to the West thus seemed calculated to reinforce rather than diminish a sense of separateness and need for security in the face of manifestly unequal treatment .
7 Whatever the form of ownership — and there is plenty of room and need for experiment — the aim is the same : to bridge the gap between ownership and control that has grown ever since companies ceased to be run by proprietors in the first half of this century .
8 A detailed working knowledge of the legal system including court procedures is required together with an understanding of the availability and need for internal and external technical and scientific expertise in pursuance of enforcement action .
9 The larger the bureau , the greater the number of specialized tasks , and the greater the potential for conflict and need for co-ordination .
10 The process of psychology tends to offer a denial of personal responsibility in life ; no space is given for the truth of the soul 's own choice of its own learning and need for experience and atonement .
11 Hitting the child harder so that ‘ he will see what it 's like ’ will probably only increase his anger and need for vengeance — besides teaching him that if you are bigger and stronger , -you can always win .
12 But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) .
13 They may also reduce the demand and need for night calls from general practitioners and , taking into account the age and frailty of residents , the pressures on the district nursing service .
14 She felt nothing now but the urgency of her own role , and acted without thought or need for thought .
15 This care manager would be the person ‘ in charge ’ in the community , working closely with the client 's family so as , for example , to arrange appropriate day care , liaise with the housing department on an application for a flat , keep in contact with the community psychiatric nurse about the client 's mental state and need for medication , and so on .
16 Estranged people confront and bury old grievances and learn to recognise their love and need for each other .
17 Until now we have assumed that banks decide for themselves upon the appropriate ratio in the light of their desire for profit and need for liquidity .
18 Indeed , from where is there a proven pressure or need for another set of examinations ? ’ .
19 Anne : Go to the Italian restaurant [ her status and need for control acknowledged , without her needing to sound bossy or assertive ] .
20 A job may take longer than planned , but if the project keeps its importance and its relevance to Soviet needs amid the shifting equations of economic growth and need for foreign exchange — then it will be done .
21 The more lethargic , weak and ill the infant , the greater is the urgency and need for expert advice .
22 Obviously the severity of the wound and the bleeding will dictate the degree of urgency and need for help .
23 Thyroidectomy was performed without problem or need for blood transfusion .
24 That sort of compartmentalization has been roundly denounced by Bob Jones University and those sections of American fundamentalism with which Paisley is most at home but we will never know if his religio-political system would permit such pragmatism because the constitutional issue so overrides everything else in Northern Ireland that there is no expectation or need for him to work with conservative Catholics .
25 It was explained that " they had crossed the Alps in small groups " ( hence the lack of any movement order or need for British transport or supervision ) and " would now join the victorious Allied armies and drive the wicked Russians out of Europe " .
26 The variability of the disorder , however , will inevitably mean that a proportion of such healthy people will prove to have the mutation , with uncertainty as to their prognosis and need for treatment or a change in their lifestyle as well as possible adverse consequences with regard to insurance and employment .
27 ( e ) Social and economic forces brought about the possibility and need for change — 1870 , Boom period , education could be afforded , educated workforce , international econ. rivalry , improve morality , behaviour , social order .
28 Such policies have been directly against the interests of disabled people , whose economic position and need for housing with particular physical characteristics mean that the private sector has little to offer .
29 So it 's not a big expense like you know so that we were n't spending the money on ourselves , it 's just needed in the house and needed for the kids like you know .
30 Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east .
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