Example sentences of "[adv] need a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forget the old adage about non-stop bicycling ; the growing Community badly needs a decade of constitutional calm . |
| 2 | — Andrew Crisp from Winchester , during economic policy debate ‘ Any party that has Dennis Skinner as its chairman and Neil Kinnock as leader , badly needs a hero . ’ |
| 3 | Aid policy badly needs a rethink |
| 4 | Unless the solicitor is prepared to act without charge , at the point at which the client most needs a lawyer , the lawyer apparently abandons the case . |
| 5 | We will obviously need a period of consultation in government before we introduce legislation . |
| 6 | Upvc does n't rot , split or warp , it ca n't be attacked by insects , it does n't need painting , and only needs a wash down with detergent , and a rinse . |
| 7 | ‘ The weir will last a lifetime , ’ Nigel said , ‘ and the millpond only needs a bit of clearing out . ’ |
| 8 | he only needs a couple to get them |
| 9 | He has said that one only needs a dispensation from the mines inspectorate . |
| 10 | I do n't know , I just do n't know anyway I mean it only needs a yard do n't it ? |
| 11 | Barbel Bohley , a founder of the New Forum reform group , said on West German television that ‘ one has the feeling that it only needs a spark for everything to blow up here ’ . |
| 12 | It only needs a spark from here to land in the stable hay and we 'll lose them all . ’ |
| 13 | Being by Sharpen Up , a proven ‘ sire of sires ’ , Sure Sharp would only need a bit more Pattern success to earn himself a place at stud . |
| 14 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 15 | The Garden Hosepipe Controller is mains-powered so needs a supply socket available nearby . |
| 16 | As 9 is one that obviously needs a lot of work and a lot of thought on it . |
| 17 | So well she obviously needs a fag and a cup of tea before she |
| 18 | Two of the Kamalians only needed a couple of metres of the wire to render him helpless and under continual self-torture . |
| 19 | Page only needed a par four on the ninth green , his final hole , to prevent a play-off and win by a stroke from the 20-year-old from Drayton Park , Staffordshire . |
| 20 | Apart from fuel and servicing , the last one only needed a replacement throttle cable in 38,000 miles . |
| 21 | I do n't use limousines and the straits have only needed a security person once . |
| 22 | No , because she had , she only needed a teenager left , she done the fifty to sixty age group |
| 23 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 24 | The pinafore version naturally needed a blouse and items in unbleached white cotton were the cheapest of all to produce . |
| 25 | With my new kidney scar , I only needed a hernia to link them up . |
| 26 | He then only needed a pitching-wedge and he hit it straight at the pin to about 18 feet or so . |
| 27 | Kitchens that were tiled so that they only needed a wipe down the walls and a quick mop of the floor . |
| 28 | If you take these for a very long time you get a beard and a deep voice , but as I only needed a month 's supply I escaped such horrors . |
| 29 | Leicester only needed a draw to make progress in the Cup . |
| 30 | At last it had been cold enough to need a blanket and a quilt , to hold Zosie in his arms without the sweat pouring off them both . |