Example sentences of "we need " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges . |
| 2 | We need not agree entirely with Rousseau in order to accept his insight that election times are special . |
| 3 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 4 | But we need not only to learn how to look at the world with the eyes of a Mexican Indian — and I hardly think that Lawrence succeeded — and we certainly can not afford to stop there . |
| 5 | We need not discuss the results in detail except to note the following points . |
| 6 | We need n't even have a camera in the room . |
| 7 | I remember my own mother saying , when I was undergoing tests to discover why my periods had stopped , that we need n't worry , they were an expensive nuisance , what did I want periods for anyway ? |
| 8 | I think we need not only a strong parliament but also a strong presidency . ’ |
| 9 | We need not , however , rely solely upon the works of old masters to bring to mind the lore that is associated with numerous plants . |
| 10 | We need not worry about families or superfamilies in this book , but classes often correspond to everyday groups of animals . |
| 11 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 12 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 13 | For the present all we need do is point to the logical gap between pluralism and neutrality . |
| 14 | We need n't detain these gentlemen ’ |
| 15 | For , as William Bodham Donne noted : ‘ To touch our emotions , we need not the imaginatively true , but the physically real . |
| 16 | Our vet came out early that morning with some sedative , but we need n't have bothered . |
| 17 | And we need not fear the pain and weakness . |
| 18 | Because we are old , we need not be useless . |
| 19 | We need not concern ourselves with the views expressed in newspapers which are wholly controlled by the state in totalitarian societies . |
| 20 | To assess the state of organic maturity in the thrust province properly we need do know three main things : the geometry of the thrust sheets including the present thickness of rocks of different ages , the amount of pre-Mesozoic erosion , and past geothermal gradients . |
| 21 | Public dispositions raise additional questions , for where there is a public interest we need not suppose that all was left to regulation by the remedies of private law . |
| 22 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 23 | We need clean rivers even more than the rest of the population of our planet ! |
| 24 | Well , if you 'll convey my apologies to Miss Smith , I think we 've said all we need say . |
| 25 | Its growth was to cause a storm of protest in the next century from archbishops less inclined to travel than Sigeric ; but we need not doubt that it arose because Sigeric and his like were delighted to have an excuse to go on pilgrimage , and the diary he has left of his movements dwells especially on the many churches in Rome worth a pilgrim 's attention . |
| 26 | As I do not suggest or recommend that we reduce our intake to such a very low level , we need not concern ourselves that we will eat insufficient quantities to endanger our health . |
| 27 | The world is full of pain but we need n't add to it . |
| 28 | All we need do is experience and acknowledge our Shadow self , so that we no longer need to project it onto the outside world . |
| 29 | Though he extended these four levels into seventeen very specific levels of mechanisation , we need not concern ourselves here with that level of detail . |
| 30 | This supposition is mistaken , according to the argument of this book ; the imperative to become equally aware from different spatial , temporal and personal viewpoints is independent of moral traditions and habits , and we need not doubt that under any conditions spontaneity will continue to channel itself in selfish or unselfish directions with inequality or equality of awareness . |