Example sentences of "necessary [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their tasks included collecting taxes and when necessary producing labourers for public works on dams , canals or bridges ; and enlisting the required numbers of men for the army who lacked the money to buy themselves out of national service . |
| 2 | At the time when those measures were being skilfully and carefully introduced , we were also carrying through a whole range of highly necessary reforming legislation . |
| 3 | The Law Society provided the necessary administrative structure . |
| 4 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 5 | It has found that all of the councils should have the necessary administrative arrangements in place to issue bills no later than the end of April and to begin enforcement action by May or early June . |
| 6 | Mr Ashdown is not content with imposing his version of stability as a temporary expedient , a regrettably necessary short-term tactic . |
| 7 | As part of a reassessment of its priorities , SERC has had to look at the balance of its forward planning , in particular to ensure that the funding of grants can recover from necessary short-term stringencies . |
| 8 | Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments . |
| 9 | A number of cases exist where companies have been forced to employ new materials and processes outside their normal ( up until then ) field of operation , resulting in a period of component or equipment failures until the company has been able to acquire that necessary working experience . |
| 10 | The subsequent general meeting voted 397–227 for amalgamation , below the necessary two-thirds majority ( SE 6 September 19 ) . |
| 11 | However , when the USSR Supreme Soviet convened for its third session on Feb. 14 , the Presidium unexpectedly failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for a proposal to call the Congress of People 's Deputies into emergency session by the end of February to make the necessary constitutional changes . |
| 12 | Since an earlier election date would require the premature dissolution of the Bundestag by means of a constitutional amendment requiring the votes of the SPD to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority , Kohl on Aug. 9 abandoned plans for early elections and reconfirmed Dec. 2 as the election date . |
| 13 | In a subsequent vote to overturn the veto , the House fell six votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority , with 260 votes for and 138 votes against . |
| 14 | The coalition of the PNP and Frente Obrero di Liberashon ( FOL ) , plus the Union Patriotico Bonairiano ( UBP ) and the two representatives from St Eustatius and Saba , was reconstituted to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority in the Staten and exclude the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) , whose leader , Claude Wathey , favoured independence for his island . |
| 15 | The Congress on Dec. 25 gave the necessary two-thirds majority approval to all save one of Gorbachev 's original proposals , after a contentious debate . |
| 16 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 17 | On May 13 the bill was approved by the Soviet of the Union , but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority in the Soviet of Nationalities . |
| 18 | On June 13 the Sejm failed by only seven votes to reach the necessary two-thirds majority to override Walesa 's veto . |
| 19 | In the combined Congress , the PRI thus had the necessary two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution . |
| 20 | By deepening the partisan rift , the Thomas affair also cast its shadow over the Senate 's attempt to override the President , which failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority by two votes on Oct. 16 . |
| 21 | Speaker Thomas S. Foley expressed confidence that this would be overridden , but the House — also on Nov. 19 — fell 12 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority in its 276-156 vote , also on Nov. 19 , when 43 Democrats joined with 113 Republicans in backing Bush . |
| 22 | The voting reached the necessary two-thirds majority , with 414 in favour and 95 against . |
| 23 | The Bundesrat had opposed the reform , referring it to a conciliation commission of both houses of parliament in April , but lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to block the bill again in early June . |
| 24 | By falling 27 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority the House ensured that Bush maintained his record of never having had a veto overturned . |
| 25 | The General Synod of the Church of England on Nov. 11 approved , with the necessary two-thirds majority in each of its three houses , a measure to permit the ordination of women priests . |
| 26 | The Sunday programme 's poll follows another survey by BBC Radio 4 's Today programme suggesting that the opinion in the House of Laity is within a hair's-breadth of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 27 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 28 | Such a development would avoid the unnecessary replication of contracts , but to implement it requires the necessary political will to exist in Europe . |
| 29 | A major role for the peace movement is therefore to help to overcome this fear , and to work actively to put forward constructive disarmament suggestions , and to continue to take the necessary political actions to ensure that the issue remains in the forefront of public attention . |
| 30 | One should beware the temptation of ‘ reading off ’ from the high demographic homogeneity of this category any necessary political homogenisation ( a temptation to which Goldthorpe appears to give way ) . |