Example sentences of "it need [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price at which timber for building is bought has been higher than it need be and the amount much smaller for two reasons : Government buying and Government decisions . |
| 2 | This raises issues about the direction of the National Health Service and the continued dominance of acute services in the face of the increasing needs of growing numbers of people with chronic and degenerative conditions , which an editorial in The Economist recently described as ‘ types of misery that make old age worse than it need be . ’ |
| 3 | This makes cross-border co-operation more difficult than it need be . |
| 4 | In the case of bush and shrub types , this will ideally be from the base of the plant to avoid the main road from becoming any longer than it need be , and to preserve and constrain the overall size of the bush . |
| 5 | It restricts the mobility of workers and so keeps unemployment higher than it need be : people who own their homes are less willing to move to another area to find a job . |
| 6 | A high specification of housework rules can be seen as a common response to a common problem — the problem being how to make sense of work that is intrinsically unsatisfying under conditions where less and less of it need be done ( through automation , ‘ convenience ’ foods , better housing conditions , etc ) , but where the structural pressures which assign women to the home remain as strong as ever . |
| 7 | Their power to do justice will become more restricted by law than it need be , or is today . |
| 8 | The fear that many teenage mothers have when they are wheeled into the delivery room makes the experience more painful and terrifying than it need be . |
| 9 | ‘ My sight is as sharp as it need be , ’ said Tutilo . |
| 10 | This , and other similar non-standard methods make d'Compress harder to use than it need be . |
| 11 | Therefore , even if complex real-world situations can only be represented by complex models , the proponents of the object-oriented model argue that it is only as it need be to represent these situations on computers and to manipulate those representations for the purpose of processing queries . |
| 12 | An over-sophisticated document may make that task far more difficult than it need be . |