Example sentences of "do not need " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I I do not need an adjournment but may I back away from the microphone to take instruction ? |
| 2 | Tony Benn , who Mr O'Neill recalled was a member of a Labour Cabinet committed to nuclear defence , insisted that Britain did not need nuclear weapons because there was no Soviet threat . |
| 3 | Mr Honecker and his men , boasting confidently that their economy was so well run it did not need Soviet-style reforms , were banking on the expectation that Mr Gorbachev would fail . |
| 4 | The Chancellor might be forced to raise rates again if sterling took a nosedive , but he did not need to sit with his finger on the trigger . |
| 5 | They said they had come to Britain because they did not need a visa and because they thought it was a free country . |
| 6 | God in no way needs the world and He did not need to make it : creation is the expression of His pure outgoing love and indeed traditional Christian teaching has held that one day this present world will come to an end but God will still be the same God . |
| 7 | Another sign of security was the rising number of households which did not need to buy seeds , but planted their own 634 in the autumn of 1922 , as against 554 in 1920 . |
| 8 | He did not need words to join in this act , he could use the words of the prayer book or his own words , but he needed no words at all . |
| 9 | But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes . |
| 10 | They did not need to . |
| 11 | She did not need , while wearing boots with the mud still on them , to give the teacher an advanced lesson in maths . |
| 12 | The employer of wage labour , by contrast , did not need to have this concern with the welfare of his workers . |
| 13 | The rest of the remark he left unsaid , but it did not need spelling out . |
| 14 | Erika did not need that last qualification . |
| 15 | He did not need Albert to pay his fare on the Irish packet for , at last , he was an independent man , earning his own living . |
| 16 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 17 | The Kings did not need to be at their pearly best to win 111-77 . |
| 18 | ‘ The fact that the Department had , in effect , advised the partnership that it did not need a licence made it difficult for the Department to point a finger of blame at them , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 19 | Of 60 fund managers asked last year , 55 did not regard IR officers as their primary company contacts ; 33 thought that British industry did not need any more IR consultants . |
| 20 | Looking back , it seems remarkable that only in the 1950s did white people come to accept — grudgingly for the most part — that black people did not need white people in positions of authority to lead and guide them . |
| 21 | The most infuriating charge was that the health service was different from business and therefore did not need the benefit of the techniques that had been developed in business and industry . |
| 22 | One did not need to go up into space to see that Earth 's resources should be used ( though not used up ) for all its inhabitants . |
| 23 | He did not need to pay for it . |
| 24 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 25 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 26 | He did not need to raise his voice or even explain that this was his final word on the matter . |
| 27 | They did not need special fitness regimes . |
| 28 | Alida did not need her , Alida could surely manage , surely was not afraid to be left alone ? |
| 29 | Walking well that day , he did not need a stick . |
| 30 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |