Example sentences of "needs for [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat .
2 A critical attitude needs for its raw material , as it were , theories or beliefs which are held more or less dogmatically .
3 The latter lis primarily concerned with supplying the basic ‘ building blocks ’ that C&P needs for its major downstream manufacturing operations .
4 er Nothing or nobody in England make anything anywhere near to what she needs for her disability .
5 The muscles bounce ; thus the runner gains back from the environment most of the energy he needs for his rebound .
6 ‘ So Edouard has the investment capital he needs for his expansion programme ? ’
7 The romantic element in adventure stones is one of several processes of selection by which a writer takes from his raw material — from real life , if you like — what he needs for his particular fiction .
8 In Wolfenstein 's words ( 1955 ) , ‘ What the baby wants for pleasure has thus become as legitimate a demand as what he needs for his physical well-being , and is to be treated in the same way . ’
9 He does not observe or understand them as lessons in natural history , but knows their names and as much about their habits and life-history as he needs for his purpose .
10 " And it 's a decent doctor he needs for his cough . "
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