Example sentences of "he need [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearce believes a professional manager can be equally successful at running a variety of companies , but he needs to be selective about the switches he makes . |
| 2 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 3 | In Heseltine 's case , it must already be approaching the danger level ; he needs to be vigilant that nothing he says or does reinforces it . |
| 4 | He needs to be aware of the social reasons pulling at ordinary people , the conditions of work in an industrial society , the nature of a people 's amusements . |
| 5 | There may be areas of the garden which are specially suitable for the patient to work in : he needs to be able to reach the soil with his hands or tools without risking scratching himself on thorny plants or hitting his head or eyes on jutting or overhanging branches . |
| 6 | Once lying down , the patient may practise the movements needed to move into lying on his side and to get up out of bed : for these , he needs to be able to move his shoulder girdle , trunk and pelvis in isolation from each other . |
| 7 | True , he needs to be able to read a line on a green , or at least confirm the line into the hole , but getting the yardages right are of paramount importance . |
| 8 | For example , he needs to be able to identify himself and give personal facts about himself . |
| 9 | He needs to be able to ask factual questions concerning his environment ( time of buses or trains , finding his way about a city , etc ) and understand the answers to these questions . |
| 10 | He needs to be able to exchange ideas , express moods and emotions . |
| 11 | Finally he has decided that I 'm just the vet he needs to be responsible for their health . ’ |
| 12 | This had to be done and he needed to be unconscious . |
| 13 | He needed to be sure that current arrangements were working as well as possible before the Government 's review next year of whether competition in basic telecoms should be extended beyond the two companies . |
| 14 | He needed to be alone ; to start unravelling the knots . |
| 15 | He needed to be alone . |
| 16 | I knew that he needed to be alone to think about all that he had heard . |
| 17 | Mr Vernon Malcolm , managing director of the company which supplies parts for Nissan , said most of his employees were paid at least £3.40 an hour , but he needed to be able to set his own rates of pay rather than having them imposed by government . |
| 18 | That was why he needed to be funny with other people . |
| 19 | Now Helen , loving and admiring him , had given him the confidence he needed to be happy . |