Example sentences of "we need [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What training , in languages and other skills , do we need to be ready for the single market ? |
| 2 | Well the question then is do we need to be charging work supervisors |
| 3 | Sergei and Masha came to my room and I opened a bottle of mineral water : we all felt we needed to be abstemious . |
| 4 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 5 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 6 | We needed to be clear about the nature and purpose of English as a school subject . |
| 7 | We need to be reasonable in our demands as parents are also under pressure to dig in their pockets for spare cash to support brownies , cubs , clubs , churches and a whole range of other worthy causes . |
| 8 | We need to be certain that the revelation stems from God ; and we can not be as certain of this as we are of our reason-based knowledge of the particular truth in question . |
| 9 | What we need to be certain about is that whatever society is involved in or whatever organisation is involved in balloting that it should be seen to be done properly . |
| 10 | We need to be vigilant , we need to continue to expand the diagnostic skill in recruitment . |
| 11 | We need to be shining lights in the darkness . |
| 12 | We need to be sure that they respect us and trust us . |
| 13 | When we identify common ground we need to be sure that we are not making assumptions about other people 's values and interests . |
| 14 | We need to be sure of the relevance of the circumstances Paul is describing if we are to seek to apply his principles to our lives now . |
| 15 | To feel this we need to be sure that other people are making similar sacrifices or , if they are not , that there are acceptable grounds for their not doing so . |
| 16 | So first we need to be sure that the other record is in fact reliable and , second , we need to remember how little total evidence we have from the ancient past . |
| 17 | We shall not be satisfied with a theory which does less than justice to the biblical view of the nature of man , but at the same time we need to be sure that we really have grasped the biblical view , and not just read our own ideas into it . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think so but we need to be sure . |
| 19 | Finally , and most importantly , we need to be sure of the reliability of the information . |
| 20 | But to do that we need to be sure that the policy is appropriate , does reflect national policy . |
| 21 | To do this we need to be alert to the processes going on within society and the economy , what range of alternatives is available , who can and should take part in the decision-making process , and what the effects of the various possible outcomes might be . |
| 22 | Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment . |
| 23 | We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world . |
| 24 | As things stand , the visual system is proving a good model to guide investigation of other sensory systems but we need to be cautious about interpreting data and to avoid forcing these other systems into a straitjacket defined by the visual system . |
| 25 | Do n't forget that THERE IS NO CUT BACK IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WANTING A CLASS but future methods of provision may be varied and unfamiliar , we need to be adaptable and keep our eyes wide open to take advantage of every opportunity . |
| 26 | Erm , we need to be convincing in challenge , otherwise the challenge , erm , we should question whether there is a need for any change , erm , if things have been done in a certain way for a certain period of time , erm , just because we want to change them , does n't mean to say that it does n't |
| 27 | We need to be innovative and extrovert , looking to the future and the continued enhancement of the Institute and I think we will always be enriched by the direct entrants so long as these continue to be strictly monitored . |
| 28 | We need to be respectable . |
| 29 | If this is so , we need to be positive and confident about our experiences , and we should try to export our best attributes to others in the community . |
| 30 | There 's only one death we need to be frightened of , and that 's our own . " |