Example sentences of "[adj] need for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 2 | There is a clear need for any judge or court intending to exercise the wasted costs jurisdiction to formulate carefully and concisely the complaint and grounds upon which such an order may be sought . |
| 3 | He liked to think of Beamish in the dock at the Central Court , his counsel blustering on about his client 's perfectly normal , acceptable need for heavy metal poisons ( ‘ But how do you explain , Mr Beamish , your ordering a quantity of thallium from a perfectly reputable chemist 's … ? ’ ) |
| 4 | The directorate has a continual need for processed information to support decision making , to develop policy and advice for Academic Board and Governors , and to satisfy the appetite of external bodies such as DF.S , CNAA , NAB/PCFC , etc. for numerical information From time to time there is also the need for high quality information to support particular initiatives , such as the ( successful ) application for accreditation . |
| 5 | The United States of the 1990s has a manifest need for independent thought . |
| 6 | In assessing additional needs for educational expenditure ( AEN ) and the needs for Personal Social Services for children aged less than 17 , both the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Health and Social Security use better estimates , which give a total of nearly 1.5 million children in lone-parent families . |
| 7 | I think there is a very real need for strategic guidance to be given by appropriate criteria being included in policy H two . |
| 8 | a real need for after-school care in rural areas … worry for working mothers |
| 9 | In the many isolated mountain areas distances from Vets and mechanics provided real problems for farmers and the indications were that there was a real need for more training in these areas . |
| 10 | Because many new mums ca n't produce enough expressed milk — or choose not to breastfeed — there 's a real need for donated milk from milk banks , but according to the National Childbirth Trust these are becoming few and far between . |
| 11 | The government has also failed to accept the real need for improved provision at school level in this area . |
| 12 | Penning-Rowsell has also concluded that these were inspired by a growing awareness of landscape deterioration , through either urban expansion or inadequate management , and a perceived need for increased protection of those areas of greatest landscape quality . |
| 13 | Each review group was asked to assess current and future needs for each specialty . |
| 14 | Yet there was a crucial need for such action because the years of recovery between 1945 and 1951 had not solved major , underlying problems in the British economy . |
| 15 | Thus Turner has written that the sporadic appearance of trade unionism arose not from the absence of collective association but from the " intermittence " of the actual need for collective action " . |
| 16 | From the organisation chart and the senior management team stems the absolute need for detailed job descriptions for all members of the organisation . |
| 17 | Where the treaty language indicates the parties ' intention that the Canal shall have international usage , that the regime shall be permanent , and is to further the global need for open communication routes it seems that third party rights must be recognised . |
| 18 | Between elections the paramount need for any Home Secretary is to maintain the support of his own party members , a task made harder in each of the major parties by the fact that local party workers often hold more extreme views on what should be done than do Ministers . |
| 19 | There is a similar need for auditory discrimination since the differences between ‘ hat ’ and ‘ hut ’ , and ‘ fin ’ and ‘ thin' are again subtle but significant . |
| 20 | Thus , although until recently the position of those who are tended by and ‘ tend ’ old people in the same household has been too little discussed and merits more sensitive and systematic consideration , there is a similar need for informed debate about nearly three-quarters of elderly people in the UK who live separately from younger people . |
| 21 | In India there was an additional need for female protection among the Muslims . |
| 22 | The transsexual individual , although unquestionably male or female in physical and genital appearance and gender , has an intense feeling of being a man trapped in woman 's form , or vice versa and , usually , an obsessive need for sexual realignment . |
| 23 | The report details the targets which the Working Party developed for five main areas of public health concern , and the associated needs for improved information and data sources . |
| 24 | This directory , although it includes clearinghouses established outside the USA , highlights the problem of the large number of state and specialist clearinghouses in the USA and the possible need for some co-ordination and co-operation between them . |
| 25 | Families are almost bound to be aware of the slippage in faculties or capacity to cope of an older family member , long before there is an expressed need for some form of group care , whether day care or residential care . |
| 26 | From psychology : Animals in general have an inherent need for some kind of aggressive outlet . |
| 27 | Sex therefore is ideally suited to fulfill the human need for close body contact . |
| 28 | ‘ Anti-statist ’ ideas of consumerism and individual citizen responsibility may be respectable enough , but government seems to have not much further to say — beyond a vaguely humanitarian appeal to the ‘ social market ’ : it develops as yet publicly no vision of coherent aims , no serious analysis of pressing social and economic issues , their territories and their boundaries , no perception of the system flexibility that could satisfy both ideology and the real national need for effective progress . |
| 29 | This interpretation assumes that the objective need for institutional care has not been reduced by improved health and fitness of old people . |
| 30 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |