Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the need of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final part ‘ Towards the intimate machine ’ , discusses the possibility of developing computer systems with personalities and the ability to adjust to the need of the human user . |
| 2 | Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State . |
| 3 | It also seems as if they are at last more prepared to listen to the needs of the local skaters and on top of this a local developer has pledged ten thousand pounds towards the new facility so the future do n't look so gloomy after all . |
| 4 | Laziness is a vile and shallow thing , practised by wicked individuals who refuse to administer to the needs of the Apathé . |
| 5 | What is needed are some prophets , some evangelists , some pastors and teachers ( Ephesians 4 : 11–12 ) , some whose gift is to serve , some to contribute to the needs of others , some to encourage , some to lead ( but not all ) , some to show mercy cheerfully ( Romans 12 : 6–8 ) . |
| 6 | Meeting the need is very much the rationale for the creation of the English commercial court , which has consciously tried to accommodate to the needs of the City of London , especially in international insurance and shipping . |
| 7 | For the middle classes , able to live a comfortable life with servants to take care of domestic matters and to minister to the needs of dependent members of the household , giving a home to an elderly relative would not have meant the automatic provision of unpaid care by female relatives . |
| 8 | The other girls followed suit , and the waitress , after a moment 's hesitation , wrung in turn the outstretched hands before hurrying off to attend to the needs of a customer who , to judge by his impatience , was in the last stages of starvation . |
| 9 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 10 | Libraries , adult education and leisure centres and other local agencies are beginning to respond to the needs of older people in the leisure field . |
| 11 | Western politicians like Lynda Chalker , the British aid minister , have tried to reassure them : ‘ Britain will continue to respond to the needs of the developing world , ’ she said in mid-January 1990 . |
| 12 | Local Management of Schools must be judged on how far it enables the whole education service to respond to the needs of all pupils in the locality . |
| 13 | Since all we have belongs to God , we must be open to respond to the needs of others . |
| 14 | But ‘ before the role and scope of audit can be widened to respond to the needs of ‘ stakeholders ’ in companies , a solution must be found to the financial threat posed by risks to auditing firms arising from litigation in the current legal framework . ’ |
| 15 | London is highly geared to respond to the needs of expatriates from many countries . |
| 16 | The course is under constant review and is planned flexibly to enable tutors to respond to the needs of particular groups of students , but the following three paragraphs itemise some of the particular emphases given to language during the three years . |
| 17 | This may result in lower capacity and thus increase the inability for TI and NCM to respond to the needs of their exporting policyholders . |
| 18 | The Yarns and Fabrics business has undertaken substantial changes to respond to the needs of a difficult market , and now looks set to reap the rewards as demand picks up . |
| 19 | Those families in which a parent died from an illness known in advance to be terminal seemed to be better able to respond to the needs of their children , and to prepare them for the loss with information and emotional support . |
| 20 | But secondly , would potentially provide an opportunity in future , where Social Services could in its direct role of developing services to assist older people and other clients of the Department , could base those activities , and that without this base available it would be very difficult to respond to the needs of that area . |
| 21 | In Slovenia a psychiatrist has been advising staff in refugee camps as to how to respond to the needs of traumatised children . |
| 22 | The financing of local government is er again circumscribed , local government 's ability to respond to the needs of the community it serves as it and its electors deem appropriate is being curtailed yet again and of course local government is losing its independence to central government and this centralising tendency which this settlement further represents is one of the most pernicious and corrosive characteristics of the modern Conservative party . |
| 23 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |