Example sentences of "need to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter sometimes thought the superintendent took the need to be polite to the public too far . |
| 2 | When I reluctantly put him back in his shoe box , I had a desperate need to be close to ‘ Fred ’ the person . |
| 3 | In the first instance , there is a need to be alert to the potential for , and presence of , crime in conventional and ordinary settings . |
| 4 | This theme — the need to be fair to ‘ the majority ’ — emerges again and again in this document 's defence of the rule , and bolsters up the most tenuous arguments . |
| 5 | ‘ Daddy , there 's no need to be rude to Miles . ’ |