Example sentences of "need for an [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 With the advent of such legislation after World War I the creation of a central employers ' association fulfilled the need for an authoritative spokesman to represent employer interests before the legislature .
2 The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference .
3 There was still an urgent need for an international effort to clean up the Gulf and to study the long-term effects of the spills and the burning , the organization said .
4 Henry McLeish , shadow Scottish industry spokesman , said that while Scottish exporters were doing well , there was a need for an industrial strategy to support them involving partnership between government and industry .
5 The programme for the next 10 years should be based on a clear recognition of the need for an early enlargement to include the aspiring EFTA countries , to which the hon. Member for Inverness , Nairn and Lochaber ( Sir R. Johnston ) referred , and the three central European countries — Poland , Hungary and Czechoslovakia — to the east of the Community .
6 They knew that they needed to form a political party that have three main aims , the need for working class M Ps , the need for an independent party to represent working people , the need for a to propagate new Socialist ideals .
7 But it did not eliminate the need for an Anglo-French nobility to mediate between the two powers .
8 While this indicates that the language young children hear may provide useful input for learning the rules of grammar , it does not , of itself , rule out the need for an innate ability to process speech sounds ( Gleitman and Wanner 1982 ) .
9 From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality : the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin , and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves .
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