Example sentences of "[pers pn] requires [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now she requires expensive nursing .
2 To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay .
3 While catalytic converters may cost the manufacturer around £50 to buy , to fit them requires skilled labour and may well bump up the price of a new car by between £100 and £1000 depending on the model .
4 This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route !
5 In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light .
6 This is known to happen in bees ( Greenberg 1979 ) and isopods ( Linsenmair 1972 ) ; it requires surprising powers of discrimination , and some memory .
7 Carbon fibre tubes have cured much of this ; but the fourth bridle line is used on larger sport kites even though it requires accurate adjustment to balance with the other lines .
8 However , it requires accurate monitoring of emissions and air quality , as well as an effective supervision and enforcement system for this strategy to be successful .
9 Usually it requires external funding to meet costs of staff and data processing .
10 It is not widely grown in Britain , as it requires strong land and considerably higher temperatures than other cereals .
11 Much of it requires mental effort to work through , effort which Taylor should have put in before writing off Darwinian explanations as ‘ pathetic ’ or ‘ ludicrous .
12 It requires major investigation and grave charges of conspiracy and riot . ’
13 It requires great skill on the part of the teacher to match tasks to attainment levels and in reality it will prove unusual starting from a core to have a task which only addresses one level within one target .
14 It requires great tact and perseverance to make some people accept a coaching atmosphere .
15 It requires great restraint not to smother children with good intentions , to endure those looks of disappointment , and to banish feelings of guilt when one puts oneself first .
16 It requires great care and its use must be precise , consistent and persistent .
17 It requires small businesses , many of which do not provide insurance , to join one of 11 huge regional bargaining pools around the state .
18 However , it requires long-term thinking , in terms of the industry 's future funding .
19 Change is often resisted because it can be a nuisance and an interference ; it requires other people to stop what they are doing or redirect their thinking .
20 It requires collective agreement in the form of government to define the property rights that are the objects of exchange and to enforce contract through the legal system .
21 Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch .
22 Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved .
23 Controlling epidemics is important in preventing infection and , in this age of travel , is a concern which extends beyond the boundaries of any one nation ; it requires international collaboration .
24 But it requires alkaline water and propagates freely from stem-cuttings .
25 The domestic water supply should be checked to determine whether it requires additional treatment before use .
26 It requires extra software , and the IBM XT emulator for the Acorn Archimedes with the ARM microprocessor using RISC architecture ( based on the original RISC I design ) runs slower than the Intel 8088 , the slowest of the PC processors , under the MS-DOS operating system.Also as RISCs are designed with high-level languages in mind , designing in assembly is very tedious unlike assembly programming with CISCs where there are instructions for complex tasks and so programming is relatively simple and , as a result , less time-consuming .
27 For the hemiplegic patient , it requires extra care , because the patient is likely to be sitting still for much of the day , which in itself may make him more prone to infections , and the risk is magnified if there is any damp or dirty material next to his skin .
28 It requires total support and trust .
29 This makes the determination of shear modulus by a torsion test a difficult task and it requires careful experimentation .
30 [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow .
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