Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] in need " in BNC.
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1 | It 's possible you 're overtired — or even in need of fresh air . ’ |
2 | The armourers were the scruffiest erks to be seen anywhere — untidy , good-natured , mostly wearing leather jerkins over their battle dress ( held together with pieces of wire ) , and mostly in need of a shave as well . |
3 | Are they scuffed and dented and badly in need of a polish ? |
4 | Or are they biased , faulty and badly in need of revision ? |
5 | I was on a tricky bend , the road falling away sharply and badly in need of a grader . |
6 | The RBG film ‘ The Capital Garden ’ , sponsored by the Bank of Scotland and made in the 1970's , is in an unusable format ( 16mm ) , and badly in need of replacement . |
7 | The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair . |
8 | At that time women were generally regarded as economically dependent on their husbands and less in need of an independent source of income in retirement . |
9 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
10 | Conspiracy was an old common law offence , frequently charged and much in need of bringing up to date . |
11 | He is very poor , badly deformed and desperately in need of help . |
12 | This was so in Bedfordshire , for example : in 1952 the District Council carried a motion deploring ‘ the withdrawal of the services of a full-time officer of the WEA from Bedfordshire when so large a proportion of branches in the area are so recently formed and still in need of assistance and encouragement that only a full-time organiser or tutor-organiser can give ’ . |
13 | ‘ Architects are more and more in need of reassurance where product liability is concerned , and a new BS 402 is a major step forward in this respect , ’ he says . |
14 | Surere looked at him searchingly before , satisfied that he could place his trust here , and also in need of an audience , he began : |
15 | I was also admitting that ‘ I ’ was not a separate entity from my body , that we were both one , and both in need of nutrition . |
16 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
17 | We had a flood of cases : buildings of all types and sizes , of all styles and ages , but with one thing in common — they were disused and decaying and evidently in need of a new owner or a new use , as their present owners were being decidedly neglectful . |
18 | Bare , and sadly in need of redecoration , it was not very welcoming . |
19 | A bargain makes me feel threatened and seriously in need of urgent hospital treatment : depressed and unsure of myself . |
20 | And there she was , a bit dented and definitely in need of a coat of paint , a Peterhead prawn fishing boat , nudging her way into the topmost lock . |
21 | My relationship with my father had not changed , although I should have welcomed some change , since the days of my early childhood : it is difficult for most parents to admit that their children are growing up and therefore in need of a more flexible parental attitude . |
22 | Tumin also questions the view that the training required for important positions should be regarded as a sacrifice and therefore in need of compensation . |
23 | But there are many in hospital who are not on the list but urgently in need of proper treatment . |