Example sentences of "do not need [det] " in BNC.

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1 The answer was to build cars which did not need such lubrication and to stop adding lead to petrol .
2 Erika did not need that last qualification .
3 Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike .
4 The State authorities did not need much convincing ; with the world believing that Shangri-La was at hand courtesy of Utah , State politicians seized on this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to revitalise Utah 's economy .
5 She really did not need this .
6 SPHINX did not need more information than that provided over word pairs to distinguish the correct hypothesis .
7 She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned .
8 Of 60 fund managers asked last year , 55 did not regard IR officers as their primary company contacts ; 33 thought that British industry did not need any more IR consultants .
9 He certainly did not need any encouragement . ’
10 I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush .
11 Others indicated that they did not need any more qualifications for progress at work .
12 All I know is that the Labour Government , who were in favour of the European Community , did not need any convincing that they were not in favour of a federalist united states of Europe .
13 He did not need any encouragement at all , as she had discovered when she had lunched with him on Tuesday .
14 You do not need all this to establish that a man is drunk or that there is mayhem when he is in charge of a class .
15 Of course you could say that we do not need all the animals anyway , but at the moment we have got them , so there is a conflict here .
16 If we do not need all that DP equipment now we may need it in the future .
17 But the rays do not need that .
18 We do not need that particular addition to the family . ’
19 ‘ We do not need that kind of publicity and do not want to be involved in that sort of thing .
20 We do not need such unthinkable experiments because we are surrounded by thousands of only slightly less dramatic examples of the lack of a fixed relationship between tissue damage and pain .
21 While there is no doubt that carp can digest and like ingredients such as casein and fishmeal , they do not need such high quality ingredients in their food .
22 ‘ You need money in this England , ’ as Priestley said , ‘ but you do not need much money . ’
23 Cultivated blackberries are not far removed from their wild parents and do not need much fussy soil preparation .
24 However , since the wave is providing all the power for the turn you do not need much power from the rig .
25 Empirical examples of peaceful societies , which do not need some release mechanism for assumed aggressive drives , should at least alert us to the possibly false linking of human aggression and human nature .
26 But we do not need these sophisticated techniques to improve group effectiveness .
27 I appeal to the Government to think again , this is going down the wrong road , we do not need these appointed , these appointees appointed by the Home Office and they know how it 's done , they know this new method , but there is the list of the greater the good , and if there 's of course there will be a bias one way or the other arising out of the very method by which it is done .
28 You have probably already … . ’ — she looked viciously at her son , for a moment , making him flinch from her temper-'Women do not need more men than they have to put up with . ’
29 ‘ We do not need any lessons in human rights and socialist democracy , ’ said the Prime Minister , Willi Stoph , in Berlin .
30 In the process his demand that there be no further large scale immigration infuriated the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , who retorted : ‘ I do not need any education on the importance of strict immigration control for entry into this country . ’
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