Example sentences of "[adv] need for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Hornblower 's cough is designed to give him time to avoid embarrassment or to get out of a tight corner , Septimus puts on his spectacles , which in fact he only needs for reading , when he needs time to think of a way out of a difficulty or the chance to seem more confident than he really is . |
| 2 | Aid was especially needed for stabilization funds to bolster the convertibility of the three planned currencies . |
| 3 | Using a bar code reader and a suitable computer system greatly speeds things up of course , and the books of codes are presumably only needed for reference and checking purposes . |
| 4 | One way of distinguishing between them is to define needs as basic physical and psychological drives arising from being human ( eg need for food , clothing , self-esteem etc ) , and to define wants as specific desires directed towards fulfilling the basic needs . |
| 5 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 6 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 7 | John Deane : Knew how much overtime needed for resignalling programme , but failed to ask for it to be extended . |
| 8 | The old school , built when state education first came to Roos , has been tastefully renovated as a private house , as have other local buildings , some no longer needed for farming . |
| 9 | The grynd continues , but these days the whale meat is no longer needed for food , and islanders are often having to empty last year 's whale meat from the freezer to make way for the fresh catch . |
| 10 | There was of course no longer need for missio , a remedy which had been designed for equitable reasons to allow a trust beneficiary to triumph over the constraints imposed by the limitation of trust protection to remedies in personam . |
| 11 | Equipment is urgently needed for trainee teachers hoping to start classes shortly . |
| 12 | GL advised that Braille font now needed for Gravograph . |
| 13 | What you really need for reading is a design with a localised beam that can be directed precisely . |
| 14 | It could not be taken along with poor relief , and those with criminal records were excluded ; it was only available at seventy , not sixty ; and it was set at a very mean level , a mere five shillings , below the bare minimum which Seebohm Rowntree calculated was then needed for subsistence . |
| 15 | At the Organising Committee , the retiring CEB chairman had confidently suggested that the old CEB organisation could continue to handle matters in this field and there would be little need for change : ‘ The CEB in conjunction with a strong committee on which the Ministry of Supply were represented were working hard on the generating plant extensions and it would not be necessary for the Organising Committee to worry over-much about the details of this programme in the meantime . ’ |
| 16 | If everyone in , say , librarianship , was agreed on the best way to organize library services there would be little need for research , for conferences or for journals and books on librarianship . |
| 17 | This is seldom needed for analysis purposes but random access mode is often used where the records are held over a long period and have to be updated with the passage of time . |