Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [prep] need " in BNC.

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1 A bargain makes me feel threatened and seriously in need of urgent hospital treatment : depressed and unsure of myself .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 He is very poor , badly deformed and desperately in need of help .
5 The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair .
6 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 .
7 Or are they biased , faulty and badly in need of revision ?
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