Example sentences of "[adj] need [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , this need to turn contemporary life into drama had been the defining characteristic of his work since " Portrait of a Lady " . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 3 | All the same , in order to look good as well as feel good , men and women over forty need to take extra care to overcome the outward effects of wear and tear on most parts of the body . |
| 4 | Lévi-Strauss on primitive need to cover whole surface , he wrote . |
| 5 | ‘ The north of the city has areas of chronic unemployment , civil unan urgent need to encourage new business start-ups by providing support and reducing restrictions . ’ |
| 6 | Neither did the Soviet leaders appear to feel any great need to rectify this situation . |
| 7 | Mersey Regional Ambulance spokesman Richard Oswick said : ‘ Everyone has to be aware that the dark nights are drawing in and we all need to take special care . ’ |
| 8 | This planting plan is suitable for either sloping or level ground , but these plants all need to have free-draining soil . |
| 9 | Here we are on ground more familiar to the pre-reading child , and there is less need to analyse straightforward examples . |
| 10 | Grimsby are good , but United need to win these matches . |
| 11 | Later , when freedmen had been assimilated into Roman society , there was no longer any need to proclaim Roman identity in this way . |
| 12 | In early December 1989 Malan had stated that the SADF would stop making cross-border raids and that there was no longer any need to support anti-government groups in other countries . |
| 13 | In America where the loose , cotton , mid-thigh-length male undergarment has consistently maintained its market share , there has never been any need to call these things anything but shorts . |
| 14 | I ca n't see that there 's any need to waste more time . ’ |
| 15 | Apart from any need to counter persistent infringement of the rules of dress and display , the number of enactments is indicative of considerable uncertainty , for not only did the legislature feel impelled to extend the terminology of rank with monetary equivalents , these latter were made the subject of continual amendment within the broad permanent framework . |
| 16 | This is a very efficient way of handling additions , because all the available space can be used before there is any need to provide extra overflow space . |
| 17 | We do not see any need to restructure these services at the moment , but we do see a need for closer collaboration between the external and internal services . |
| 18 | Since there was no longer any need to make diplomatic gestures in the direction of right-wing totalitarianism , Lequerica was replaced at the Foreign Ministry by Alberto Martín Artajo y Alvárez , a man well known and much respected in Catholic circles at home and abroad . |