Example sentences of "[conj] we need [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Director of education Ian Reid said : ‘ We have amalgamated and closed schools and cut administration back as far as we dare although we need more staff to implement all the changes .
2 I am sure that there is common ground with my hon. Friend , because I accept that we need steadily to improve training — indeed , we have been putting more money into that .
3 But of course if we 're going to do that we need somewhere to start and where we 're going to start is that I 'm going to ask you to each to make a presentation , a very short presentation .
4 But the central point is that we need firmly to shift out of the mode of thinking that assumes that at pensionable age most people become useless burdens ; to realize that most of them have at least as much to offer as many people in their twenties , and hence actively seek ways to use their abilities positively .
5 One of the most popular slogans suggests that we need only look back to ‘ Before the War ’ in order to reach the solid ground of tradition and stability .
6 I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’
7 Well , I suggest someone nips over next door to see if we can borrow a room — that is , if it is felt that we need actually to discuss anything more . "
8 In other words , just as the poverty experienced by women has largely been obscured by household-based studies of income and expenditure , so we need also to examine the patterns of expenditure and consumption within care-giving households , in order to assess the full costs to informal carers .
9 The strength and nature of these traditions has been brilliantly analysed elsewhere and we need only remind ourselves here of their importance and their diversity .
10 The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick .
11 ‘ The market we operate in has been expanding despite the trials and tribulations of the retail recession and we need more space , ’ he said .
12 Both summarize complicated interests and classes , and we need constantly to remind ourselves that the overwhelming majority of people of different religions live together in peace .
13 But we need also to remember that there is another entitlement — the privilege of feeling at home somewhere , of understanding something in depth , of being immersed in a culture .
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