Example sentences of "this need for " in BNC.

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1 ( When she was told , she was surprisingly sympathetic , and tolerant of this need for independence .
2 This need for self-esteem can be carefully nurtured so that the horse will want to perform to boost its own ego even further .
3 In the pre-reform NHS this need for an authoritative source of local decision making was not totally met for two reasons ; the composition of authorities and the inability of the centre to decentralise authority .
4 And it was this need for a ‘ third market ’ that Luxemburg regarded as the driving force behind imperialism .
5 This need for evidence arises because the world is inherently uncertain .
6 Why do these men have this need for control ?
7 The attractions of Dworkin 's thesis can possibly be explained by this need for a new unitary formulation of legal theory — the irony , of course , is that Dworkin shares with other approaches this simplified view of today 's society .
8 The problems of learning an additional system for parents are put to one side in stressing this need for early interaction .
9 One factor which has given renewed emphasis to this need for cooperation is the increased use of simulation ( p. 128 ) .
10 Elf rituals of Khaine worship stress this need for control .
11 It is this need for interoperability , which applies equally to printers as personal computers , that Hewlett-Packard is at pains to reflect — though without compromising printer performance .
12 In an attempt to respond to this need for training , WACC 's Pacific Regional Association has organised and funded four desktop publishing workshops since 1987 specifically to upgrade the skills of Christian communicators in the Pacific islands and help them to use the new technology to maximum effect .
13 This need for cooperation is especially pressing during a period of economic recession , since nations are then more concerned with gaining a competitive advantage over their rivals so that domestic employment levels can be maintained .
14 Minton 's notes on painting underline this need for persistent enquiry .
15 This need for criteria was recognised at the Cambridge seminar in 1977 and three papers specified criteria that schemes would need to satisfy .
16 This conclusion was hotly disputed by the POA , although there can be little doubt that the running of the prison system had come to depend unhealthily on overtime ( for which the prison officers were of course paid extra at higher rates ) and that at least some of this need for overtime was generated by unnecessary restrictive practices .
17 Many further examples of this need for greater specificity could be given .
18 I could just imagine my father jumping up and down on this argument , this need for meaning , for faith .
19 ( And does this prove him saner , or madder , this need for a face , however dead ? )
20 This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit .
21 This need for verbal intelligibility was recognized not only by the Reformers in the Lutheran hymns and Calvinist psalm-settings but by the semi-Reformers ( Cranmer 's view that the musical setting of his translation of the liturgy in 1544 should ‘ not be full of notes , but , as near as may be , for every syllable a note , so that it may be sung distinctly and devoutly ’ ) and the Counter-Reformers ( the direction of the Council of Trent in 1562 that the words of the Mass ‘ should be uttered clearly and perfectly , and sink quietly into the ears and hearts of the hearers ’ , not with music ‘ contrived for the empty delight of the ears ’ ) .
22 This need for the father probably goes back to an earlier stage of childhood than the phallic-Oedipal one to which we have so far confined our attention .
23 This need for fairness has overshadowed the search for a simpler pricing system .
24 This need for ‘ distance ’ from political control has given rise to the doctrine of the ‘ arm's-length ’ relationship in countries such as Britain where the classic form of the state enterprise has been the ‘ public corporation ’ under the control of a ‘ sponsor ’ department .
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