Example sentences of "we may need " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Sumption , director of a private water-development group in Alabama , says : ‘ It seems we may need Daddy to tell us where the toys are on the floor , and how to share them . ’ |
| 2 | Very often the bereaved will not come to find us , but we may need to make the approach to them . |
| 3 | Sometimes we may need to make changes which we reserve the right to do at any time . |
| 4 | We may need your young friend ( relative ? ) for the dinosaur sequence on Friday but we will need to discuss this . |
| 5 | There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information , eg when booking a holiday . |
| 6 | In middle age the lens of the eye becomes harder , and we may need glasses to focus on near objects . |
| 7 | We may need them , but we should also spare a thought for our cats when using them , or sooner or later our pet animals will suffer . |
| 8 | For instance , we may need to upgrade our car because of a lot of travelling involved in our occupation or ministry , but does that justify the de luxe model ? |
| 9 | Well , we may need some ‘ in pool ’ commentary . |
| 10 | We may need to read the poem several times to appreciate the way in which an effect of spontaneity is achieved within an extremely rigid verse form . |
| 11 | High divorce rates and a high incidence of dissatisfaction among both sexes indicate that we may need to rethink the forms of relationships , the roles we play within them , and the expectations we have of them . |
| 12 | We may need to confront this situation and realise that we can get greater support from people who have similar motivation to our own . |
| 13 | ‘ If Carnelian leaves Stalinvast , ’ Jaq said bluntly , ‘ we may need to take you a vast distance . ’ |
| 14 | We may need back-up — Dillon is n't a man I like but in a tight corner he 's formidable . ’ |
| 15 | To do this effectively we may need to construct typologies and identify patterns that improve our understanding of the problem . |
| 16 | For instance , we may need to negotiate with political agitators but offer treatment to the dangerous psychopath . |
| 17 | We may need to look , therefore , at adaptation in various ways , not only adjustment to general social norms but also to deviant and unorthodox sub-cultures as well as to self-aspirations and family wishes . |
| 18 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 19 | If you are claiming compensation for damage , please keep the damaged article and its packaging , as we may need to inspect them . |
| 20 | If you are applying for compensation for damage , please keep the damaged article , and the packaging , as we may need to see them later . |
| 21 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
| 22 | We may need some conceptualization , some image , some words , if we are to speak of God ; but scarcely a picture of the universe and a history of humankind such as we have inherited in the Christian creeds . |
| 23 | We may need to devote more attention to helping the teacher discern their effects and to relate them to the intentions . |
| 24 | We must take note of trends and changes , we must recognise pressures as pressures , we may need to broaden our concepts and tolerance in marital issues and family concerns : but at least we can be fairly sure that marriage and the family as we know them will outlast our time . |
| 25 | Attention to surveillance and the rational use of primary and secondary resources are still needed , but as we try to add ‘ quality to quantity ’ we may need to look to social science as well as to epidemiology . |
| 26 | You 'll also notice that we put a provision in there of half a million for expansion of packing cos we believe that we may need this erm with the production of the o you for the carry on . |
| 27 | What what we should be doing is make s making sure that we have er the negatives of all those drawings that we 've produced over the last ten or fifteen years , that we may need to use again . |
| 28 | Well we 're probably alright for the other things for the time being , but we may need about the the Weber erm . |
| 29 | Or we may need the good word of this sub-prior from Ramsey , no less … |
| 30 | We may need to grieve when we leave places where we have been happy and even places where we have been unhappy , like prisons or boarding schools . |