Example sentences of "[conj] [art] need [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The channel thus had financial security without either public subsidy or the need to bow to the ratings . |
| 2 | Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone . |
| 3 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 4 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 5 | The party structure was probably saved by two features , the recruiting of 1915–16 and the need to cope with the Representation of the People Act in 1918 . |
| 6 | His sense of the long , mixed past of his own family , and the need to rebel against the purpose — if not the pattern — of his upbringing , left him neither passionately involved in everyday things , nor yet coldly indifferent to the other people . |
| 7 | The British tendency to choose to limit the size of families over the past 20 years , and the need to move around the country in search of better job prospects , has done little to increase the sense of community and neighbourliness which once absorbed so much of the responsibility for mutual support and so-called ‘ informal ’ care in the post-war years . |
| 8 | The model described above provides a simple illustration of the effect of input-output relations and the need to allow for the indirect effects . |
| 9 | Although the sterling crisis which followed the budget of 11 November 1964 alerted more ministers to the economic realities , Labour 's tiny majority and the need to go to the country again as soon as possible meant that all too often electoral considerations were given priority ( as they had been by the Tories earlier in 1964 ) over economic policy . |
| 10 | The opposition also emphasized that the referendum failed to address the issue of the 10,000 US troops stationed in the Panama canal zone and the need to provide for the future security of the canal when it came under complete Panamanian control at the turn of the century . |
| 11 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |