Example sentences of "[art] need [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories .
2 Mixed with the need to tidy up the garden was a desire to show her neighbours her new purple , slim pants and striped purple and yellow jacket .
3 There is no need to call up the tort where the legal wrong procured is itself a tort against the plaintiff , for the procurer is then himself liable as a joint tortfeasor ; nor , it seems , is there a tort of inducing a breach of trust , because a person who procures such an act becomes himself , by the doctrines of equity , liable as a trustee .
4 But evidence from a trial in Essex this season suggests there is no need to give up the struggle .
5 Now that there was no need to keep up the charade of being in love he 'd taken his things along to his old room in another wing .
6 ‘ Ralf meant no harm , and , in any case , there is no need to keep up the pretence that we 're married . ’
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