Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] need [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 2 | From women 's point of view , changes in the occupational structure which gave young women in the twentieth century more opportunity for a career also reduced the need to marry out of pure economic necessity , which in turn increased the importance of companionship within marriage . |
| 3 | There were demands for higher wages , for social reform and for wider access to higher education , yet in 1966 the government felt the need to cut back on spending programmes as the economy moved into a minor recession . |
| 4 | She constantly felt the need to get out of the house and go somewhere , anywhere … but always she would return to be punished , because there was nowhere . |
| 5 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 6 | He felt a need to get out of London , Eric Verrico was keen to see Paris and the £40 Minton brought with him fuelled the ‘ larks ’ all four now had . |
| 7 | Sometimes she thought that she and William both had a need to make up for those lost ten years . |