Example sentences of "but [pron] need [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll show you , ’ Jed said , ‘ but I need absolute silence . |
| 2 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 3 | This course equips you to skipper by day with some confidence , but you need previous experience ; you should have sailed 5 days on a yacht , with 4 hours night sailing and 100 miles logged . |
| 4 | Rachel 's heart thudded but she needed irrefutable proof . |
| 5 | ‘ Individual homes tend to be designed around the needs of a particular occupier , but we need iconoclastic houses to develop ideas . |
| 6 | So not only must we establish that we have mutual life goals , but we need reasonable assurance that each partner has adequate commitment to those goals to persevere . |
| 7 | But we need other information to ‘ complete the picture ’ . |
| 8 | But we need medical supplies , especially the new medicines which the war has developed — penicillin , mepacrine , M & B , which have proved so effective in the liberation campaign . |
| 9 | People offered us support , financial and whatnot , but we needed physical support , we 're a very small community and in a way we were left on our own . |
| 10 | But they need specific help from us all here in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | They hope it 's there , they believe it may be there , they see a faltering sign here and there , but they need other encouragement . |
| 12 | But they need strong evidence to secure a conviction . |
| 13 | Artefacts help to bring vividness to understanding but they need considerable explanation to make them really meaningful . |
| 14 | But they need constant supplies of food and even temperatures . |
| 15 | He was desperately trying to kick the habit on his own , but he needed moral support and someone to keep an eye on him . |
| 16 | But he needs constant reassurance . |
| 17 | Not because of anything to do with the school but he needs special help — I think we should think about your feelings . |
| 18 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 19 | Community is part of the job but it needs good management ( paying teachers , costing the use of premises , the division of time other than that which is needed to provide the national curriculum ) as well as a personally felt sense of value . |
| 20 | But it needs complementary mechanisms for counselling , transmission of experience , management expertise , financial support , upskilling programmes . |
| 21 | But it needs constant care and attention , and spills show up on it very easily . |
| 22 | But it needed new blood . |