Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] do [adv] need " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tanya Frost , of Lily 's Beauty Parlour , decided Norma 's fine , clear skin did not need a heavy foundation . |
| 2 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 3 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
| 4 | Of 60 fund managers asked last year , 55 did not regard IR officers as their primary company contacts ; 33 thought that British industry did not need any more IR consultants . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman does not need to rely on my words to rebut every word that he has just said ; he need only read the latest edition of the in-house magazine of the Confederation of Health Service Employees , where it is written : ’ The Mid-Glamorgan District Linen Service is efficient because it has no choice . |
| 6 | — The right hon. Gentleman does not need a fig leaf to protect himself against my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover , he needs a suit of armour . |
| 7 | A number of the paper products in daily use do not need to be made from virgin paper . |
| 8 | Thus the argument is that the victim 's right to autonomy and freedom of sexual choice does not need to yield to the principle that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; it would be so simple ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the man and woman ) for the man to ascertain the facts here . |
| 9 | The Colonel explained that he was still waiting for orders , and the General swore like the trooper he had once been and said that a French officer did not need orders when the enemy was in plain sight . |
| 10 | The immediate post-war years had been the last classic period of the film as social sermon and one can almost sense the relief as the studios discovered that social context did not need quite as much emphasis . |
| 11 | As a result , a consignee of an English waybill does not need to present present the waybill to obtain the goods ; all the consignee needs to do in order to obtain the goods is to identify himself . |
| 12 | Clamping down on the professional foul does not need a change of law , simply a change of emphasis by referees . |
| 13 | Supporting cast DJ Renegade and secondary shouter Blue Eyes provide hardy back-up ; previous single ‘ Mind Of An Ordinary Citizen ’ , the breakneck ‘ Forward ’ and a dangerous tear through manifesto track ‘ Survival Of The Hardest Working ’ to close , are the muscular set 's highlights , and the moment where Blade gets our own Chris Hughes onstage to photograph him with his fans is cute — QED , this jolly , gentle , reassuringly chubby little geezer does not need to pander to the male hormones and the baser instincts of his audience to get noticed . |
| 14 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 15 | Now , as I said in one of the quotes that we were talking about , a psychological explanation does not need to rest on physiological causes . |
| 16 | Anyone born with English as his or her native language does not need other languages ... ’ |
| 17 | I 'm sure Edouard does n't need another mechanic … |
| 18 | Students in initial training do therefore need to be given the opportunity to examine and analyse written school language policies in practice during their periods of school experience . |
| 19 | ‘ The eastern European farmer does not need lectures on how to farm , but our mechanisation and technology is of great importance to him , ’ claims Mr Colman . |
| 20 | The interesting part is that the measuring fibre does not need to be part of the current carrying circuit , giving a high degree of electrical isolation . |
| 21 | A man who touches a hot stove does not need to believe in pain . |
| 22 | Enjoyment of heterosexual activity does not need to diminish with age ; and , in fact , many women gain greater satisfaction from sex in their later years than formerly , when they were subject to the pressures and distractions of raising a family , or fear of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 23 | It is particularly useful when the storage disks become full , or if a certain package does not need to be stored online . |
| 24 | It is particularly useful when the storage disks become full , or if a certain package does not need to be stored online . |
| 25 | The crucial difference between special interest , or special damage , and genuine grievance was that a special interest was one greater than that of other affected people generally , whereas a genuine grievance did not need to be any different in type or intensity than that of other affected persons . |
| 26 | When ninety-five per cent of the population of the Republic professes to being Roman Catholic , the Catholic Church does not need a constitutional commitment to dominate moral and social legislation . |
| 27 | It is nature 's version of inductive reasoning : animals learn only cues which tend to predict the imminent arrival of something desirable , like food , and the reliability of the new cue does not need to be by any means perfect . |
| 28 | The new patient did n't need anything , so she went in to see Donna . |
| 29 | This exercise , organized and stage-managed by the Party , was presented by the official press and propaganda machine as a spontaneous demonstration of popular backing for Franco and , by extension , as " proof " that the Spanish regime did not need validation from outside . |
| 30 | But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) . |