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

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1 If you have a high need to maintain the relationship and a low need to get what you want , you may decide the most appropriate strategy is smoothing , i.e. you agree with what is being said so as not to cause trouble .
2 This appears to be a demonstration of the clear need to bring the APB and ASB under the auspices of the Financial Reporting Council , which could then coordinate both committees ' work programmes .
3 The judge was therefore at fault in considering that there was no need for him to pay explicit regard to the public interest in freedom of expression guaranteed by article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( 1953 ) ( Cmd. 8969 ) in seeking to resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity in the common law ; ( 7 ) in failing , as did Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case , to have proper regard to the public interest in freedom of expression and to the question of whether in a democratic society there really was a pressing social need to extend the ambit of the law of defamation to enable a governmental body to sue in respect of presumed ( and not actual ) injury to its governmental reputation ; ( 8 ) in failing to take into account the acceptance by the English courts of the fact that where a governmental plaintiff sought to invoke a private law right to interfere with freedom of discussion about the workings of government , the court 's approach would ( because of the competing public interests involved ) differ from that in a private dispute between citizen and citizen .
4 Was there a real need to create the Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members ?
5 Union members were exposed to both the rhetoric about union solidarity and the real need to support the class interest of their fellow workers .
6 I feel no real need to fill the world with more Diamonds .
7 In practice there were innovations , partially because of the perceived need to reduce the influence of headmen , and partially because British officials naturally governed on the basis of their own training and inclinations .
8 The burden of reform must be borne fairly throughout the Community , both between and within member states , regardless of size and location , bearing in mind the paramount need to ensure the survival of the most efficient producers .
9 But this particular species has an additional need to control the temperature within its habitations .
10 There is a basic conflict between the need for technical scrutiny of legislation and the political need to oppose the legislation , to make it unworkable rather than improve it .
11 The objective of the research is an analysis of the tensions which arise between the duty of the Council to protect the public and its simultaneous need to maintain the unity and confidence of the profession .
12 In particular , software and support should take account of the possible need to emend the data after it has been released .
13 But he admitted : ‘ We have never ruled out a possible need to enforce the zone . ’
14 Consider migrations , pregnancies , seasons , brief harvests and the constant need to anticipate the movements of prey or predators .
15 There is an urgent need to improve the training of our young people to make them among the best trained in Europe , in the skills needed for industry , for the present and for the future .
16 There is an urgent need to progress the implementation of the Council Tax structure and to make appointments to Council Tax posts in order to meet the short timescale for the implementation of Council Tax from 1 April 1993 .
17 Trustees of Ferranti family shareholdings in the company wrote back saying there was an urgent need to reinforce the board so that proposals and the inevitable approaches that the company would receive could be reviewed by a strengthened board .
18 A current Commission-approved discussion paper that the Secretary of State must know about on state aid for the coal industry states that there is an urgent need to define the reference price for European coal .
19 Does the Minister agree about the urgent need to exploit the resources of the Irish sea , in the hope that there will soon be a Government who will not dissipate the revenues from such exploration , as happened so tragically in regard to the North sea ?
20 She says there is an urgent need to monitor the process which leads to the decision to videotape .
21 But with the more urgent need to get the property market moving , the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that with immediate effect , the threshold for stamp duty on houses is to be doubled from £30,000 to £60,000 — which will save home buyers up to £600 .
22 New party groupings and alliances are being formed and new policies hammered out , influenced by internal pressures for social change and redistribution , by the impact of inflation and unemployment , and the urgent need to meet the demands of external agents , most notably the IMF and the international banking community .
23 The thousands of visitors to the excavations have shown there is an urgent need to make the site into an archaeological park .
24 The appointment of Kang , 67 , a Moscow-trained economic technocrat who had served as Premier from 1984 to 1986 , was widely interpreted as indicative of Kim Il Sung 's recognition of the urgent need to reform the country 's highly centralized and largely moribund economy .
25 An official statement said that the postponement had been agreed " in the light of the current situation in Lebanon and the urgent need to revive the efforts of the Arab League 's tripartite committee " [ for October 1989 Lebanon peace accord agreed in Taif , Saudi Arabia , see p. 36986 ] .
26 Without prejudice to our views in paragraph 27 above , we favour a reduction in landbanks from 10 years to 5 on the basis that it would signal the urgent need to reduce the rate of supply and consumption of minerals , and conserve existing reserves .
27 Without prejudice to our views in paragraph 27 above , we favour a reduction in landbanks from 10 years to 5 on the basis that it would signal the urgent need to reduce the rate of supply and consumption of minerals , and conserve existing reserves .
28 She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb .
29 We need to press the case for the Social Chapter , but above all else , we the Left need to take the initiative in pursuing a strategy for employment and growth in Europe .
30 Donal Hickey at the University of Ottawa suggested a decade ago that sex — by which he meant the entirely puzzling need to mix the genes of different individuals while reproducing — first happened because certain genes selfishly forced their possessors to do it .
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