Example sentences of "a need [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone appreciates there is a need to test the children 's ability , ’ says Mr Brunt . |
| 2 | He is consumed by the challenge of the world 's highest peaks , but this has been accompanied by a geographer 's fascination with visiting new places : a curiosity about the metaphysical undercurrents that accompany great risk ; a need to plumb the capabilities of mind and body and a corresponding empathy with mountain peoples who confront such tests in their everyday struggle with life . |
| 3 | There is a need to fund the deficit in public expenditure . |
| 4 | The National Association of Head Teachers said : ’ There is undoubtedly a need to improve the regularity of formal school inspections , as well as a strong case for the provision of detailed information about schools to parents . ’ |
| 5 | Secondly , there is a need to facilitate the finance of other objectives of economic policy such as fulfilling the objectives of the SEA , and act as a handmaiden to growth both inside and outside the EC . |
| 6 | This may be done formally , when there is a need to confirm the legitimacy of an agency 's authority ; or informally , when an agency has to respond to pressures from centres of power within the community . |
| 7 | Some theorists feel that the : is too imprecise and there is a need to state the nature of a relationship , not just to signal its existence . |
| 8 | And there is the factor that there is a need to diversify the economy of York generally erm and also erm to ensure that the new settlement has an employment component . |
| 9 | Where this is the case there will be a need to remedy the deficiency as quickly as possible , and thereafter to seek to improve the individual 's eating habits by careful discussion and support . |
| 10 | is n't there a risk that if we do n't keep a reasonable balance between employment and employment demand and employment supply in North Yorkshire , we shall finish up for different reasons with a need to regenerate the economy of Yorkshire , North Yorkshire ? |
| 11 | In losing the ‘ support ’ of alcohol there may be a need to fill the gaps left in a person 's life by the process of withdrawal . |
| 12 | Thirdly , there was a need to upgrade the standard of adjudication with tribunals playing a ‘ more positive enabling role in relation to appellants ’ ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 13 | Royal Society 's study group report on risk assessment is a tough read ; For example , ‘ At the administrative level , there is a need to acknowledge the validity of public perceptions , while at the same time purveying the fullest information on objective risk estimates , not least because these data form a major component of the public 's perceptions , ’ But it concentrates the mind and , of course , it deals with every activity of man . |
| 14 | Implementing a primary health care programme in a developed country with an established tradition of health care requires a flexibility within the structures , an openness to change and a need to examine the structures within which a primary health care programme can be fully implemented . |
| 15 | We see a need to analyse the crisis in the context of the relationships between politics and economics , ideology and material conditions . |
| 16 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |
| 17 | To answer this question you will a need to give the Minitab command TABLE a third argument . |
| 18 | Yet there is much that these two great historians have in common , and not only their sense of foreboding , their anxiety about the future , and a vision of past greatness ; they share , above all , a need to give the Christianity of their compatriots , Franks or English , roots in the Roman past . |
| 19 | Ian Wood , the head of Scotland 's largest indigenous offshore service company and chairman of Grampian Enterprise , said he was surprised that the Government appeared to have taken ‘ unhelpful ’ steps hitting exploration activity and the development of smaller projects when there was a need to give the industry reassurance of support . |
| 20 | There was now , however , a need to streamline the procedure : |
| 21 | There is now a need to rekindle the idea that teaching is a vocation which makes a whole series of complex demands . |
| 22 | ( It ) emphasises the interaction between the economy and the environment and , if sustainable principles are to be embraced , then there is a need to shift the balance of considerations much more in favour of the environment than hitherto . |
| 23 | There is a need to continue the restoration of self-confidence in the teaching profession and to raise morale . |
| 24 | Where the court makes a residence order in care proceedings a family assistance order will not be appropriate if there is a need to protect the child and provide local authority services . |
| 25 | Such a mechanism is particularly useful if there is a need to alter the kinds of proteins present to meet changing circumstances . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a need to disaggregate the concept into more manageable parts but within an overall strategy which is concerned with the impact of human activity within the eco-system . |
| 27 | The consultation exercise proposed for Greatham is in order to appraise the public of the current situation , and to check whether there is a need to change the proposals . |
| 28 | The type of analyses that in one company may be conducted with a view to maintaining strategic control and identifying the early signals of a need to change the product mix may in other companies be conducted largely at the pre-investment stage . |
| 29 | There is a need to develop the differences further , rather than just saying that contradictory emotions can exist in the unconscious . |
| 30 | While supporting the practitioners ' role as proxy for the patient in purchasing , there is a need to recognise the limitations of this , and wherever possible we should be seeking the opinion of the public . |