Example sentences of "need [to-vb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 2 | Dr Riddoch , of Bristol university , says : ‘ To be effective you need to concentrate on one exercise or part of the body . |
| 3 | Heavy women need to put on less weight than very thin mums-to-be . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it is essential that wherever possible , the pupils and staffs of our schools/colleges enjoy the same range of opportunity as is offered in the state sector — we need to compete on equal terms . |
| 5 | If we are to make further progress with our EC neighbours , surely we need to build on sure foundations . |
| 6 | In the final stage of the process , the children need to decide on some way of presenting their results . |
| 7 | We need to legislate on this offence because of an evidential difficulty , which is compounded in several ways . |
| 8 | Many of these sections are descriptive rather than prescriptive and contain sentences such as ‘ Most legislators are not lawyers , however , and need to rely on skilled advice ’ . |
| 9 | Less developed field dependence often goes with greater need to rely on other people for evaluation of one 's own attitudes . |