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

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1 Both Le Bon , and Freud following him , seem to be implicitly aware of the need to see that the followers give prestige to the leader and to ideas ; that a relationship is involved .
2 Over time , the dominant influence on the nominal size of the government bond market will be the public authorities ' need to borrow and the means by which this need is met .
3 Second , the need to establish that the items were concealed with ‘ animus revertendi ’ ( ie ; with the intention of retrieving the objects ) , which is essential to a verdict of Treasure Trove , would be abolished .
4 Chairman , I must confess to being erm , to being somewhat pessimistic about this whole er this this whole problem of of the need to refurbish and the need to tackle numbers in our elderly persons homes .
5 The examples of strong pro-Hitler feeling can not , therefore , simply be ascribed to the need to conform and the censorship control .
6 In this case , at least , there was no need to assume that the transfer obtained depended on changes in the distinctiveness of the cues .
7 Perhaps the clearest demonstration of the need to conceal and the compulsion to reveal , the need to bring the always-denied and never-happening into the light of day , was seen in North 's attitude towards the diversion of funds .
8 It was , however , felt that there was a need to stress that the college representative was a full participating member of the panel .
9 She says the reason for this is ‘ the need to believe that the event recounted actually took place , or is taking place : no one believes a prophet , and even a prediction needs to be realised within the narrative for sense and interest ’ ( 329 ) .
10 Such a formulation would require those asking the questions to confront the real problems : the need to understand that the aspiration to the exercise of democratic right and the discharge of democratic responsibility must arise from those who would exercise the right and discharge the responsibility and is not to be thrust upon those who do not want it or induced in those who are indifferent to it ; the need for a form of organisation such that the interests of ownership and labour would be congruent ; and the need to recognise that since accountability , above all , is the test of authentic democracy , then by that same test there will be some circumstances in which the general case for industrial democracy is over-ridden .
11 On occasion , the need to separate and the guilt about it may be the focus of work ; more often , it will be to validate and confirm the spouse or partner in the activities which they are performing .
12 The example auditors ' reports given in the exposure draft are unlikely to help narrow the expectations gap because they do not include references to the inherent limitations of financial reporting and , in particular , to the need to recognise that the balance sheet is not intended to be a statement of a company 's net worth and that there can not be a guarantee that the company will survive as a going concern .
13 The need to determine whether the patient has suffered brain-stem death arises only if the patient is on a ventilator .
14 Moreover , the provinces believe there is no need to determine if the management of the blood-supply system was negligent in the pace at which it implemented heat treatment and blood screening measures .
15 Agriculture was undergoing considerable change and she saw as one of her main tasks the need to ensure that the UK farming industry benefits in full from CAP .
16 Agriculture was undergoing considerable change and she saw as one of her main tasks the need to ensure that the UK farming industry benefits in full from CAP .
17 The need to ensure that the expert has the power to award interest will arise in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) Does the issue referred to the expert include a claim for damages arising from some breach of contract that has already occurred ? ( 2 ) Is the issue the expert is called on to determine essentially what amount of money one side owes the other , and when that sum is payable ? ( 3 ) Is there likely to be a delay in obtaining the expert 's decision on the amount payable ?
18 The reference to specific information only , can be best explained by the need to ensure that the definition of inside information is not so wide as to include legitimate research undertaken by investment analysts .
19 In general the more complex the legal structure chosen the more important will be the need to ensure that the design and operation of the financial management systems are sound .
20 Judicial review of the exercise of discretionary powers by administrative bodies has been self-consciously based on the need to ensure that the intention of the legislature is implemented and that discretionary power is subjected to some sort of control in the name of the Rule of Law .
21 Within English itself there was already some awareness of the need to ensure that the discipline could touch the student of science : " The student of the physical and social sciences is not a disembodied intelligence , and he too can gain much from that purifying of the emotions which is still one of the most valuable gifts of the literary artist to posterity .
22 A difference in the difficulty of the pre-training tasks might be enough in itself to generate a difference between the groups in the ease with which the test problem is learned , and there would then be no need to suppose that the learning of specific distinctive labels is the critical factor .
23 But there is no need to suppose that the ways of the Minoan traders were simple , straightforward , or even efficient .
24 The starting point for this was the need to decide whether the government did have a credible economic development strategy , whether there was any community focus to it , and how its various programmes impacted on communities within West Belfast .
25 There is a clear need to investigate whether the assumptions upon which econometric models are based are consistent with empirical data .
26 Stopping distance — that is , the time it takes for the brain to register the need to stop and the time it takes for the brake to take effect — is at 70 miles an hour a frightening 315 feet .
27 The family need to feel that the reasons they can no longer support the relative in the community are recognised as valid .
28 A judicial separation may be obtained upon proof of any one of the five bases for divorce mentioned above , save that there is no need to prove that the marriage has broken down irretrievably .
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