Example sentences of "need [to-vb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the anti-army writers also showed a need to appeal to the sensibilities of their Tory allies in Parliament . |
| 2 | Throughout the network there would be a need to attend to the litter problem , perhaps through the provision of more bins and heavy fines for littering . |
| 3 | Laura passed on her belief in the need to minister to the man you love to Nick 's girlfriend , Ari . |
| 4 | Although the sterling crisis which followed the budget of 11 November 1964 alerted more ministers to the economic realities , Labour 's tiny majority and the need to go to the country again as soon as possible meant that all too often electoral considerations were given priority ( as they had been by the Tories earlier in 1964 ) over economic policy . |
| 5 | But er I think from a comfort point of view er if you do feel the need to go to the toilet , please do n't er think that you 've got to put your hand up and ask . |
| 6 | And what about the second toolbar which floats about the screen , cluttering things up without actually removing the need to go to the command menu for many functions ? |
| 7 | In both these cases the old plates made the necessary points , and there was no need to go to the trouble and expense of getting new ones . |
| 8 | That filmmakers did n't feel hamstrung by the need to defer to the MOI reflects their own desire to ‘ do their bit ’ . |
| 9 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 10 | He expressed a need to talk to the pupils : |
| 11 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 12 | The channel thus had financial security without either public subsidy or the need to bow to the ratings . |
| 13 | Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone . |
| 14 | This will have a list of common matters such as the need to account to the client for any outstanding monies , and arrangements for storage and retrieval of papers . |
| 15 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |
| 16 | In other words , the ideology of limited intervention which the current Conservative administration espouses sits uneasily with its need to respond to the demands of industrial and property production and to those for environmental conservation and local control over land policy . |
| 17 | This means the need to refer to the text and instructor boxes will diminish over time . |
| 18 | For instance , flying level on a heading , if you are checking height there is no need to refer to the airspeed . |
| 19 | Field changes become increasingly difficult once Stage II is entered , but they are permitted in exceptional circumstances , for example , when the first school experience convinces an applied education student of the need to change to the education field . |
| 20 | But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country 's foreign policy . |