Example sentences of "[vb base] need " in BNC.
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| 1 | In whatever format you keep them , the notes you make need to be clear ; if they are not self-explanatory at the time you write them , they are unlikely to be intelligible later , when your memory of working on the particular book or topic has faded . |
| 2 | He said it was a case where Say needed help rather than punishment . |
| 3 | This particularly assists those elderly clients who may be resentful at times that they appear to need help . |
| 4 | Hold up this measured piece of work to the machine , neither stretching nor easing and you find you appear to need about 120 stitches . |
| 5 | Certain industries appear to need this dominance ( property , newspapers , retailing ) . |
| 6 | Here again , higher primates in captivity seem to be motivated in the right general direction , but appear to need some element of learning to be able to focus the instinctual drive towards its goal . |
| 7 | Begin by deciding how many hours sleep you expect to need throughout the week . |
| 8 | I wonder how many of you are now , or expect to need care ? |
| 9 | If you have a lot of different dates to enter , either use a keystroke macro — something that I will cover in a future Step-by-Step ( but see ‘ Further Reading ’ ) or just enter the same date , say @DATEVALUE ( ’ 1-Jan-90 ’ ) in the first cell , copy it down the column for as many rows as you expect to need and then edit it ( using F2 ) to enter the real dates . |
| 10 | He quotes about £30,000 for a small inland farmhouse or ruin needing restoration and about £25,000 for a small apartment . |
| 11 | Sensitive to the disastrous marketing implications of such a move ( imagine needing a prescription for your favourite skin cream ) manufacturers have recently been shifting their attention to the uppermost levels of the epidermis where any improvement in texture or tone , no matter how impressive , is still deemed to be ‘ cosmetic ’ . |
| 12 | The fears they embody need dealing with just as much as the wrong thinking they exhibit . |
| 13 | And I mean , there 's , you know , the people who smoke need a boost of nicotine they 'll go and get |
| 14 | Some countries conduct all foreign trade through state corporations which assess needs according to their current economic development programmes . |
| 15 | That said , we do listen to constructive criticism ( even if I do take the Michael in these letters every so often ) and make changes where they seem needed — you 'll see gradual change as time goes by , for the better , we hope ! |
| 16 | We seem to need to get a sufficient daily quota of conscious relaxation and pleasure from our food , and obviously this occurs while the food is in the mouth . |
| 17 | Similarly , some industries ( newspapers , retailing , property ) seem to need dominant authoritarian managers at the top while there are others in which the sharing of power appears essential to get the work done ( publishing , consulting and some forms of manufacturing ) . |
| 18 | Some people can get by on three or four hours a night whilst others seem to need much more . |
| 19 | It has already been suggested that whereas academic courses tend to change incrementally , perhaps under the influence of research , professional courses seem to need the new broom of a major report every so often to bring about change . |
| 20 | From 1 April the main part of that contribution will be to refer to social services those patients who seem to need social care . |
| 21 | They seem to need it . |
| 22 | Getting out and about can be hard work in the early months , when babies seem to need three times their weight in accessories . |
| 23 | Even the ties seem to need taking out . |
| 24 | They seem to need some other catalyzing substance , such as zinc . |
| 25 | The replication processes that we know seem to need complicated machinery to work . |
| 26 | You seem to need it more than I do . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Now that you have discarded your masculine disguise you seem to need a good deal of attention . ’ |
| 28 | Well we had eight different presentations , er i warmed , I suppose , to two of them erm was a small engineering company in the motor trade which , while it will never make a fortune will probably make a living and the people seem to need help . |
| 29 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | For gestural usages , we seem to need , not just a list of abstract coordinates , but a complete monitoring of the physical properties of the speech event . |