Example sentences of "[noun pl] required a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speakers required a certain formality and elaboration , even explicitness , if the audience were to seize a point . |
| 2 | Such romantic libretti required a choreographer to have a greater understanding of the significance of each movement , particularly if the protagonists came from different classes or environments as in La Sylphide ( a farmer and a fairy ) or Giselle ( a count and a peasant ) . |
| 3 | The relative complexity of the Visual Effects required a far greater use of filmed inserts . |
| 4 | Many plots required a two-fold saltation load to be considered . |
| 5 | Fiedler found that extremely favourable or unfavourable conditions required a task-oriented or autocratic style of leadership . |
| 6 | Naval officers required a patron at three times in their career , and it was useful to have powerful friends at all times in order to secure seagoing appointments . |
| 7 | Stolen goods required a rapid disposal . |
| 8 | The ancient superstition is that the water gods required a sacrifice to keep them content , and the church later named wells after saints and called them holy wells . |
| 9 | Constitutional changes required a two-thirds majority of the total Latvian Supreme Soviet membership , i.e. 135 out of 201 votes . |
| 10 | 5.1 The changes to the Assessment Procedures required a review of the Learning Outcomes and a reduction of the overlap between the modules . |
| 11 | The problems were not confined to standard paper-based files ; the work of the departments required a variety of file forms , such as large plans , maps and drawings , and computer storage media . |
| 12 | To make matters worse many dietary instructional leaflets required a reading age not attained by the target population . |
| 13 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 14 | He spoke vigorously in support of the protector 's Baltic policy , arguing that England 's commercial interests required a strong anti-Dutch and so pro-Swedish stance , even at the risk of war . |
| 15 | He gave four reasons for deciding in favour of a binary system : the demand for vocational , professional and industrial based courses required a separate sector with a separate tradition and outlook ; a ladder system with the universities at the head would inevitably depress and degrade morale and standards in the non-university sector ; there was a need for a substantial part of the higher education system to be under social control and directly responsible to social needs ; and , lastly , no other country in the western world downgraded its non-university professional and technical sector . |
| 16 | A second group of alternative approaches was inspired in areas where Quaternary deposits and landscapes required a very different approach and this may be envisaged as of four basic kinds associated with sea levels , glacial sequences , periglacial landscapes and arid landscapes . |
| 17 | Rowntree had estimated in 1900 that a family of two adults and three children required a minimum income of 20s. 6d. per week . |
| 18 | Modification of such systems required a great deal of effort . |
| 19 | However , differential waveforms over the two hemispheres were recorded by Wood , Goff and Day ( 1971 ) only when their syllables required a linguistic analysis . |
| 20 | There were nearly three million non-standard consumers ( nearly a third of the total ) on nationalisation , and this number increased as resources were simply not available to convert local networks when new houses required a supply . |
| 21 | Opposition parties , including the liberal Kuwait Democratic Forum , gave a cautious welcome to the government 's proposed schedule for elections , but argued that the endorsement of urgent reconstruction plans required a parliament to be in place sooner rather than later . |
| 22 | The ECSC rules required a qualified majority in the Council for such a declaration , something which proved to be impossible . |
| 23 | stated that Institute Rules required a minimum of ten members to combine to write to National Council via National Office requesting the authority to form a North American Division . |