Example sentences of "[not/n't] need [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she remembered that it was only a selection of the poems he had been reading and she did not need to speculate further , for — much to her surprise — he began to read |
| 2 | Given the forecast , onset of winter and the state of the weather which washed out more than half yesterday 's play , he may not need to stir himself further in this game . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not need to explain to you that this is often how artists work . |
| 4 | Consequently , Type 2 patients do not need to assess control quite as frequently as the Type I patients once good glycaemic control has been achieved . |
| 5 | The assumption of those who decide where research money should go seems to be that surgeons do not need to participate in research ; they should be content to operate somewhere in the depths of the hospital and speak when spoken to . |
| 6 | Allow a maximum of 30 minutes per question ( if it is a 6-in-3-hours paper ) , using your stop watch so that you do not need to remember the time you started . |
| 7 | Or you can decide you do not need to commute to work but instead will participate in the 11am meeting in VR . |
| 8 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 9 | The Court found on the facts that it did not need to pronounce upon whether the provisions relating to the Gex Zone created a stipulation in favour of a third party , but warned that the existence of such rights should not be lightly assumed : each such claim must be separately examined to determine ‘ whether the States which have stipulated in favour of a third State meant to create for that State an actual right which the latter has accepted as such ’ . |
| 10 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 11 | Having been gently reminded by Lady Rutherford , ‘ We are all philanthropists here ; we do not need to put our hands up if we wish to speak ’ , William Morris completely forgot his shyness and at one stage became so carried away that he stood at the front of the room shaking hands with himself . |
| 12 | The fundamental one in an investigation of this kind is that we do not need to accept any prior assumption about how society at large is organized or structured , and so in our interpretation we do not need to import any presuppositions from theories of social class and social structure or taxonomies of class or status , which may of course be controversial . |
| 13 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 14 | Institutions of higher education do not need to conduct research in order to justify the title ‘ institution of higher education ’ . |
| 15 | He did not need to consult anyone about expenditure on funerals as these were routine occasions . |
| 16 | We know they are different — if they were identical we would not need to consult the doctor for purposes other than access to resources — but we can not understand why they differ in these particular ways . |
| 17 | One does not need to draw exaggerated conclusions from the differences between the left and right hand sides of the brain in order to accept that humanists and scientists may be different kinds of people . |
| 18 | erm there was a time , for instance , when we had members of parliament who were gentlemen of means , perhaps , and who did not need to draw salaries , erm and it was erm perhaps a gentleman amateur job , but it 's all changed totally now and now we recognise that erm to be a national politician is a career and erm it is a career which is perhaps rewarded at the going rate . |
| 19 | The Chancellor might be forced to raise rates again if sterling took a nosedive , but he did not need to sit with his finger on the trigger . |
| 20 | Even now they do not need peeling : a wash is enough . |
| 21 | If the floor does not need sanding , at least give it a good scrub and a final wash of white spirits , or a mixture of two parts water to one of ordinary vinegar . |
| 22 | You do not need to type in all the dates for yourself — the spreadsheet will do it for you . |
| 23 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 24 | You may then decide that either you do not need to interview anyone at all because no job exists or that you need to interview someone for a quite different role , perhaps involving taking on various responsibilities of other employees which together form a more rational and cohesive whole . |
| 25 | I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements . |
| 26 | We do not need to reach firm answers to these questions to see that the realities of British politics — both the process of electing a parliament and the relation of that elected body to those who actually form and control the machinery of state — certainly do not neatly correspond to or embody the original notion of government by the people or the people 's representatives . |
| 27 | They are looking only at aggregates and pig iron and other goods which can be trundled around the railways for many weeks and do not need to reach their destination at any particular time . |
| 28 | And we do not need to undergo years of psychoanalysis , or visit a hypnotist , or meditate for twelve hours a day , in order to seek self-knowledge . |
| 29 | I do not need to refer to this . |
| 30 | This would ensure that most pensioners would not need to rely on means-tested benefits . |