I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a need for cooperation
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There is a need for closer cooperation between the departments.
an urgent need
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There is an urgent need for stricter regulation.
be badly in need of sth (= need sth very much )
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He felt badly in need of a cup of coffee.
be in need of repair
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Many of the cottages were badly in need of repair.
desperately want/need
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The crops desperately need rain.
don’t need this...crap (= used when you are angry about the way someone is behaving towards you )
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I don’t need this kind of crap .
eliminate a need/possibility/risk/problem etc
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The credit card eliminates the need for cash or cheques.
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There is no solution that will totally eliminate the possibility of theft.
emphasizing...need
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Logan made a speech emphasizing the need for more volunteers.
energy needs/requirements
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65% of the country’s energy needs are met by imported oil.
fill a need/demand
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Volunteers fill a real need for teachers in the Somali Republic.
fulfils...need
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There is little doubt that the scheme fulfils a need for our community.
human needs (= the things people need to have in order to live a normal healthy comfortable life )
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The islanders meet the universal basic human needs of food and shelter in unexpected ways.
in dire need of
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The country is in dire need of food aid.
in sore need of
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Inner city schools are in sore need of extra funds.
individual needs
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You can have the bathroom designed to suit your individual needs .
need a break
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I’m sorry, I can’t do any more - I need a break.
need a firm hand
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These children need a firm hand .
need a minimum of sth ( also require a minimum of sth formal )
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We’ll need a minimum of two days to get this ready.
need a miracle
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He'll need a miracle to pass this test.
need a vacation
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You're working too hard. You need a vacation.
need assistance
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Phone this number if you need any assistance.
need cleaning
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Your shoes need cleaning .
need cooperation
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Schools need the cooperation of parents.
need encouragement
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These kids just need some encouragement, that's all.
need help
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Some of the older patients need help with walking.
need information
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When I needed information for my report, Jack was always extremely helpful.
need modification ( also require modification formal )
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Some of the older power stations urgently needed modification.
need notice ( also require notice formal )
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The company requires a month’s notice of any holiday time you would like to take.
need permission
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You'll need written permission from your parents first.
need practice
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She needs more practice.
need proof
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He needed proof to back up those allegations.
need protection ( also require protection formal )
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He seemed to think that she needed protection.
need surgery ( also require surgery formal )
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He is likely to need surgery in the near future.
need the toilet British English (= need to use the toilet )
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Does anyone need the toilet before we set off?
need/require a permit
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EU citizens no longer need a permit to work in the UK.
need/require an explanation
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We think the minister’s decision requires an explanation.
need/require care
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She had an aging mother who required constant care.
need/require consideration
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Money is usually the first issue that needs consideration.
need/require equipment
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For scuba diving, you’ll need specialized equipment.
need/require expertise
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It’s a specialist job that requires expertise.
need/require preparation
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Important competitions need proper preparation.
need/require supervision
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I do not need constant supervision.
need/require training
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The team will need extra software training.
need/require treatment
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All three were beaten so badly that they needed hospital treatment.
needs no introduction (= everyone already knows the person )
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Our first contestant needs no introduction .
need/want company
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Children need the company of other kids their age.
obviates the need
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The new treatment obviates the need for surgery.
pressing problem/matter/need etc
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Poverty is a more pressing problem than pollution.
require/need approval
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A multi-million pound project will require approval by the full board of directors.
satisfy a need
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Education must satisfy the needs of its pupils.
serve the needs/interests of sb/sth
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research projects that serve the needs of industry
sorely needed
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Your help is sorely needed .
special needs
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children with special needs
stress the need for sth
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She stressed the need for more effective policing.
suit sb's needs/requirements
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The building has been adapted to suit the needs of older people.
tailor sth to meet/suit sb’s needs/requirements
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The classes are tailored to suit learners’ needs.
the know-how needed
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the know-how needed by today’s practising lawyer
the last thing sb needs/wants
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The last thing she needed was for me to start crying too.
the needs of the individual
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The fitness program is adapted to the needs of the individual.
the needs of the learner
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The language in the coursebook is controlled to meet the needs of the learner.
There is a crying need for
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There is a crying need for doctors.
unconscious feeling/desire/need etc
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an unconscious need to be loved
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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The class may also need to know about important background dates like the date of the Second World War, and so on.
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We need sustenance and a viable habitat, but we also need social cohesion and connection of all sorts.
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The routing for the jet efflux also needs to be considered.
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Both parents also need basic knowledge about the possible interventions that may become necessary or may be offered.
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We will also need networks in the home for data and video distribution.
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You also need a feeling of coherence and consistency between your work and your beliefs.
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As people have more leisure, they also need better facilities for sport.
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Funds are also needed to provide wheelchairs and synthesizers.
badly
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The church there is undergoing difficult times and badly needs our prayers.
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The tribes will be forced to spend money they badly need for other things to defeat it.
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In one way I hated doing it, but it was exactly the sort of shot I badly needed to get.
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Forget the old adage about non-stop bicycling; the growing Community badly needs a decade of constitutional calm.
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Union leaders say the hot line is needed badly .
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From what I can see Bill Wyman also badly needs help.
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Netcom also has the expertise of working with Internet customers that a telephone company would need badly to succeed in the business.
desperately
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She needed desperately to be alone for a little while - to think.
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His hard, tough, unsentimental mind gave to the weak young republic the guidance it desperately needed .
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The world today desperately needs to build communities of love and peace.
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This team desperately needed a showman, and it got one when it persuaded Barkley to re-enlist.
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He has been endlessly harassed by the press who desperately need a story.
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It is in defense of democracy against this everpresent danger that a literacy based upon informed irreverence is most desperately needed .
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Duval, destroyed, looked as though he desperately needed the bell for the end of the round of golf.
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The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.
really
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Do we really need lots of people sitting around pondering on research topics that are of little benefit to man or beast?
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After last night, after any of these nights lately, I was so physically exhausted, I really needed sleep!
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We really need to catch this man before he attacks some one else.
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And who really needs rock music, hair coloring and makeup anyway?
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Something really needs to be done.
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It was so substantial that it really needs to be removed from the appetizer list and placed under entrees.
still
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Patients would still need to be treated every month.
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The auditorium was recently renovated for more than $ 2 million and still needs improvements.
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But you still need to prepare.
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Two key questions still need to be addressed: Do consumers want new services and will they pay for them?
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Many general practitioners still need to be convinced that their views will be listened to and where appropriate acted on.
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We still needed a product orientation, not job orientation, and we needed goals, measurement, comparison, and feedback.
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The cheapest proposal would still need five years to recoup its costs.
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There seems to be a lot of work still needed , but the pedal boat is only part of the mosaic.
urgently
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Of course something must be done to reduce road congestion: revenue taken from road-users urgently needs to be invested in roads.
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No wonder the rights of citizenship were granted only grudgingly, except when the town urgently needed to increase its population.
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Bragg says that universities urgently need to convince academics that popularising research is respectable.
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Successive dollars of income will go for less urgently needed goods and finally for trivial goods and services.
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After all, what most urgently needs thought in this century, if not the event and the phantasm?
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If we are going to maintain the modern world, then concerted action for the future is urgently needed .
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Some of the lines urgently need modernising.
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We will reform decision-making Britain urgently needs a better way of making economic decisions.
■ NOUN
attention
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You will need to pay attention to the first impression you make.
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But like Charles Frye, Rudi felt that his students needed counseling-and attention and support-at least as much as they needed teaching.
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Ron Deacon is adoptive father to five love bird chicks, who need constant care and attention .
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Doctors say she will need years of medical attention .
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The Beaumaris and District Civic Trust has highlighted problems which it says need attention .
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But in the end, something sound emerges from all the noise: An issue that needs attention gets it.
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We need to pay particular attention to two things.
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It is one of the blessings of nature that the lock is something which needs minor attention .
help
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Managers will need help to understand people's needs during a period of transition and also their own reactions to change.
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To avoid spinsterhood, she would need the help of her family.
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This means that there are more old people needing special help and proportionately fewer people of working age to provide for them.
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Shaving had an impact on his morale and he needed all the help he could get.
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He needed no help from men and women, and needed no partner.
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These were students who needed help , academically and in all the other ways that City College students needed help.
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It was insensitive to the champion's feelings but Henin looked as though she needed all the help she could get.
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On the other hand, work-inhibited students need all the help they can get in order to bolster their weak egos.
money
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But a merchant needs capital to trade with, and a government needs money to spend.
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He referred a couple of times to needing more money to do that.
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When I need more money , I get some work for a week or two.
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He needed the money for an eye operation for his wife.
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We have to: we need the money .
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Hey, Al needs some money .....
■ VERB
don
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The Who don t need the money, but they are hungry to be relevant.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a friend in need
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Posing as a friend in need it approaches the unsuspecting host and takes a bite, usually from the gills.
burning ambition/desire/need etc
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Both books, written out of what had gradually become a burning ambition, were however nothing more than starters.
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Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition.
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But they didn't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time.
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His own unashamed, burning ambition is' to make money.
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I just have never had a burning desire to practice law.
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It hadn't been an easy task, and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
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The second time, it was a passion, a burning desire.
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You see, she had this burning ambition to succeed on the stage.
compelling need/desire/urge (to do sth)
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And it was from these experiments that Work place 2000 emerged as the response to a compelling need for change.
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Most women with bulimia, particularly those with a history of anorexia, have a compelling desire to be thinner.
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Such freedoms can be abridged only if the state shows it has a compelling need to do so.
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Suddenly I had a compelling urge to look at Wilkerson.
crying need for sth
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There is a crying need for an international insolvency convention.
need some (more) meat on your bones
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Matt, you need some more meat on your bones!
need/want sth like a hole in the head
take/need a cold shower
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He put water on to boil and took a cold shower.
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I took a cold shower and changed my clothes.
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In the morning, when you get up, take a cold shower.
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Instead he took a cold shower and a huge mug of coffee, and tried to sort out his thoughts.
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There is one foolproof way to rid yourself of this - take a cold shower.
the last thing sb wants/expects/needs etc
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I like going to bed with her when going to bed with me is the last thing she wants.
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To be slipshod is to be hounded, which is the last thing he wants.
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With household costs inevitably rising, the last thing he wants is a larger mortgage than he can reasonably afford.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A job like nursing needs patience and understanding.
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Dave's been working really hard - he needs a holiday.
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Do you need some help?
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Do you still need volunteers to help clean up after the party?
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Don't forget, the plants need watering once a week.
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He needs the information for an article he's writing.
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I need a drink - coming to the bar?
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I needed some sleep.
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I think Brad's car needs new tires.
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I think she might need a doctor.
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It's cold outside -- you'll need a coat.
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It must have needed a great deal of self-discipline for you to lose so much weight in such a short time.
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My hair needs washing.
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Nancy is going to the store - do we need any milk?
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Teaching children to read needs a lot of patience and skill.
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The front room needs a coat of paint.
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The team badly needs a victory.
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We need to take the cat to the vet.
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What are the qualities that are needed for the job?
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You don't have to paint UPVC windows, and they need only an occasional wash down with detergent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is no evidence that they have exercised that responsibility when it has been most needed.
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But to have such an epidemic you need more than an easily transmissible bug.
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His talents were needed to rescue the situation, to merge the Virginia armies into a revitalized Army of the Potomac.
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Many patients need continuing care, follow up or rehabilitation.
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Smart public managers spend every penny of every line item, whether they need to or not.
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To do that there may be times when we need to put trust in a professional to help solve our difficulties.
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To meet all my criteria I needed to get a job.
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We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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Maslow, if we recall, suggested that this is one of our basic needs . 4.
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Romances, then, appeal to a basic need for mental escape and to our sense of practicality.
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Different interpretations might be applied to different organizations, but the basic information needs are the same.
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With basic needs in increasingly short supply, the social fabric of Cairo is showing signs of fraying.
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The social system has certain basic needs which must be met if it is to survive.
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People had jobs; basic needs were met.
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Meaningful work is satisfying because it is rooted in basic human needs .
desperate
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Education and health are in desperate need of investment.
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With hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of food and shelter, six more helicopters were sent from Pretoria.
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Often it can force frightened people in desperate need to take a pittance.
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His fear of blood had been overcome tonight because of his desperate need not to be a killer of animals.
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They felt a desperate need for credible values and a personal spiritual center.
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There is a desperate need to provide these precious specimens with surroundings that are better designed to ensure their preservation.
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He had a desperate need to control both people and events.
educational
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This compares with an estimated proportion of the school population with special educational needs of 20 percent.
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ACE/AGIT recommend that one of the governors undertakes to look after the interests of the children with special educational needs .
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By focusing on the educational needs of the poor, the act avoided the religious controversy that killed its proposals under Kennedy.
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Despite the integrative intentions of recent legislation, the Authority continued its administrative separation of special educational needs from primary education.
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Neglect of the educational needs of people starts at the very beginning.
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The chapter concludes by considering the implications of the Education Reform Act for under-fives and special educational needs .
great
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The existence of such a statement confirms that the child has greater special educational needs than most other children with such needs.
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She was in very great need of cheering up.
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There is a great need for music and art that cries out for change in this sad, sick society.
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One man who did this and filled a great need was James Watt.
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Their greater need is for explanations - or so their interest in these lessons suggests.
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Quality assurance must have a sufficiently comprehensive scope to identify all areas having the greatest need or potential for improvement. 4.
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Some day, some one will be in greater need than me.
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Apparently the savings in costs are greater than the need to function as an independent news source.
individual
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The time we spend attending to these individual needs is bound to vary somewhat.
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They must also cultivate the psychological flexibility to respond to ever-changing work, family, and individual needs .
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Specially tailored Plan to suit your individual needs .
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Others are due to discrepancies between individual workers' needs and their employers' require-ments.
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They are concerned with the problems of adapting designs to meet individual needs .
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And each business should choose its set carefully, to fit its individual needs .
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Providing for exceptional and individual needs may be more costly than providing for the average needs of fairly homogeneous groups of pupils.
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Within each individual sleep needs remain quite constant.
particular
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The staff of the receiving primary school would be alerted to the child's particular needs .
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These statements specify the educational and other provisions that are necessary to meet the pupil's particular needs .
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Every Partnership developing a Compact will design a management structure servicing its particular needs .
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These can all be customised to suit your particular needs .
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Many areas have special schemes which fit in with the particular needs of individual people at home.
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Many different disciplines need to be aware of the particular needs of such patients and the implications of new findings.
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Second, people feel that central government is remote from their particular needs .
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The differences, where there are any, will be dictated by the target group of learners and their particular needs .
pressing
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Funding issues For many centres, securing funding for the new qualifications is a pressing need .
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The most pressing need was probably in financial management.
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The spur for development in tests usually came from a pressing practical need .
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More pressing was the need to find shelter, food and extra clothing.
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Anomalies are also regarded as serious if they are important with respect to some pressing social need .
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But this is not a pressing need .
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A family business, with quite modest funds, has a pressing need for more capital.
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This reorganization in 1962 was largely a result of the pressing need of the railways for financial readjustment.
real
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After shifting through hundreds of pics of your gorgeous guys we found one that was in real need of a Hollywood make-over!
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Some day, there will undoubtedly be a real need for another independent counsel to investigate real wrongdoing by high officials.
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Sally's long blonde hair was in real need of conditioning and re-colouring.
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Short of clambering down there myself I could be no surer, and there was no real need for that.
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In identifying and responding to real needs he did not shrink from touching the painful spots.
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The time has come for Britain to cut its military spending and begin to use its limited resources for our real needs .
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They were introduced when there was a real need to get some hot food into the poor.
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It also enables older people to challenge what is done for them, and to make provision more in line with their real needs .
social
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The division between health and social needs can be narrowed by joint training.
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But often guilt and circumstances keep them from acting on their social needs .
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They are most likely to be attached to primary schools in areas of social need , or to special schools.
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He sees the trajectory of his industrial social formation in contradiction to meeting fundamental human and social needs .
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Swimming illustrates the overlap between sport and social need .
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Staff should be given relevant information about patients and their social and medical needs .
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The defence of qualified privilege has been developed in accordance with social needs .
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Whatever the relationship between state and society, policies may be interpreted as responses to perceived social needs .
special
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The tax credit will be $ 6, 000 for adoptions involving children with special needs .
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Not every hospital has the resources or the skilled nursing staff to see to the special needs of many of these patients.
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These memories may evoke in her a special need to be protected.
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The distribution of students with special needs among different types of courses is shown in Figure 11.27.
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Approximately one-fifth of all school children are believed to have special educational needs of one sort or another.
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It is important to bear this in mind in any study of the role of school governors in meeting special educational needs .
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Provision of special educational needs was the most worrying area.
urgent
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Roughly half the children who are adopted feel an urgent need to discover their origins.
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Yet at the same time he offers the black underclass, and its more urgent needs , little more than benign neglect.
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In the 1960s this preoccupation gave way to an urgent need to consider domestic problems such as racial disharmony and poverty.
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The thousands of visitors to the excavations have shown there is an urgent need to make the site into an archaeological park.
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On the Avon, some of the weirs date back 1,000 years and are in urgent need of restoration.
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A fresh start By April 1991 Pearl had recognised the urgent need for change.
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The church should be able to respond to these urgent needs more effectively than any other group and provide clear leadership.
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Blood began to course into the gristle to make it erect again, and he was suddenly full of urgent need .
■ VERB
eliminate
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Dedicated to non-man entry sewer repair and maintenance, the Sika-Robot cuts costs by eliminating the need to excavate pipes.
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The soft new mud automatically eliminated the need for plowing and fertilization.
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This eliminates the need for an operator at the machine itself to intervene continually in the production process.
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This system also eliminates the need for expensive electronic amplifiers.
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It eliminates the need to search the file sequentially.
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That eliminated the need for a new check.
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This also eliminates the need to scroll to find data, which would defeat the purpose of having a command centre.
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This eliminates the need for investors having to call different fund families for prospectuses.
emphasize
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The report also emphasized the need for adequate training and supervision of personnel working in this area.
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They emphasize the need for the abuser to know his feelings, identify his inner frustrations and redirect his responses.
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Services have thus frequently emphasized the need for custody, punishment and control rather than for rehabilitation and reintegration.
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Intransigence and personal suffering highlighted the principle at stake and emphasized the need of fighting for it.
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Such statutes however constitute a complicating factor and emphasize the need for long-term solutions through international understanding.
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To redress the imbalance between the photograph and the original he emphasizes the need for more original art in more public places.
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He emphasizes the need for proper training for people in both new types of job.
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The following chapter emphasizes the need for man to be ever in communication even through the squeeze of a hand.
feel
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It's the first time any Oxford college has felt the need to take such measures.
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Some of them feel a need to defend this by writing indigestible, difficult to understand books that are incoherent.
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She had hoped that after so long here nomole would ever feel the need to ask her.
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Nevertheless, I feel the need to unburden myself in print.
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He feels no need to conceal his personal ambition.
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Why did Joe Fogarty feel the need to protect Jack Diamond?
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Whether they knew George Pittendrigh or not they felt a need to be solemn, to show at least an awareness of mortality.
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Because depressed adolescents often feel a greater need for acceptance, they may be more likely to smoke if their peers do.
fill
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Others can fill your needs , like finding a reliable defender.
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It was vital to fill those needs so that women would begin to buy tickets and travel by airlines.
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The wide acceptance of this style guide, and similar ones in other disciplines, suggests that it fills a need .
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He could get his feet on the ground by filling a lefty bullpen need .
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Antonia Fraser's admirable book has entirely filled that need .
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One man who did this and filled a great need was James Watt.
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Engineering does not start by knowing the answers but by attempting to fill the need .
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Where bilingual ballots do fill a need is in the initiatives such as bond issues, charter amendments and the like.
fulfil
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Many meetings help individuals and groups to overcome their particular problems or fulfil an emotional need .
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Thus, a reasonable immediate goal would be to direct our domestic oil Production towards fulfilling domestic transportation needs .
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It appeared that we had fulfilled a need among people.
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Only needs not yet satisfied can influence behavior; an adequately fulfilled need is not a motivator.
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Avoid them for two weeks, but substitute other foods that will fulfil your nutritional needs .
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It is almost as though the fear and the response fulfil a national need .
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First, the structure of the building must be adequate in space and design to fulfil the needs of the department.
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The first was that the Sisters were fulfilling a need .
identify
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Does it adequately outline assessment procedures which will identify the needs of the deaf child?
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School-based enterprises and service learning projects allow students to identify and address community needs .
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The purchaser should identify the need for an independent valuation as early as possible to avoid subsequent delay nearer completion.
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The infant can feel at one with its care-taker because the caretaker identifies with the needs of the infant.
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The probability of socially disadvantaged children being identified as having special needs is very much greater than in other children.
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To facilitate medical care by providing a basis for identifying individuals in need of follow-up treatment. 3.
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The first two chapters offer a definition of spirituality and a way of identifying spiritual need .
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Work is in hand on identifying information needs and relevant publicity material is in preparation.
meet
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Money could then be ploughed into smaller projects which create jobs, meet the needs of local people and conserve the environment.
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Heart failure means that the heart muscle is not pumping well enough to meet the need for oxygen-rich blood.
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Consumers are thought to be waiting to see if new mobile phone services and email via television meet their needs .
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Attempts to rebuild the curriculum so as more nearly to meet the socioeconomic needs of the region are beset with cultural obstacles.
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The model of pragmatic mediation that I am proposing here is designed to meet that need .
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She exerts tremendous levels of energy to meet his every need .
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Tranquilliser Dependence Many local drug treatment centres provide services to meet the particular needs of people dependent on drugs such as tranquillisers.
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Once again, they were not especially oriented to meeting strategic corporate needs .
obviate
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The settlement, which concluded four months of negotiations, obviated the need for the separate cases to be heard in court.
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That violence was unacceptable obviated the need to search for a sufficient cause.
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They rolled up and down perfectly and their presence obviated the need for curtains.
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But such divine activity does not obviate the urgent need for witness.
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He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
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Instead, data are provided directly and more timely to obviate this need .
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I obviate the need to travel.
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My language awareness course is intended to obviate the need for it by enabling any teacher to learn alongside the pupils.
satisfy
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Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
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This could satisfy the need of mixed-race people to be able to specify who they are.
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Surveys ought to focus on how parents and children perceive the ways in which the school satisfies their needs .
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Since the end of the cold war the efforts of Washington have been devoted to satisfying the needs of the financial sector.
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It becomes too big and unwieldy and no longer possesses sufficient land to satisfy the needs of all.
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But pay they do, because it satisfies some pathetic psychological need .
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Qualitative information satisfies the need for trends of what is happening in markets.
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When man has satisfied his physical needs , then psychologically grounded desires take over.
serve
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If, however, the schools offered the prospect of serving such obvious needs why, then, did the experiment collapse?
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It was ideally located, perfectly engineered and specifically oriented to serving the needs of airplane builders and users.
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Nor were they able to serve new needs in radically different ways.
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Industry watchers say that record companies have cut production of an unprofitable product that no longer serves the needs of the industry.
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More fundamentally, the design activity will be meaningless unless it is directed towards serving some human need .
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It serves our needs in ways that the giants can not, which is spiritual rather than practical.
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Some councils have tried to tackle this difficulty through a policy of permitting only those new developments that will serve local needs .
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And Trowbridge will design any menu to serve your individual needs .
stress
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But while recommending such long-term plans, I must stress the need for flexibility.
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And a commission run by former Defense Secretary Harold Brown stressed last year the need for a younger work force.
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In view of this, the committee stressed the need to restrict the availability of highly hazardous pesticides.
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The report also stressed the need for a clear mission for the district.
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He also stressed the need for faster and more sophisticated vessels to combat modern smuggling by sea.
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Throughout the day, party chieftains stressed the need to focus on the competition.
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It has stressed the need for personal and family responsibility within a framework of the local community or neighbourhood.
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We have already stressed the need for you to keep your notes and assignments in properly labelled and categorised loose-leaf folders.
suit
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Furniture should be versatile enough to suit different needs and situations which might well change over the years.
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Most near-Earth asteroids follow trajectories that are much better suited to the needs of belt-bound Earthlings.
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Language training to suit specific needs 2.
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Sometimes the only way to end discrimination against older people is to offer positive measures to suit their special needs .
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Specially tailored Plan to suit your individual needs .
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These can all be customised to suit your particular needs .
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A concept, rather than a uniquely defined product, it will be implemented to suit customer's individual needs .
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We offer a specially designed Franchise Loan which can be tailor-made to suit your needs .
understand
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You must make him understand the need for secrecy.
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Of all the servants, the only one who really understood my need to do things for myself was Koju.
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NatWest understands your needs and is pleased to help.
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On board there was now a widespread and unspoken understanding of the need to husband our resources.
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This man understands the need to get the product on the market at the right time.
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When management shared such information, employees could understand the need to change.
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There are also people of a naturally equable temperament who intuitively understand the need for preparatory mourning and adjust their lives accordingly.
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Many people understand the need to deregulate the private sector, but few apply the same thinking to the public sector.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a friend in need
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Posing as a friend in need it approaches the unsuspecting host and takes a bite, usually from the gills.
answer a need
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Previously, most units had a clean-lined, contemporary look that did not answer needs of style-conscious traditionalists.
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Your answer need not be quite as full as the explanations given here.
burning ambition/desire/need etc
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Both books, written out of what had gradually become a burning ambition, were however nothing more than starters.
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Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition.
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But they didn't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time.
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His own unashamed, burning ambition is' to make money.
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I just have never had a burning desire to practice law.
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It hadn't been an easy task, and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
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The second time, it was a passion, a burning desire.
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You see, she had this burning ambition to succeed on the stage.
compelling need/desire/urge (to do sth)
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And it was from these experiments that Work place 2000 emerged as the response to a compelling need for change.
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Most women with bulimia, particularly those with a history of anorexia, have a compelling desire to be thinner.
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Such freedoms can be abridged only if the state shows it has a compelling need to do so.
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Suddenly I had a compelling urge to look at Wilkerson.
crying need for sth
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There is a crying need for an international insolvency convention.
feed an addiction/need etc
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The feed needs to be as iron-free as possible in order that the eventual meat will be the light colour preferred by consumers.
feel the need to do sth
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Some magazines feel the need to be controversial.
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Adult players, by contrast, feel the need to equip themselves with the best.
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Don't you feel the need to pray?
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Nevertheless, I feel the need to unburden myself in print.
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She considered tracking them, but didn't feel the need to make any particular point of it.
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She had hoped that after so long here nomole would ever feel the need to ask her.
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They feel the need to inject young and hungry talent into the bank's deliberations at the highest level.
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Why he felt the need to record these deaths he could not explain.
meet a need/demand/requirement/condition etc
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Booksellers are in the vanguard and many of them simply can not get enough books to meet demand.
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But, on the theory, to ask if it is true is just to ask if it meets a need.
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Compaq are accelerating production in an attempt to meet demand.
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Education, training and skills development is another way in which the government attempts to meet demands for labour.
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Then it meets requirements for his powerful living.
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There was something fishy about the way supply met demand in an investment bank.
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To meet demand, Cirrus is stepping up production.
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Under the present system the Central Electricity Generating Board is charged with ensuring there is enough power station capacity to meet demand.
need some (more) meat on your bones
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Matt, you need some more meat on your bones!
need/want sth like a hole in the head
should the need arise
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He knew that should the need arise for him to burst into consciousness, he would.
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The network topology is such that new file-servers can be plugged in at any time should the need arise .
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What she needed was a weapon of some sort, something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise .
take/need a cold shower
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He put water on to boil and took a cold shower.
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I took a cold shower and changed my clothes.
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In the morning, when you get up, take a cold shower.
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Instead he took a cold shower and a huge mug of coffee, and tried to sort out his thoughts.
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There is one foolproof way to rid yourself of this - take a cold shower.
the last thing sb wants/expects/needs etc
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I like going to bed with her when going to bed with me is the last thing she wants.
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To be slipshod is to be hounded, which is the last thing he wants.
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With household costs inevitably rising, the last thing he wants is a larger mortgage than he can reasonably afford.
when/if the need arises
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They are ready to fight if the need arises .
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Alterations to your flight details sometimes occur for operational reasons and we reserve the right to make these if the need arises .
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As and when the need arises , sub-committees will be established to consider specific environmental issues.
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Families, too, are a great source of help and are roped in when the need arises .
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Her powers seem curiously independent of age, and she can call upon extraordinary sources of energy when the need arises .
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In fact, they could prop up the Conservative Government for a fifth term, if the need arises !
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The other side of this coin is an impressive surge capability on hand when the need arises .
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They remain like this motionless with the woman stemming any premature ejaculatory urges by squeeze control, if the need arises .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Carlton acknowledged that there was a need for stricter safety regulations at some of the sites.
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Don't you ever feel the need to take a vacation?
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The need to improve teaching standards is recognized; however, it is not something that is going to happen overnight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But is this fair on clients who are vulnerable and in need ?
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Careful analysis of the needs and, above all, the capabilities of the intended user is also essential.
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David's need for a son had become an obsession.
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Despite her need of medical attention, the night was young and there was still time to celebrate.
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However, the family spoke Punjabi exclusively at home and had very strong views on the need to do this.
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National associations also tend to sponsor larger schemes in the more important settlements rather than in areas of isolated housing need .
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Such changes are, however, being implemented by people who have the needs of the mentally handicapped at heart.
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Travel office Rauraje Deshprabhu will fix any of your local needs, and additional airline tickets.