need of reform
collocation in Englishmeaningsofneedandreform
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need
noun
uk/niːd/us/niːd/
the state of having to have something that you do not have, especially something that you must have so that you can have a ...
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reform
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈfɔːm/us/rɪˈfɔːrm/
an improvement, especially in a person's behaviour or in the structure ...
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(Definition ofneedandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The students offered few examples of deficiencies inneedofreform.
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As discussed in section 1, the permitting system is sorely inneedofreform.
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Soviet opera in the 1920s had been a desultory affair and was in urgentneedofreform.
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In the age of the multiparty system, this electoral system was clearly inadequate and inneedofreform.
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It is in soreneedofreform.
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It is definitely inneedofreform.
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It is clearly inneedofreform.
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The system is inneedofreform.
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It is patently inneedofreform.
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However, it is inneedofreform.
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That committee is in urgentneedofreform.
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Adoption services and adoption laws are inneedofreform.
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These regulations have long been inneedofreform.
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The system was badly inneedofreform.
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Everyone recognises that housing benefit is inneedofreform.
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The agricultural policy is definitely inneedofreform.
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Is not this inneedofreformnow?
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International institutions are badly inneedofreform.
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The present rules are urgently inneedofreform.
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Licensing, therefore, is urgently inneedofreform.
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Our employers' associations are also inneedofreform.
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Our extradition arrangements are in urgentneedofreform.
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So those two areas are in cryingneedofreform.
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There are many aspects of local government financial assistance which are clearly inneedofreform.
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There is no doubt that the present system is badly inneedofreform.
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