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01. If you [require] any special diet, please let the kitchen know ahead of time.
02. This airline seat-sale [requires] you to book your ticket at least a month in advance.
03. Children with learning disabilities [require] a lot of assistance at school.
04. Grizzly bears [require] a lot of space to live, so reducing the size of their habitat has a terrible effect on the numbers of animals born each year.
05. There is a Persian proverb that observes that one pound of learning [requires] ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
06. Studies show that the older a person gets, the less sleep he/she [requires].
07. The simple act of walking [requires] the use of 200 muscles in the human body.
08. Until about 150 years ago, church-going was [required] by law in England.
09. Many people need to learn a foreign language in order to satisfy an educational [requirement] of their university.
10. The distance [required] to stop a car is directly proportional to the square of the speed of the car.
11. Mary Pettibone Poole once said that to repeat what others have said [requires] education; to challenge it [requires] brains.
12. Obviously, one of the first [requirements] to be a firefighter is that you be in excellent physical shape.
13. Gustave Flaubert once said that to be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three [requirements] for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
14. Pythagoras noted that yes and no are the oldest and simplest words, but they [require] the most thought.
15. In Sparta in the 4th century, men over the age of 20 were [required] to eat a kilo of meat per day to give them courage.
16. Your computer doesn't meet the necessary system [requirements] for this software.
17. Liechtenstein imports more than 90% of its energy [requirements].
18. Visas are not [required] for Americans who plan to stay in England for less than three months.
19. The city has passed a law [requiring] dog owners to clean up after their pets in public parks.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • require — re‧quire [rɪˈkwaɪə ǁ ˈkwaɪr] verb [transitive] formal 1. to officially demand that people do something, because of a law or rule: require somebody to do something • the ruling requiring companies to disclose the value of stock require that …   Financial and business terms

  • Require — Re*quire (r? kw?r ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Required} ( kw?rd ); p. pr. & vb. n. {Requiring}.] [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ?rir; L. pref. re re + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See {Query}, and cf. {Request}, {Requisite}.] 1.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • require — [ri kwīr′] vt. required, requiring [ME requiren < base of OFr requerre < VL * requaerere, for L requirere < re , again + quaerere, to ask] 1. to ask or insist upon, as by right or authority; demand [to require obedience] 2. to order;… …   English World dictionary

  • require — The construction with a to infinitive, as in I require to know your names, is not idiomatic in BrE but is known in other varieties of English. The type Do you require tea? is chiefly confined to BrE …   Modern English usage

  • require — [v1] need, want crave, depend upon, desire, feel necessity for, have need, hurting for, lack, miss, stand in need, wish; concepts 20,646 Ant. dislike, have, not want require [v2] ask, demand; necessitate assert oneself, beg, beseech, bid, call… …   New thesaurus

  • require — ► VERB 1) need for a purpose; depend on. 2) wish to have. 3) instruct or expect (someone) to do something. 4) (require of) regard (an action or quality) as due from. 5) specify as compulsory: the minimum required by law. ORIGIN Latin …   English terms dictionary

  • require — I (compel) verb assess, call for, cause, coerce, command, constrain, decree, demand, dictate, direct, draft, drive, enact, enforce, enjoin, entail, exact, exigere, force, impose, insist on, issue a command, levy, make, necessitate, obligate,… …   Law dictionary

  • require — (v.) c.1300, to ask a question, inquire, from O.Fr. requerre, from V.L. *requaerere, from L. requirere seek to know, ask, from re repeatedly + quaerere ask, seek (see QUERY (Cf. query)). The original sense of this word has been taken over by… …   Etymology dictionary

  • require — 1 exact, claim, *demand Analogous words: *prescribe, assign, define: warrant, *justify 2 *lack, want, need …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • require — verb ADVERB ▪ urgently ▪ Many of the refugees urgently require medical treatment. ▪ reasonably (law, esp. BrE) ▪ generally, normally, typically …   Collocations dictionary

  • require — v. 1) (D; tr.) to require from, of (she requires a term paper of each student) 2) (esp. BE) (G) the house requires painting 3) (H) we require all incoming students to take placement examinations 4) (K) this position requires your getting here on… …   Combinatory dictionary

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