1.  All four heads took the unprompted view that there was a desperate need for professional library staff in secondary schools.

2.  But then, of course, the club had a desperate need of publicity to keep their generous new sponsors happy.

3.  He had a desperate need to control both people and events.

4.  His fear of blood had been overcome tonight because of his desperate need not to be a killer of animals.

5.  One motive, of course, was his desperate need for some congenial company.

6.  The hospital is full of people in desperate need of medical attention.

7.  The knocking was continuous now, as though some one were in desperate need.

8.  There is a desperate need to build more housing.

9.  There is a desperate need to provide these precious specimens with surroundings that are better designed to ensure their preservation.

10.  They are in desperate need of food, clothing and shelter.