needful

Infinitive complement

• make: And there are two things needful to make a man dead to the law; ?
• explain: The mention of courage in this connection is needful to explain the silence.
• give: It's myself that would be sorry if it were needful to give you a lesson.
• place: Of course he has felt it needful to place a different spin on things.

Modifies a noun

• thing: We must accept our needful things wherever we find them.
• work: And today the needful work is to distinguish ourselves from our machines.
• supply: I am further directed to furnish you with the needful supplies and men.
• provision: I found an excellent presentation and discussion by David Cressey in the chapter called " Needful Provisions " in his book Coming Over.
• matter: I have needful matter in hand, Since I carry my tribute of fish to the jealous king of the land.
• time: We were very thankful to Satan for furnishing that good help at the needful time.

Modifying Another Word

• very: How very needful, therefore, it is to give earnest heed to the moral basis on which our prayers are presented.
• not: I might fitly let the matter pass without remark, were it not needful to rectify a grave misrepresentation.
• so: O poor Antonio, tho nothing be so needful To thy estate as pity, yet I find Nothing so dangerous!

Used with adjective complement

• think: And told him so much as I thought needful of the facts.
• seem: There is one other remark of a general kind which it seems needful to make.
• become: He worked himself into a fine breathing heat; in which, to a man of his temperament, action became needful.