"born of need" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe something that was created or emerged as a result of necessity or desperation. It can also be used to explain the reason behind someone's actions or choices. Here is an example sentence: "The new invention was born of need, as people struggled to find a more efficient way to communicate over long distances."
Thus Pandora was born -- born out of need and desperation, born out of a longing and desire, the key to being free of the desolate world of shyness.
This theme of interdependence is central to Iñupiat stories, no doubt born of the need to help one another in order to survive the harsh Alaskan conditions.
Melnyczuk's method, born of his need to cover many years in a short space, is to present the reader with a great variety of event.
Miami, Syracuse and Boston College have been mentioned as candidates to leave the Big East, a defection born of a need to fill stadiums and wallets.
The 1992 European Union-United States agreement was born of the need to limit support for aircraft development on both sides.
Readers may find it difficult to see anything odder in her than a name, Ridley Iris Wandor, which seems born of a need to be dissected, anagrammatized.
The clubby living experience harks back to the late 19th century, when mansions were razed for apartment buildings: the residents-only restaurant was born of the need to attract "respectable society".
The United manager also said he believed that the post-season tours being undertaken by City and Chelsea next month, to the frustration of England manager Roy Hodgson who expects some players to convene for England duty on the day they complete a Transatlantic flight back, were born of financial need which doesn't afflict United.
Marr, however, has no bohemian myth to perpetuate; she's just getting by, and her sense of responsibility may be born of that need — she's a child of a practical generation — and she also has no illusions about the purity of her art or the dangers of selling out, because she seems simply to like playing music and has no reason to believe there will be many buyers.
But like most companies we cover, the idea was first born of personal need.
