"foreseen the need" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when discussing anticipating or predicting a future need or requirement. For example: "The company had foreseen the need for expansion and had already secured a larger office space." This sentence suggests that the company had predicted the need for a larger office space before it actually became necessary. Another example: "The government had not foreseen the need for stronger border security, leading to an influx of illegal immigration." Here, the word "foreseen" implies that the government did not anticipate the need for stronger border security, resulting in a problem.
Mrs. Gardner could never have foreseen the need for and expense of climate control nor the public benefit of lending artworks for short periods of time to traveling exhibitions.
What's more, Nick Clegg and his colleagues had foreseen the need to change the voting system, having secured, as part of the negotiations that preceded their entry into government, an agreement to hold a referendum on a change to a fairer system of voting.
Considering tagged photo sharing on the web was what originally made Facebook go viral, why hadn't it foreseen the need for a bigger mobile-photos play?
As the Asian region and the developing world saw the rise of labor migration flows since the 1980s, various countries have foreseen the need to establish international and regional agreements to outline the rights of migrant workers.
It is a disgrace that large countries in the past have not foreseen the need to train, and countries like Germany and the United Kingdom should not be having to bring in workers from elsewhere.
She foresaw the need for a logo and business cards.
In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt charted a second plan, which foresaw the need to invest in electrical generation.
It also foresees the need to set up transit camps near the Iraqi border for as many as 500,000 people.
It is likely to be the last for some time, as Mr. Monti said Thursday that he did not foresee the need to ask Parliament to authorize new spending in the near future.
"I don't foresee the need for Spain to come, but there is a lot of money available," Klaus P. Regling, chief executive of the euro zone's current bailout fund, said here Tuesday at his staff headquarters.
In 1979, Garcia hired him as "official historian" (how many other bands would foresee the need for such an apparent luxury, let alone deserve it?) after reading McNally's first book, a literary biography of Jack Kerouac and the Beat scene.
