Example sentences of "that needed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formerly , all that needed to be established was the fault required for common assault , i.e. intent or recklessness as to the application of some unlawful force to another . |
| 2 | He did n't say a word ; instead , he played very quietly a short quotation from an opera which said all that needed to be said . |
| 3 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 4 | ‘ Gordon is an established professional who has represented his country and played for his clubs with distinction and we took up his case because we felt it was a slur that needed to be removed . ’ |
| 5 | Best practice is always a moving target , and in the six years since the directive was issued there have been a number of developments in domestic and international financial reporting that needed to be reflected by credit institutions . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a position that needed to be articulated , ’ says Mr Lawrence , ‘ and I agree with him . |
| 7 | I had meant her to laugh , but instead she frowned as though my happiness was a puzzle that needed to be understood . |
| 8 | It said all that needed to be said in a clear enough manner . |
| 9 | One of the first things that needed to be done was to get a short survey of existing conditions , and with the help of all departments the following summary was made : Burma Today |
| 10 | The amount of time that needed to be spent in co-ordinating services , and in involving the residential care staff fully at each stage , was considerable , but this resulted in their incorporation in the family network , and rightful attendance at a family meeting . |
| 11 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 12 | Even more revolutionary , though , were the social adjustments that needed to be made to accommodate the new masses . |
| 13 | The Victorian novelist had accumulated a simple but coherent view of society but also the genius to tell stories that needed to be firmly set in a fully created social setting . |
| 14 | This initial stage was taken one step further in 1987 when the Association of Health for the People began working in the community and provided an analysis of the main problems that needed to be addressed , and suggested some solutions — all of which depended upon good communication between the local inhabitants . |
| 15 | Bad industrial relations was not the only barrier to success that needed to be dealt with . |
| 16 | Chris took the chair and I went through the list of things that needed to be done to get us off the ground : a bank account , an address and telephone number somewhere , an eye-catching logo . |
| 17 | Other critics have felt that local government was a crucial democratic check on central bureaucratic control that needed to be strengthened and given more autonomy and independence and greater say in determining local affairs . |
| 18 | However , we also identified problems that needed to be resolved : purposes have to be crystal clear ; matters of status , leadership and the division of responsibility have to be negotiated ; and all such collaborations have to be jointly planned . |
| 19 | Thus Sir Archibald Geikie ( of the Geological Survey ) in an address at Birmingham in 1898 deplored the idea of splitting schools into two sides or sections ; but the trend towards specialization proved hard to control , and to some the sciences did seem to be all that needed to be known . |
| 20 | Yeah , I think we should minute erm our appreciation of the action taken by yourself and the clerk in resolving this matter , because we did approve work erm and it became obvious after work was commenced that there was additional work that needed to be got on with |
| 21 | Eva 's knowledge of mathematics meant she could handle the budget at Usher with few problems — apart from the usual one of there never being enough money to do all that needed to be done . |
| 22 | On the chaise longue lay her brown wool skirt , neatly brushed , and beside it her pink striped blouse with a white collar that needed to be fastened on with studs . |
| 23 | ‘ Anything that needed to be countersigned was done by her . ’ |
| 24 | Unfortunately it is an extremely time-consuming process and at the time of the SEA much yet remained to be done before all the products that needed to be dealt with had in fact been covered . |
| 25 | She then turned her attention to the food that needed to be cooked , placing it within easy reach of the barbecue , and making sure the necessary utensils for handling it were nearby . |
| 26 | We arrived at ‘ Grinzing ’ for a typical ‘ Heuriger ’ dinner with 1/3 pint glasses of wine that needed to be constantly refilled . |
| 27 | You know maybe a vacuum that needed to be filled by and They looked at the case of the quarry strike and it 's sort of so glaring obvious for men and women all over the country that it 's er really a case of er wo working men and women being erm well being trampled upon really . |
| 28 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
| 29 | In Wagon Mound the kind of damage that needed to be foreseeable was fire damage . |
| 30 | In a recent House of Lords decision , R v Shephard 16 December 1992 , concerning s.69(1) ( b ) of PACE requiring a statement showing ‘ that at all material times the computer was operating properly ’ , Lord Griffiths stated that the nature of the oral evidence that needed to be provided varied according to the complexity of the computer and its operation . |