Example sentences of "needed [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Vernon Malcolm , managing director of the company which supplies parts for Nissan , said most of his employees were paid at least £3.40 an hour , but he needed to be able to set his own rates of pay rather than having them imposed by government . |
| 32 | She had her faults — she needed to be push-started and she had lost gears the way old people lose teeth — but it was difficult not to love her . |
| 33 | He needed to be alone ; to start unravelling the knots . |
| 34 | I needed to be alone . |
| 35 | He needed to be alone . |
| 36 | A young couple in the first blissful days of their union needed to be alone together . |
| 37 | I knew that he needed to be alone to think about all that he had heard . |
| 38 | She needed to be alone , and there was nowhere among all the tents and sideshows where she could hope to escape the milling crowd . |
| 39 | She needed to be alone to sort out the battery of questions , to think . |
| 40 | She needed to be alone for this . |
| 41 | Now Helen , loving and admiring him , had given him the confidence he needed to be happy . |
| 42 | She needed to be disenchanted too , from this shape in which she was held prisoner . |
| 43 | We needed to be clear about the nature and purpose of English as a school subject . |
| 44 | That was why he needed to be funny with other people . |
| 45 | For Poland to be effective and block the Tsar 's advance on Central Europe , it needed to be large . |
| 46 | Besides , women workers might be cheaper , but too many depressed breadwinners could damage national morale , and morale needed to be high for what was coming . |
| 47 | The original , dark Magoi were farmed in flooded rice paddies to provide protein in areas whose remoteness meant that every community needed to be self-sufficient . |
| 48 | Just for a few minutes , she needed to be near to him . |
| 49 | But it was because I needed other women , and I needed to be truthful about it . |
| 50 | She needed to be sick . |
| 51 | It only needed to be true enough of the time . |
| 52 | Although recognising that AEA needed to be proactive in approaching possible privatisation many thought ‘ Why change now , whilst announcing that the BZW report had yet to be considered by DTI . ’ |
| 53 | I suppose it amuses me and I never needed to be amused before , not when he was here to do it . |
| 54 | I also needed to be knowledgeable about the procedures , likely outcomes and prognosis so that I could give full and accurate explanations to Mrs Allen . |
| 55 | Obviously the ring had to be designed so that it was not uncomfortable to wear , but at the same time the key part needed to be intricate enough to serve a lock . |
| 56 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 57 | For rectification to be applicable , there needed to be some prior agreement between the parties , the agreement still needed to be effective when the instrument ( ie the s 54 agreement ) was effected , and the instrument should have failed because of a mistake . |
| 58 | In Wagon Mound the kind of damage that needed to be foreseeable was fire damage . |
| 59 | But no one needed to be afraid of a future where 17 million ‘ dynamic ’ East Germans were united with 62 million West Germans . |