Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] need [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 2 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 3 | It is my belief that the nature and scale of the change needed is unprecedented . |
| 4 | Even if all the aid needed is pledged , it will arrive too late . |
| 5 | He felt that the investment needed was not particularly high compared to other activities , and that there would be a good chance of staffing such a unit on a small scale . |
| 6 | All the weight has to be used to make the tail dig in , so the posture needed is exactly that of a very bad carve gybe , ie straight front leg , leaning back and pulling the rig towards you . |
| 7 | Brian Leith 's job was to film the political campaign of a Sarawak conservationist , when the last thing the campaign needed was Western broadcasters hanging around . |
| 8 | The equipment needed was quite elementary — padded trestles to lay the wings on , and cradles for holding them upright , small portable drilling machines and riveting guns and general metal fitting tools for one man and a woman assistant at each repair position . |
| 9 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 10 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 11 | ‘ People are entitled to be angry — the cynical deceit of the Tory election campaign , the easy promise that all the economy needed was the reassurance of a Tory victory , all now exposed in the harsh light of the real world . ’ |
| 12 | The amount needed is estimated by the scheme actuary and this can vary from year to year , according to how much money is accumulated and how much the scheme is likely to have to pay out in benefits . |
| 13 | In the use of n-grams or a dictionary check to rule out letter sequences that do not appear in English , the information needed is a list of English words , or perhaps a large corpus of text from which to extract such a list and/or the list of n-grams for whichever values of n are necessary . |
| 14 | Indeed in some disciplines , such as diagnostic speech therapy and psychiatry , it would be difficult to provide the service other than through a bilingual professional because so much of the information needed is contained in the language usage . |
| 15 | The analysis needed is the same as that used to walk in a square . |
| 16 | His general note was one of chiding MacDonald for the weakness of his control over his own extremists and suggesting that what the country needed was men of practical experience , breadth of view and lack of dogmatic commitment . |
| 17 | Most of the technology needed is already known . |
| 18 | Margaret Thatcher had created a ‘ supermarket society ’ where the only thing a society needed was a credit card and the only freedoms that mattered were those that could be bought . |
| 19 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |