Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] needed [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 2 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 3 | In such a big household there needed to be some organisation and control so father provided the discipline and mother tempered it with mercy . |
| 4 | Buildings constantly needed to be expanded or replaced . |
| 5 | No true blue inhabitant of Paradise Street or Mouncy Street ever needed to be told anything from the police ; they had ways of finding out . ) |
| 6 | Movies only needed to be social when the plot demanded it , and even if some kind of political crisis had to be depicted in a particular story then the attitude or position adopted by the movie would be less important to audiences than the logic of the plot . |
| 7 | A correction factor consequently needed to be applied to account for the ‘ missing ’ output — relative to the total output of the Scotch Whisky industry . |
| 8 | The linking midfield role still needed to be filled . |
| 9 | This situation went against the grain , as the top brass always needed to be on top of every situation and on top of every executive if they were to do their jobs to their own satisfaction ; not necessarily in the best interests of the Corporation , that is to say , but in their own best interests . |
| 10 | If the spiritual foundations of the drug culture ever needed to be proved again in the twentieth century , its great introductory fanfare in the 1960s surely did the trick . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If it were too small , the ‘ single ’ restriction might be removed ; if the whole family also needed to be sent to Japan this would add to the assignment costs , which might be an acceptable price to pay in order to send the right person . |