Example sentences of "[pron] is need be [art] " in BNC.

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1 What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day .
2 But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge .
3 There is evidence particularly on the political right of a view that ‘ multiple citizenship ’ is somehow inconsistent with British citizenship , whereas what is needed is a way of combining a sense of belonging to the British , English , Welsh , Scottish or ( more problematic still ) the Northern Ireland community at the same time as feeling a sense of community with other groups .
4 What is needed is a lean , muscular , high-turnover stock presented in attractive and imaginative ways …
5 What is needed is a change in the processes of decision-making so that policies are informed from below by the people involved , who are the only ones who really know what life there is like and what people really want and are able to do .
6 What is needed is a public examination system based outside school , which will act as an incentive , not an inhibition , to curricular reform , and will as far as is possible assess pupils accurately , without at too early a stage designating some as ‘ non-examinable ’ or beyond the educational pale .
7 Just as the post-war local government system can be understood as a key element of the social-democratic consensus developed in that period , so it has been argued that ‘ what is needed is a new municipal culture ’ to fit the changed social and economic realities of the late twentieth century ( Walker , 1983 , p. 10 ) .
8 What is needed is a structure which encourages accountability and quality assurance in the service of local need .
9 Clearly , what is needed is a control structure where the plausibility checker either is allowed to say what part of a logical form it objects to , or ( more preferably , given our remarks earlier about strong and weak preferences ) is given a set of bindings for each anaphor and is allowed to weed out implausible ones .
10 What is needed is a couple of examples to bring out the difference sharply .
11 What is needed is a transmitter sufficiently cheap , compact and low-powered to be installed in every home .
12 We believe that what is needed is a systematic way of evaluating both the positive contribution made by the presence of an airfield as well as the adverse impact involved .
13 What is needed is a plain , simple , and straightforward , ‘ I do forgive you . ’
14 What is needed is a leader who will set an example in worship and give some brief teaching from the scriptures .
15 What is needed is a positive Lib-Lab programme with common candidates starting in local and by-elections .
16 Rose had been present in the audience at the press conference and afterwards commented to Taylor that ‘ What is needed is a detector of neutrons that has good energy resolution and is very efficient ’ ( so as to be able to determine a distribution of energies of the neutrons and determine whether they were being produced uniformly in all directions — as in thermonuclear fusion from a static plasma — or instead were on the average moving in some particular direction ) .
17 What is needed is a policy that protects access but saves the environment , that allows sensitive development in the interests of the residents but prevents exploitation .
18 What is needed is a mechanism for ensuring that policy is carried out , rather than obstructed ; and that those entrusted with promoting policy actively identify with it .
19 What is needed is a period of steady law-making on the back of the economic recovery now unfolding .
20 This could be due either to the failure of these methods to elevate Ca 2+ in the appropriate manner ( presumably what is needed is a large transient within spines ) or to the need for additional pre- and/or postsynaptic signals .
21 The trouble with [ a view that what is needed is a re-evaluation of the feminine ] is that it still leaves uncriticised the whole association of particular qualities with the masculine and others with the feminine …
22 Rather , what is needed is a critique of the polarisation of masculine and feminine qualities , and in particular a critique of the way in which such qualities may be interpreted or clustered. ( pp. 47–8 )
23 Often problems seem intractable because the same solutions are tried time and time again without success , whereas what is needed is a new approach and fresh thinking .
24 What is needed is a clarification of roles so that the considerable potential which the evaluators have observed is fully exploited within such initiatives .
25 What is needed is a means to link the essentially mechanistic — though technically quite tricky — process of econometric analysis to other information from the marketplace about responses to advertising .
26 What is needed is a transformation — usually called an algorithm — that can be carried out on a key to yield a storage address .
27 Therefore , what is needed is a critical relationship within the story-telling or story-showing within and between the form and the issue .
28 More radical , because they insist that what is needed is a trade union education that recognises the political and economic causes that underlie workplace concerns , and that brings together and questions the common experiences of a range of working people .
29 Nkomo had convinced him that the black and white people in South Africa are inter-dependent , that bitterness clouds honest thought , and that what is needed is a God-led , non-racial ideology .
30 What is needed is a performance measure that gives some idea of how well a machine performs on non-maths applications ( such as text editing ) and on maths intensive applications ( Spreadsheets etc . )
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