Example sentences of "[Wh det] i need [is] a " in BNC.

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1 What I need is a nice girl , ’ he said .
2 What I need is a miracle . ’
3 What I need is a New Testament Christianity that speaks to the modern man that I am now ; a faith , in short , that is real and challenging to modernity .
4 What I need is a holiday somewhere nice , Florida methinks .
5 What I need is a vet for my cat , ’ she said .
6 What I need is a couple of hours ’ peace and quiet and I 'll be fine for the presentation tomorrow — besides , ’ she added persuasively , ‘ it 's not as if the party was being thrown for us .
7 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent .
8 What I need is a nice little research job where I can write my books and keep well away from them . ’
9 What I need is an introduction to a new house , where I can meet these fresh delightful creatures . ’
10 What I need is an undertaker .
11 And what I need is an ‘ ot cocoa , or an ‘ ot something ’ .
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