Example sentences of "[is] needed be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that is needed is a smear of silicone lubricant over the end of the pipe and the inside of the fitting . |
| 2 | What is needed is a couple of examples to bring out the difference sharply . |
| 3 | The style must disclose and be expressive of the moods , emotions and actions of the roles played even where few personal feelings are allowed to show , as in such ballets as Ashton 's Monotones where all that is needed is a calm , unhurried and seemingly endless weaving of the dance design in all its dimensions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What is needed is a change in management — staff relationships . |
| 6 | 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 ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ) |
| 10 | What is needed is a willingness to be open to fresh possibilities — to be prepared for a constant voyage of exploration . |
| 11 | A major attraction of dolphin and porpoise hunting is the low operating costs - all that is needed is a harpoon and fuel for the boat . |
| 12 | All that is needed is a cushion and a blindfold . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What is needed is a structure which encourages accountability and quality assurance in the service of local need . |
| 15 | What is needed is a transformation — usually called an algorithm — that can be carried out on a key to yield a storage address . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | What is needed is a clarification of roles so that the considerable potential which the evaluators have observed is fully exploited within such initiatives . |
| 18 | All that is needed is a pool-liner that is larger in one dimension than necessary for the pool envisaged . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | No formal qualifications are required for enrolment and young or old are all potential candidates ; all that is needed is a desire to learn . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What is needed is a plain , simple , and straightforward , ‘ I do forgive you . ’ |
| 23 | All that is needed is a demand from library users and an understanding of that demand by librarians . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What is needed is a leader who will set an example in worship and give some brief teaching from the scriptures . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | What is needed is a transmitter sufficiently cheap , compact and low-powered to be installed in every home . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Moreover , even if what is needed is a review of the present state of laboratory-based and clinical aspects of the new reproductive technologies , it would be more appropriate to use the resources of universities , government agencies , and professional societies for this purpose . |