Example sentences of "needs to be [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With average British fields , this needs to be at least one field length back from the boundary . |
| 2 | The standing part of the net needs to be at least 2 feet 6 inches ( 75 centimetres ) high off the ground and here too the net needs to be slack , not taut . |
| 3 | Yes , do n't think we were n't watching you … measurable weight loss needs to be at least in the region of 2 lb a week in order to provide that reward so essential to sustained effort . |
| 4 | With less money but far more visitors , it needs to be at least as imaginative as its New York cousin . |
| 5 | The server needs to be at least an 80386 machine running MS-DOS 4.0 up , any version of OS/2 from 1.3 up , Microsoft LAN Manager 2.0 or 2.1 or Manager Services for Macintosh 1.0 ; Novell NetWare NFS 1.1 , ODI-compliant network adaptor ( Token-Ring or Ethernet ) . |
| 6 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 7 | Unused global pages ( 140 in this example ) needs to be at least 178 . |
| 8 | The ice needs to be at least 2in thick ; the hole only needs to be a couple of inches wide . |