Example sentences of "needed [prep] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public needed to be made aware that prostitutes were not ‘ soiled doves ’ , but were a class of women who were almost ‘ unsexed ’ and had lost all ‘ womanly feeling ’ , consorting with as many as ‘ eight to twelve different men in the same night ’ . |
| 2 | The teachers , however , decided that we needed to be kept busy over the long weekend and gave us lots of work to do . |
| 3 | And he felt , obscurely , that the terrible accident needed to be given coherent thought . |
| 4 | Given the turbulent nature of the city 's politics , even in good times , its well-being and contentment needed to be given careful attention and the city 's problems were being exacerbated by the continual and rapid growth of its population . |
| 5 | Yet it was clear from the outcome of the inquiry that about two-thirds of the topics which needed to be tackled involved people . |
| 6 | Good embalming needed to be promoted world-wide . |
| 7 | If he thought he could do that he needed to be put right . |