Example sentences of "[Wh det] was need be " in BNC.

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31 This was the basic reason for Britain 's poor investment record and profitability , and what was needed was the release of resources from the unproductive areas in order to rebuild the productive base .
32 What was needed was the kind of laws and regulations , and tax structure , that would make the market society work , or allow it to work , and the kind of state services — defence , and even military expansion , education , sanitation , and various sorts of assistance to industry , such as tariffs and grants for railway development that were thought necessary to make the system run efficiently and profitably .
33 What was needed was an easily modifiable vector format that was n't restricted to just simple curves and lines .
34 Berwicke like many leading women repealers , found the work disturbing and felt that what was needed was a revival of the repealers ' message of anti-statism and personal liberty .
35 She warned fellow women workers that it was useless to address workingmen with ‘ plain commonplaces ’ ; what was needed was vivid and dramatic language : ‘ the men want strong meat , thoughts as racy as their own expressions ; they reject sweet pap fit for children . ’
36 What was needed was more of the same — intensified police action backed by the ever-watchful vigilance of the purity movement .
37 At the beginning of the 1980s a group of community activists , trade unionists , community educators , peace workers and feminists met and agreed that what was needed was a reappraisal of previous efforts in the field , a conscious effort to determine their own social and political position and to choose an educational model or approach which reflected the latter .
38 This made for a softer , more innocent and ingenuous ‘ Dora ’ , but perhaps what was needed was a slightly sharper , more bristly Dora with a hidden vulnerability , which came more naturally when I gave her a North London accent …
39 And , having provided a generally pessimistic account of the evacuee children 's condition , Our Towns drew the conclusion that what was needed was primarily a reform of the education system that would ‘ lay the foundations for community life and expose the schools to the pressure of middle-class standards and requirements ’ , with an emphasis on ‘ training for future wives ’ .
40 What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king .
41 What was needed was a complete abolition of development charges .
42 He told the Centre for Economic Policy Research that what was needed was an in-depth comparison of the costs of cleaning up emissions on the one hand with the economic benefits on the other .
43 What was needed was a guarantee that extra care would be taken not to lose the film .
44 The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure .
45 At the same time , the Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said again in a B B C interview there would be no unilateral cease-fire by the I R A. And what was needed was total demilitarization .
46 Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection .
47 ‘ We do not need a peace envoy , thank you very much , ’ Sir Patrick said , before going on to emphasise that what was needed was a settlement from the current all-party talks process .
48 What was needed was a good control system which would tell them where in the organization the problem lay so they could tackle it at source .
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