Example sentences of "need [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All that was needed was a little encouragement , a sign that the employer was committed to good employment policies and practices for people with disabilities . |
| 32 | What was needed was a theory of the material conditions , including social and political relations , that inhibit the emancipation of human beings through their own actions . |
| 33 | ALL THAT WAS NEEDED WAS ONE FINAL PUSH |
| 34 | Their newspapers existed solely to point this out , and were designed to lead readers to the inescapable conclusion that what was needed was a new political party , free from the sell-outs of the Labour Party and the trade-union leaders . |
| 35 | With the Charter and the political precepts of the paper firmly in place , all that was needed was to drag a few journalists out of the pubs and set them to work . |
| 36 | What was needed was the necessary stimulus . |
| 37 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 38 | What Chaplin had needed was a clown whose loneliness , detachment , pathos , optimism , indestructibility , incorrigibility , and vulnerability would allow him to exploit all the humour and tragedy , love and violence that everyday life offered . |
| 39 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 40 | The very real tragedy was in the fate of one man and what was needed was an Everyman figure who could carry the story by being charming , innocent , ordinary , and haunted and that is what the skills of Muni could give them . |
| 41 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 42 | What was needed was a dispassionate focus on the root of the problem , and this meant that the subject had to lose its normative character . |
| 43 | On the English side , what was needed was an army to fulfil two essential functions : conquest and maintenance of that conquest , requirements which demanded both field armies and garrisons . |
| 44 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 45 | Perhaps , as Ho said later , all that was needed was for the French to pronounce one word : independence ; but on both sides this was the most fraught and emotional issue . |
| 46 | What was now needed was a means of countering Labour 's electoral appeal , and for this a Prime Minister with a cleaner political reputation would be needed . |
| 47 | What was needed was a wider distribution of the profits of industry , especially through higher wages . |
| 48 | The ‘ restructuring school ’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone ; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry ( Massey , 1979 ; Sayer , 1982 ) . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices . |
| 52 | All that was needed was a computer at each end of a dedicated phone line , and software to allow computer to computer communications . |
| 53 | All that was needed was to measure a certain number of coefficients of elasticity , viscosity , conductivity , etc . |
| 54 | What was needed was an easily modifiable vector format that was n't restricted to just simple curves and lines . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | What this harsh and regimented scheme urgently needed was the integration of feminine and domestic influences , setting free ‘ feminine powers into Workhouses , Hospitals , Schools , Orphanages , Lunatic Asylums , Reformatories and even Prisons ’ . |
| 57 | 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 . ’ |
| 58 | What was needed was more of the same — intensified police action backed by the ever-watchful vigilance of the purity movement . |
| 59 | In this sample — due to location — the foreign language most needed was English . |
| 60 | 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 . |