Example sentences of "[noun] need be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1971 White Paper promised expansion here , but the building programme needed is huge and economy cuts repeatedly reduce it . |
| 2 | Even if all the aid needed is pledged , it will arrive too late . |
| 3 | But the extra investment needed is simply beyond the reach of many growers . |
| 4 | In most engineering applications the materials parameters needed are : elastic modulus , yield point , fracture strain , and so on . |
| 5 | Everything the ordinary Egyptian needed was there . |
| 6 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 7 | The number of sureties needed was in proportion to the sum borrowed , one housekeeper for £5 , two for £10 and so on . |
| 8 | He felt that the investment needed was not particularly high compared to other activities , and that there would be a good chance of staffing such a unit on a small scale . |
| 9 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |
| 10 | What Manville needed was an argument with gut-weight , real pull . |
| 11 | He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots . |
| 12 | The very last thing either community in Northern Ireland needs is Belfast City Hall writ large transferred to Stormont . |
| 13 | What Washington needs is a bit of discrimination . |
| 14 | They require very little attention — the only pruning needed is the removal of old barky wood , and of course that cut back by wind . |
| 15 | All the weight has to be used to make the tail dig in , so the posture needed is exactly that of a very bad carve gybe , ie straight front leg , leaning back and pulling the rig towards you . |
| 16 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 17 | The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ? |
| 18 | The last thing this scene needed was a non-participating spectator and I am indeed grateful for that privilege . |
| 19 | What Russia needed was revolutionary cells with roots among the people and contempt for abstract theory . |
| 20 | Brian Leith 's job was to film the political campaign of a Sarawak conservationist , when the last thing the campaign needed was Western broadcasters hanging around . |
| 21 | The equipment needed was quite elementary — padded trestles to lay the wings on , and cradles for holding them upright , small portable drilling machines and riveting guns and general metal fitting tools for one man and a woman assistant at each repair position . |
| 22 | What Hope needed was a stage , a part and an audience . |
| 23 | What small companies need is relevant advice |
| 24 | It is my belief that the nature and scale of the change needed is unprecedented . |
| 25 | The only special preparation needed is for euryalid species , the thickened skin covering the arm spines must be dissolved using bleach ( sodium hypochlorite ) or KOH . |
| 26 | The degree of fire protection needed is reduced as the distance from the boundary increases until no protection is needed ( i.e. external walls may consist entirely of unprotected area ) . |
| 27 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 28 | The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without irreparably damaging them . |
| 29 | Not only does this mean that science is handled by a senior member of the Canadian cabinet — a tax lawyer who once said that the last thing that Canada needs is more tax lawyers — but also it means that science and technology are seen as a part of the process of economic development . |
| 30 | In a memorable phrase Mr Perot suggested that what GM needed was ‘ the capitalist equivalent of Mao 's cultural revolution ’ . |