Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Everything the ordinary Egyptian needed was there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They require very little attention — the only pruning needed is the removal of old barky wood , and of course that cut back by wind . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 11 | 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 " ? |
| 12 | The last thing this scene needed was a non-participating spectator and I am indeed grateful for that privilege . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is my belief that the nature and scale of the change needed is unprecedented . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 20 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 21 | ( The cocktail stick is used to ensure that only the amount of colour needed is applied — it is easy to overdo it . |
| 22 | Its failure to provide the counselling and support needed was unfair to her and her parents . |
| 23 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 24 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 25 | The size of barrier needed is set against the need to maintain volumes . |
| 26 | While professional advisers can , and do , work towards ‘ once only ’ savings such as changes in the prescribing of generic drugs , the real control needed is the introduction of new products only after assessment of the health gain and financial consequences . |
| 27 | ‘ People are entitled to be angry — the cynical deceit of the Tory election campaign , the easy promise that all the economy needed was the reassurance of a Tory victory , all now exposed in the harsh light of the real world . ’ |
| 28 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |
| 29 | Margaret Thatcher had created a ‘ supermarket society ’ where the only thing a society needed was a credit card and the only freedoms that mattered were those that could be bought . |
| 30 | The analysis needed is the same as that used to walk in a square . |