Example sentences of "[adv] need [is] " in BNC.

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1 What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper .
2 All you basically need is one composition fixed in any material form , be it record , tape , manuscript or any other , which can be commercially exploited by the public .
3 What is badly needed is a pan-European initiative for an economically and ecologically meaningful transport system and corresponding infrastructure .
4 What is most needed is rational dialogue based on a liberal education .
5 What is most needed is a clear explanation of the particular point on which evidence is sought ; the model form includes requests for summaries of the parties ' positions and suggests that relevant documentation ( court orders , pleadings ) might be attached ; but these should be restricted to matters illuminating the particular request for evidence and should not seek to rehearse the whole case .
6 He told them to go amongst the people of the land and offer them their service , to defend Minginish instead of conquering it ; for the most earth a man ever needs is what is piled in his grave .
7 How long will he go on buying midfield players when what we still need is a centre half ?
8 All I Ever Need is You from Sonny and Cher .
9 But urgently needed is a BBC radio engineer , maybe one who has recently retired .
10 Urgently needed is the same kind of attention paid to the literature of the western country that has one of the most resilient Africanist populations in the world — a population that has always had a curiously intimate and unhingingly separate existence within the dominant one .
11 What is urgently needed is forms of education which open up resources — intellectual and material , critical and role-supporting , analytical and committed — to sustain a dialogue between people engaged in different kinds of struggle : a dialogue that respects the differences , while seeking to generalise out of practice at local level to reach an understanding of the power structures against which struggle takes place .
12 Look , what you probably need is some fresh air .
13 What they also need is a good half-hour run off the lead , daily , in a safe place , to maintain a well-balanced mind .
14 Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ?
15 Erm , well done er , the only thing that Eddie now needs is Hughie 's elocution pack and all his Christmases will have come at once .
16 Labour costs per head are still 50 per cent above Scandinavian levels but are falling steadily and with work for the next two years all Govan now needs is a substantial new order before the middle of 1994 to ensure its future .
17 What he really needs is to have some blond streaks to lift it a shade or two . ’
18 Thus , in A Taste of Honey , all Jo really needs is adequate love from a properly caring mother ; instead she has to seek the transitory solace of a passing Black sailor .
19 What the game really needs is a career woman — or , at least , one whose idea of a good day 's work is n't in the ballroom with Colonel Mustard and a candlestick .
20 Erm to me it is a thriving and very good community , and all it really needs is to look as it 's thriving .
21 All Eddie really needs is a confidant .
22 The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) .
23 This is the which is actually much further on in its decoration that most of the rooms , in fact all it really needs is some cushions and the window glass here .
24 Assuming that this meets the client 's approval , all that is now needed is to clear the finished version with the ITVA ( see page 126 ) and order and dispatch the bulk prints to the TV stations .
25 Like Bacon and Hobbes , whose forthright reactions are that what is really needed is simply the adoption of a correct method , Locke does not immediately follow this traditional course ; but he advances the more circumspect suggestion that we should first stand back and investigate our capacity for knowledge .
26 But these are just a few specific ideas ; what 's really needed is an overall plan for a cycle network linking the city centre to routes in all the main directions .
27 But Greenpeace says that what 's really needed is more action by the Government to stop pollution :
28 Dr Alderdice said : ‘ What is really needed is political leadership from the Government . ’
29 Dr Alderdice said afterwards : ‘ What is really needed is political leadership from the Government to give our people hope and a belief in democratic politics . ’
30 Players and coaches refute this , saying what is really needed is a change of direction by the directors .
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