Example sentences of "[noun pl] need [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What small companies need is relevant advice |
| 2 | Agreement on the actions needed is beginning to emerge from these recent meetings of politicians , administrators and scientists . |
| 3 | What most private investors need is not a summary ( which is generally less intelligible than the document it summarises ) but an explanation ; and this they will not get . |
| 4 | What the patients need is to have emotional fear and pain acknowledged and expressed through words , tears or in whatever other way they find helpful . |
| 5 | For such macro-systems , the principle that the designer produces what he thinks the users need is being replaced by the principle that the users themselves decide what they want and the professionals assist them in designing as specified by the users . |
| 6 | Even so , the idea that the only versions of the tool available for sale should be more elaborate ( and expensive ) than many users need is a restraint of trade . |
| 7 | As we have seen , the usual belief is that what teachers need is descriptions , with the implication that they need not be bothered with the theoretical ideas upon which they are based . |
| 8 | ‘ I suspect what Sarah Chester Fabrics needs is a very large kick up the management 's backside , and some fairly hefty streamlining of its present systems , before anyone will even contemplate healthy investment , Miss Chester . ’ |
| 9 | What children need is good , exciting play appropriate to their age . |
| 10 | What tomorrow 's students need is not just a mastery of subject matter , but mastery of learning . |