Example sentences of "[noun pl] need be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most engineering applications the materials parameters needed are : elastic modulus , yield point , fracture strain , and so on . |
| 2 | The number of sureties needed was in proportion to the sum borrowed , one housekeeper for £5 , two for £10 and so on . |
| 3 | What small companies need is relevant advice |
| 4 | The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without irreparably damaging them . |
| 5 | All that dealers needed was the ability to persist after the phone had been slammed down on them . |
| 6 | Agreement on the actions needed is beginning to emerge from these recent meetings of politicians , administrators and scientists . |
| 7 | The objective having been agreed , suggestions for actions to achieve it and the resources needed are discussed . |
| 8 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Other items needed are : some plastic sandwich bags ( with wire-ties ) ; a roll of brown or black paper , smooth and glossy on one side at least ; a desk-lamp with a 25 watt bulb ; sticky tape ( Sellotape ) ; a small jar ; materials for making the support for the funnel ( see over ) ; some paper tissues ; a trowel ; a medium-sized water-colour paint-brush ; a hand-lens . |
| 11 | The essential details needed are farm holding number , business location , fields and their sizes , what is in them and which schemes the farmer is applying for . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The only raw materials needed are carbon monoxide and methanol . |
| 14 | The only raw materials needed are carbon monoxide and methanol . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Topside component layout , details of underside track breaks and inter-strip links needed are shown in Fig. 2 . |
| 20 | WHAT WE ‘ post ’ feminists need are more men like Tony who are prepared to stand up in their men 's self-help groups — instead of wasting space on the semen-stained women 's page — and acknowledge together that they are basically ‘ sacks of scum ’ . |
| 21 | What children need is good , exciting play appropriate to their age . |
| 22 | The skills pupils need are the strategies of problem solving ; interpreting mathematical forms and statements ; representing situations mathematically . |
| 23 | What tomorrow 's students need is not just a mastery of subject matter , but mastery of learning . |
| 24 | By a similar route , also taking into account product choice , equipment types needed are identified . |
| 25 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 26 | Poor roads means that machinery , tools and other inputs which the settlers need are often not getting through . |