Example sentences of "[noun prp] need be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 2 | What Manville needed was an argument with gut-weight , real pull . |
| 3 | The very last thing either community in Northern Ireland needs is Belfast City Hall writ large transferred to Stormont . |
| 4 | What Washington needs is a bit of discrimination . |
| 5 | What Russia needed was revolutionary cells with roots among the people and contempt for abstract theory . |
| 6 | What Hope needed was a stage , a part and an audience . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In a memorable phrase Mr Perot suggested that what GM needed was ‘ the capitalist equivalent of Mao 's cultural revolution ’ . |
| 9 | What Cliff needed was encouragement and affection . |
| 10 | What Fleischmann and Pons needed was their own proof of the neutrons and Harwell was well equipped with the necessary measuring instruments . |
| 11 | What the deaf people of Liverpool needed was their own building , so in 1876 , Healey started a building fund for a new institute . |
| 12 | The last thing South Africa needed was for tourists , especially British tourists , to be murdered on the beaches . |
| 13 | I 've tried to tell him that the last thing Project Eden needs is an Administrator who 's crazy as a dakkabug , but will he listen to me ? ’ |
| 14 | The first thing that Britain needs is a new model for sector skills training . |
| 15 | But he repeated that what Iran needed was " an honest first-class Army with a decent standard of living . |
| 16 | I think you 'll find all Guy needs is the right woman . ’ |
| 17 | The last thing GATT needs is a stronger dose of insanity . |
| 18 | ‘ What Dorothy needs is a breath or two of good fresh air , ’ said Mrs Hollidaye sharply . |
| 19 | What Paul needs is this little girl who does n't care whether a man 's a bit boring . |
| 20 | Some people felt that what West Belfast needs is the development of an industrial base rather than the current proliferation of shopping centres . |
| 21 | The last thing Sir John needs is a challenge to the death . |
| 22 | The injustice of life stung her bitterly — Sylvester getting them Bones and co as if they were straight out of the champions ' parade at the Horse of the Year Show and not even knowing that some horses jumped and some did n't , and thinking that all weedy little Hoomey needed was motivation to become Seb Coe the second … |
| 23 | What Anselm needed was not an intimate friendship , but an understanding of an external aim which he was bound to support . |