Example sentences of "been need for " in BNC.

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1 A motorway connecting Oxford ( and thus London ) to Birmingham and the Midlands road network had been needed for at least two decades .
2 There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades !
3 He wrote to Hanns about the time when wigs had been needed for Dulcie 's ballet Fête galante , and one of the part-time dancers in the Ballet Club , a hairdresser by trade , offered to make them , from papier-mâché .
4 Strong central control would have been needed for their successful operation on the scale archaeologists envisage .
5 A new owner , or his agent , may have found too many properties to maintain , at the same time new premises would have been needed for managers in a central or more convenient position relative to the estate , or within reach of an important market .
6 Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time .
7 No , a peasant 's hovel would n't have such a thing , but surely a fire would have been needed for cooking ?
8 The two ladies in attendance on the Queen had been banished to a corner of the solar , where they sat talking quietly , half hidden by a carved wooden screen , but only the slightest effort would have been needed for either of them to overhear the interrogation going on by the fireplace .
9 The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " .
10 replied that more precise analysis was now taking place and that more information had been needed for the audit .
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