Example sentences of "is need [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes all that is needed is for the smear to be repeated in 6 months or a year . |
| 2 | The style must disclose and be expressive of the moods , emotions and actions of the roles played even where few personal feelings are allowed to show , as in such ballets as Ashton 's Monotones where all that is needed is a calm , unhurried and seemingly endless weaving of the dance design in all its dimensions . |
| 3 | What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day . |
| 4 | What is needed is an active campaign to change the law to allow children , accompanied by a responsible adult , into a public house , or certain specified rooms within that public house , at specified times of the day , the rooms and times being agreed by the licensing justices following application from the licensee . |
| 5 | With a sensitive magnetometer all that is needed is a few turns of enamelled wire reasonably carefully wound onto a piece of plastic drainpipe . |
| 6 | In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube . |
| 7 | What is needed is generous help to ensure their children survive and aid systems which really are of benefit to the people . |
| 8 | But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge . |
| 9 | A major attraction of dolphin and porpoise hunting is the low operating costs - all that is needed is a harpoon and fuel for the boat . |
| 10 | What is needed is either full co-ordination , or none at all , with countries concentrating on their domestic needs . |
| 11 | What is needed is some mechanism for enforcement of the agreement , so that it would be in no one 's interest to break it . |
| 12 | Often the problems are only storms in teacups , and all that is needed is a gentle ‘ sorry ’ , a laugh , a hug , a cup of tea , and all is well . |
| 13 | The help that is needed is essentially for someone to listen , maybe repeatedly and sometimes , it seems , endlessly . |
| 14 | ‘ All I can give you at this stage is fine words when what is needed is action . |
| 15 | There is evidence particularly on the political right of a view that ‘ multiple citizenship ’ is somehow inconsistent with British citizenship , whereas what is needed is a way of combining a sense of belonging to the British , English , Welsh , Scottish or ( more problematic still ) the Northern Ireland community at the same time as feeling a sense of community with other groups . |
| 16 | What is needed is evidence that the phenomena supposed to reflect different short-term and long-term processes respond differently to various procedural manipulations . |
| 17 | What is needed is a lean , muscular , high-turnover stock presented in attractive and imaginative ways … |
| 18 | What is needed is a change in the processes of decision-making so that policies are informed from below by the people involved , who are the only ones who really know what life there is like and what people really want and are able to do . |
| 19 | No formal qualifications are required for enrolment and young or old are all potential candidates ; all that is needed is a desire to learn . |
| 20 | What is needed is an understanding of the principles that lie behind both the selection of questions to be asked , and the methods of supplying answers to them . |
| 21 | What is needed is a public examination system based outside school , which will act as an incentive , not an inhibition , to curricular reform , and will as far as is possible assess pupils accurately , without at too early a stage designating some as ‘ non-examinable ’ or beyond the educational pale . |
| 22 | Strength is not important ; what is needed is the correct technique . |
| 23 | what is needed is organisation , administration and , above all , quality leadership . |
| 24 | Just as the post-war local government system can be understood as a key element of the social-democratic consensus developed in that period , so it has been argued that ‘ what is needed is a new municipal culture ’ to fit the changed social and economic realities of the late twentieth century ( Walker , 1983 , p. 10 ) . |
| 25 | What is needed is a structure which encourages accountability and quality assurance in the service of local need . |
| 26 | Clearly , what is needed is a control structure where the plausibility checker either is allowed to say what part of a logical form it objects to , or ( more preferably , given our remarks earlier about strong and weak preferences ) is given a set of bindings for each anaphor and is allowed to weed out implausible ones . |
| 27 | What is needed is the right training and retraining and the government therefore makes available a wide range of training schemes and courses . |
| 28 | What is needed is a couple of examples to bring out the difference sharply . |
| 29 | What is needed is a transmitter sufficiently cheap , compact and low-powered to be installed in every home . |
| 30 | What is needed is an effort to build trust , tolerance , and a spirit of friendly ( or comradely ) competition , not simply a new generation of weaponry . |