Example sentences of "was need be " in BNC.
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1 | Just how much patience was needed is made clear by a story from Elaine Blond about her friend and close colleague . |
2 | The Americans wanted their Philippines bases ; all that was needed was Marcos 's ritual invoking of the Red Menace to make everything possible . |
3 | All that was needed was for someone to take Rowland 's ascetic vision/version of soul fanaticism and commandeer it for political ends . |
4 | What was needed was a lead not a lecture . |
5 | What was needed was a much improved rail link to Southampton , backed by a tax policy that would penalize motor vehicles and favour the railways . |
6 | All that was needed was a positive reply from Mr Hussein . |
7 | Now he proclaimed that inflation was a much more serious threat to national wellbeing than unemployment , which anyway was a greatly overestimated danger , and that what was needed was a much tighter control of the money supply and the budget deficit . |
8 | What was needed was for the Government to spend much more money , in a more caring fashion . |
9 | What was needed was a small bomb capable of blowing a hole through the wing of an aircraft and igniting the fuel in the tanks inside . |
10 | Eventually I decided that what was needed was a little organisation — a systematic approach to make my busy life a little less fraught . |
11 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
12 | What was needed was something down home and businesslike . |
13 | What was needed was a foraging inside-forward who could pick up passes from defence and create scoring chances for the other forwards . |
14 | All that was needed was skill combined with imagination . |
15 | For practitioners , what was needed was an essay that was not too long , and which attempted to develop specific proposals that they could act upon . |
16 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
17 | What was needed was that intention to make a legal act should be expressed ; this then had to be taken to be charged on the heir as trustee , since in that way the principle of benefit could be satisfied . |
18 | Nationally what was needed was not so much cash as a rational development programme with long-term perspectives . |
19 | What was needed was a continual flow of information regarding IBM 's product and marketing plans , which is readily available from a legion of professional IBM watchers who demand , and receive , hefty sums for analyses of future IBM strategies . |
20 | What was needed was for us to get together with an arbitrator . |
21 | ‘ What was needed was a new look at the problems and the ways in which they might be solved , both in the UK and elsewhere . |
22 | What was needed was a new system of dégorgement , able to cope with far greater capacity levels at a significantly higher speed than the traditional à la volèe process . |
23 | What was needed was ‘ to radically wipe out the major differences between towns and villages ’ in order ‘ to more powerfully homogenize our socialist society , to create a single worker people ’ . |
24 | However , even the smallest cylinder stocked by plumbers ' merchants was far too big for this application — what was needed was a small , neat cylinder , that would fit snugly under the wash basin unit . |
25 | No , she said , the damage had already been done and what was needed was a heart and lung transplant . |
26 | All that was needed was a little encouragement , a sign that the employer was committed to good employment policies and practices for people with disabilities . |
27 | What was needed was a theory of the material conditions , including social and political relations , that inhibit the emancipation of human beings through their own actions . |
28 | ALL THAT WAS NEEDED WAS ONE FINAL PUSH |
29 | Their newspapers existed solely to point this out , and were designed to lead readers to the inescapable conclusion that what was needed was a new political party , free from the sell-outs of the Labour Party and the trade-union leaders . |
30 | With the Charter and the political precepts of the paper firmly in place , all that was needed was to drag a few journalists out of the pubs and set them to work . |