Example sentences of "they need [is] " in BNC.

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1 All they need is a warm corner , a nice bit of sun , careful feeding — that 's splendid pig manure we put in — and plenty of interest .
2 What they need is a purgative period in opposition in which they have time to think once more and sort themselves out . ’
3 ‘ What they need is a clock with a bomb attached to it , not a radio , ’ says Vic , patting his pockets , checking for wallet , diary , keyring , calculator , cigarettes and lighter .
4 What they need is ‘ rounding out and development into a coherent national system ’ .
5 Apart from the birch or the rope , depending on the gravity of their crimes , what they need is rehabilitation in a psychopathic institution ’ .
6 All they need is a patch of bright colour on their tails .
7 What they need is highly oxygenated water , hence the need for good aeration , and surface agitation .
8 Now that exhibitions are over for the season , all they need is seed and water .
9 The one thing they need is water , and if they find a damp surface in the home they will germinate and grow there quite happily over a wide range of temperatures , especially if the relative humidity of the air is above 70% for long periods .
10 It 's basic but effective , and all they need is a little more spontaneous combustion on stage and the barricades of bed-sit land will have been stormed .
11 Instinctively , they are good players ; what they need is exposure to international matches .
12 Children cope in different ways and it may be that the only support they need is from you .
13 In Hewlett-Packard 's view , ‘ users do n't give a damn about the kernel anyway , what they need is application programming interfaces , ’ says European computer systems marketing manager Bernard Guidon .
14 The National Council for One-Parent Families is , understandably , concerned about the number of one-parent family children who go into substitute care , arguing that they are more vulnerable to separation because the help they need is often withheld .
15 What they need is not a man to take care of them , but a new kind of working-class politics that would take care of them and take care of the radicalism of their case .
16 Teachers of mother tongue students might argue that their students already have oral and communicative skills , that what they need is to learn and demonstrate literacy , that putting full stops in the right place and writing grammatical sentences is a sign of this literacy .
17 But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints .
18 All they need is the support of the West .
19 What they need is centralized control as if they had a single mainframe .
20 Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ?
21 All they need is a repeat performance of Owen Pickard winner , when they meet Darlington again tomorrow .
22 Asylum Aid , which represents immigrants who 're seeking refuge in Britain , says the last thing they need is to spend more time behind bars .
23 What they need is some success in the FA Cup to restore some pride .
24 All they need is the bed .
25 All they need is the bed .
26 You know you used to , All they need is the bed .
27 everything they need is on the result table over there
28 All they need is a , a lick of polish .
29 What they need is certain products .
30 And I un well as I understand it from , from , from the friends in Moscow their , their traditional industries are very archaic , they may have erm , the expertise in , in the armament section , but the other things , what they need is some of our engineers and we 've got a lot of engineers who were working overseas and at the moment are n't .
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