Example sentences of "they need be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consumers deprived of the information and advice they needed were quite simply at the mercy of every rogue in the marketplace . |
| 2 | ‘ She can be catty , I know that , but you made things far worse than they needed be , ’ Luke retorted . |
| 3 | All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it . |
| 4 | All they needed was water to reconstitute them and there was definitely going to be no shortage of that particular commodity . |
| 5 | ‘ They should feel angry that the help they needed was n't available . ’ |
| 6 | All they needed was a lot of practice and some supervision and correcting , and occasionally putting back on the right track when they strayed . |
| 7 | This means that plant breeders who try to create higher-yielding or disease-resistant varieties by selection or hybridisation from existing varieties can make only limited progress ; the genes they need are simply not found in the cultivated populations . |
| 8 | As in the UK , bright young people find it extra galling that some of those who are occupying the jobs they need are not nearly as bright as they . |
| 9 | The processes by which these organisations purchase the goods and services they need are radically different from those in consumer markets . |
| 10 | erm should she pack up her Saturday job , it pays around twenty pound and it will go up to about twenty five , and Sue and Will sat and talked about it and she got , she 's surprising been interviewed for the W R A F but I mean that 's not gon na be so easy these days , I mean they 're gon na take the exceptionals that they need are n't they ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What they need is a purgative period in opposition in which they have time to think once more and sort themselves out . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | What they need is ‘ rounding out and development into a coherent national system ’ . |
| 15 | Apart from the birch or the rope , depending on the gravity of their crimes , what they need is rehabilitation in a psychopathic institution ’ . |
| 16 | All they need is a patch of bright colour on their tails . |
| 17 | What they need is highly oxygenated water , hence the need for good aeration , and surface agitation . |
| 18 | Now that exhibitions are over for the season , all they need is seed and water . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Instinctively , they are good players ; what they need is exposure to international matches . |
| 22 | Children cope in different ways and it may be that the only support they need is from you . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All they need is the support of the West . |
| 29 | What they need is centralized control as if they had a single mainframe . |
| 30 | 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 ? |