Example sentences of "needed to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence from all over the world suggests that women have all the gifts needed to be effective and caring priests : to bring the love of Christ to those who do not know him and to be enablers of others . |
| 2 | For rectification to be applicable , there needed to be some prior agreement between the parties , the agreement still needed to be effective when the instrument ( ie the s 54 agreement ) was effected , and the instrument should have failed because of a mistake . |
| 3 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 4 | But when the doctor , the vicar and Gabriel arrived , and she no longer needed to be strong , her self-control finally broke , and she became very ill . |
| 5 | The principal questions that the Chiefs of Staff Committee addressed were whether long-range missiles would eventually replace the bomber as the delivery system ; and if so , whether , in the meantime , the last generations of bombers needed to be supersonic or not . |
| 6 | The aristocracy , for its part , has never needed to be convinced of the importance of not working . |
| 7 | At first , Ceauşescu seemed to accept the solution but still needed to be convinced of the details of the route . |
| 8 | There was a firm belief among old-time ferreters that the ferrets needed to be vicious and half-starved to do their work well . |
| 9 | Guidance was given on the government and academic organization of polytechnics : the system of government needed to be suitable for institutions serving national as well as regional and local needs , and to be attractive to staff who would be able to ‘ share fully in their government and management as academic communities ’ . |
| 10 | She said she thought the parents needed to be clear about what limits they felt they had to place on Pamela 's behaviour . |
| 11 | It had become clear that this also needed to be educational activity , with a high profile for curriculum and the quality of student experiences , with any material gain for the school being a bonus rather than raison d'etre . |
| 12 | In particular the new ‘ light ’ industry regions no longer needed to be near to coal . |
| 13 | So whilst superuser still resides in Unix , it is no longer needed to be able to perform system administration , for example . |
| 14 | The two sets of characters needed to be able to confide in one another . |
| 15 | Yet even in these cases the situation could be an awkward one : senior partners needed both credibility and backing from the head ; they also needed tact and skill in the development enterprise , and such attributes are not an automatic concomitant of experience ; and client teachers needed to be able to accept that their practice needed such attention . |
| 16 | Fourthly , a mathematical model is needed to be able to calculate air pollution levels from an emission inventory of an area under varying meteorological conditions and to predict air pollution levels arising from proposed changes to emissions in an area . |
| 17 | There was an increase in the price of goods that the Third World imported , more exports , therefore , were needed to be able to afford the same amount of imports . |
| 18 | Plenty of dual instruction is needed to be safe , and then it requires constant practice on high approaches to be able to sideslip effectively . |
| 19 | Movies only needed to be social when the plot demanded it , and even if some kind of political crisis had to be depicted in a particular story then the attitude or position adopted by the movie would be less important to audiences than the logic of the plot . |
| 20 | But Charlotte would have needed to be alone with him , decks cleared of their differences , for certainty on the point . |