Example sentences of "needed to be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For the dematerialisation shot the caption slide needed to be of the deserted landscape , ie : with the TARDIS gone .
2 Trent reached the point which he had marked but now the current was that much stronger and he needed to be at the bridge .
3 Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands .
4 Augustine 's first year expenditure needed to be between £80,000 and £90,000 .
5 The educational psychologist listened tolerantly to Mrs Singh 's comments , did not respond to them but simply repeated that Balbinder needed to be with teachers who were experienced in working with small groups .
6 It may have been the job of the think-tank to think the unthinkable , but such discussion needed to be on the basis of informed examination .
7 The finance minister , Mr Tatsuo Murayama , did not go to the G-1 meeting in Washington last week because he needed to be on hand in Tokyo in case the scandal blew up .
8 As head of Section D , he needed to be on call twenty-four hours a day and besides the normal phone had a secure line routed directly to his office .
9 She needed to be on her own .
10 She needed to be on her own .
11 Her grandmother sniffed and her mother promised to send in a note whenever she needed to be off PE .
12 It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence .
13 Therefore he needed to be in London and could not be in Cuddesdon .
14 I had a friend , she now manages the Eurythmics with her husband , but at that time , none of us needed to be in such luxury but none of us said no if it was offered and DeFries always observed the Noel Coward code and said , ‘ You should travel through life first class . ’
15 McLeish glanced at the clock on Yeo 's desk and saw that he was running behind ti me , as tended to happen at this stage in an investigation when you needed to be in six places at once .
16 Meanwhile I had to get Harry well propped so that he would n't fall forward and drown after all , and to do that I reckoned we needed to be in the corner .
17 But Vi needed to be in her own little home .
18 She rose quickly and lit the candles , all six of them which was wasteful , but she needed to be in the light for the shadows in the corners frightened her .
19 ‘ He needed to be in a docile mood after a show to be able to talk .
20 queried whether we really needed to be in it and I told him that sales wanted it and the reasons why we wanted to be in erm even the fact that it was going to k erm give us more accounting work erm whatsisname what bank is it ?
21 ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city .
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