Example sentences of "needed [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 2 | The fish needed to be good hardy species , compatible with one another and a pleasing range of colours . |
| 3 | This had to be done and he needed to be unconscious . |
| 4 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 5 | The association wished to be involved in a major city-centre conversion but needed to be sure that the selected project would succeed . |
| 6 | He needed to be sure that current arrangements were working as well as possible before the Government 's review next year of whether competition in basic telecoms should be extended beyond the two companies . |
| 7 | But I needed to be sure that you had not forgotten your homesite . |
| 8 | The Treasury reckons it needed to be sure of the trend . |
| 9 | With an uncertain outlook for nineteen ninety three from our point of view it 's absolutely crucial to get costs in line we had obviously done cost-cutting during the previous two years , but we really needed to be sure that if revenues were not going to increase , we should n't wait for a recovery to bail us out . |
| 10 | It was agreed that there needed to be substantial funding restored to both the Housing Executive and health service budget to improve the services they provide and to combat the ever increasing problems which are besetting our community . |
| 11 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 12 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 13 | She said you needed to be uninvolved . |
| 14 | If one was to look forward to work , it needed to be stimulating and enjoyable , but precisely what was meant by this could not quite be imagined . |
| 15 | From 1742 Methodist societies were organized into ‘ classes ’ of 8–10 persons , each with a leader , based on Wesley 's conviction that spiritual oversight needed to be intimate and personal . |
| 16 | He needed to be one hundred per cent fit and alert when all this was over . |
| 17 | Sergei and Masha came to my room and I opened a bottle of mineral water : we all felt we needed to be abstemious . |
| 18 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 19 | Third , to preserve all this , Libya needed to be strong : they needed an army of a million men , and … |
| 20 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 21 | It needed to be bigger , for it was widely used as a plough ox on the very heavy , stiff clays of the Sussex Weald and in its more distant past it played a valuable role in the Sussex iron industry by hauling hefty loads of timber and metal . |
| 22 | The Teacher Placement Service was a DTI initiative but the service needed to encourage local ownership and , therefore , needed to be flexible in its approach to each of the teacher placement organisers working in any particular area . |
| 23 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 24 | They needed to be able to relate their new education to their own experiences of life . |
| 25 | At the very least , in face of the hardships of peasant life under an alien and demanding regime , the Romanian peasant needed to be able to rely absolutely on his clan , the network of extended family relations , bound by blood and mutual obligations . |
| 26 | The point is that Morgenthau needed to be able to define the terms ‘ objectively ’ ; otherwise there was no way in which the power-politics model could be applied . |
| 27 | Only 5ft 4in ( 1.6m ) tall , Mary needed to be able to reach all the important controls from the steering cockpit . |
| 28 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 29 | They needed to be able to respond to local requests for specific training from individual boards . |
| 30 | While the nuclear power of the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) would always be dwarfed by that of the United States , Britain needed to be able to strike at Soviet targets of prime importance to herself . |