Example sentences of "[pron] was need be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was needed was a lead not a lecture . |
| 2 | What was needed was a much improved rail link to Southampton , backed by a tax policy that would penalize motor vehicles and favour the railways . |
| 3 | Now he proclaimed that inflation was a much more serious threat to national wellbeing than unemployment , which anyway was a greatly overestimated danger , and that what was needed was a much tighter control of the money supply and the budget deficit . |
| 4 | What was needed was for the Government to spend much more money , in a more caring fashion . |
| 5 | What was needed was a small bomb capable of blowing a hole through the wing of an aircraft and igniting the fuel in the tanks inside . |
| 6 | Eventually I decided that what was needed was a little organisation — a systematic approach to make my busy life a little less fraught . |
| 7 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 8 | What was needed was something down home and businesslike . |
| 9 | What was needed was a foraging inside-forward who could pick up passes from defence and create scoring chances for the other forwards . |
| 10 | For practitioners , what was needed was an essay that was not too long , and which attempted to develop specific proposals that they could act upon . |
| 11 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 12 | What was needed was that intention to make a legal act should be expressed ; this then had to be taken to be charged on the heir as trustee , since in that way the principle of benefit could be satisfied . |
| 13 | Nationally what was needed was not so much cash as a rational development programme with long-term perspectives . |
| 14 | What was needed was a continual flow of information regarding IBM 's product and marketing plans , which is readily available from a legion of professional IBM watchers who demand , and receive , hefty sums for analyses of future IBM strategies . |
| 15 | What was needed was for us to get together with an arbitrator . |
| 16 | ‘ What was needed was a new look at the problems and the ways in which they might be solved , both in the UK and elsewhere . |
| 17 | What was needed was a new system of dégorgement , able to cope with far greater capacity levels at a significantly higher speed than the traditional à la volèe process . |
| 18 | What was needed was ‘ to radically wipe out the major differences between towns and villages ’ in order ‘ to more powerfully homogenize our socialist society , to create a single worker people ’ . |
| 19 | However , even the smallest cylinder stocked by plumbers ' merchants was far too big for this application — what was needed was a small , neat cylinder , that would fit snugly under the wash basin unit . |
| 20 | No , she said , the damage had already been done and what was needed was a heart and lung transplant . |
| 21 | What was needed was a theory of the material conditions , including social and political relations , that inhibit the emancipation of human beings through their own actions . |
| 22 | Their newspapers existed solely to point this out , and were designed to lead readers to the inescapable conclusion that what was needed was a new political party , free from the sell-outs of the Labour Party and the trade-union leaders . |
| 23 | What was needed was the necessary stimulus . |
| 24 | The very real tragedy was in the fate of one man and what was needed was an Everyman figure who could carry the story by being charming , innocent , ordinary , and haunted and that is what the skills of Muni could give them . |
| 25 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 26 | What was needed was a dispassionate focus on the root of the problem , and this meant that the subject had to lose its normative character . |
| 27 | On the English side , what was needed was an army to fulfil two essential functions : conquest and maintenance of that conquest , requirements which demanded both field armies and garrisons . |
| 28 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 29 | What was needed was a wider distribution of the profits of industry , especially through higher wages . |
| 30 | The ‘ restructuring school ’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone ; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry ( Massey , 1979 ; Sayer , 1982 ) . |