Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] need for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replacements were also needed for wing-halves Jones and John , and Chapman opened negotiations for Bradford 's Jack Crayston , a long-throw expert , smart dresser and fitness fanatic , and for ex-miner Wilt Copping of Leeds United . |
| 2 | More probation hostels were urgently needed for young persons , and hostels should be provided for adult offenders who required strict supervision . |
| 3 | We had not the experts in Burmese poetry who were really needed for this task , only a handful of hymns in the true Burmese style were available , and these had been composed earlier by Father Jackson . |
| 4 | Sue Sadler of CPC explained that clothes for four to 16-year-olds were now needed for the bank along with good quality toys and nursery items such as stair gates , pushchairs , cots and prams etc . |
| 5 | Aid was especially needed for stabilization funds to bolster the convertibility of the three planned currencies . |
| 6 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the list of ingredients did n't include the egg which was later needed for the mixture and we are sorry if anyone has been disappointed when trying to make the scones . |
| 8 | It could not be taken along with poor relief , and those with criminal records were excluded ; it was only available at seventy , not sixty ; and it was set at a very mean level , a mere five shillings , below the bare minimum which Seebohm Rowntree calculated was then needed for subsistence . |
| 9 | Immediate care was then needed for Mrs J. When the social worker first interviewed Mrs J. she presented as a tall active upright person , totally deaf , who railed about her dead daughter-in-law , to the great distress of the son . |