Example sentences of "[Wh pn] need to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is a loser , who needs to be a winner . |
| 2 | She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot . |
| 3 | The patient referred to here is one who needs to be connected to a ventilator to cope with a crisis or emergency . |
| 4 | ‘ Control is exercised by the chairman of the establishment committee who needs to be convinced of the value of each and every application ’ … |
| 5 | Who needs to be told that ‘ partnership and cooperation could prove to be the watchwords for the 1990s ’ ? |
| 6 | ‘ Cantona is a sensitive man who needs to be told he is doing well , even if he can do better . |
| 7 | It is a matter of seeing the enemy as a human being created by God and who needs to be transformed and not destroyed . |
| 8 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 9 | The Area Sec has the right to relate directly to Waterloo , but how does this relate to the role of Nat Sec who needs to be informed ? |
| 10 | Some of the combinations seem to go together automatically — e.g. the apprentice will be low status , somebody who needs to be taught — but often it 's useful to think beyond the obvious . |
| 11 | Identifying trainees is all about finding out who needs to be trained and what they need to know and if you remember one of ject objectives we had for the course is , was to , so that by the end of the course you will actually develop a system by identifying the trainees because this is sort of hit or miss . |
| 12 | We do the first bit who needs to be trained what do they need to know is the second |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 16 | The Gentile world was full of gods , local regional deities for the most part , who needed to be placated with sacrifices to ensure good crops , fertile spouses , successful commercial ventures , or even military victory for the emperor 's army . |
| 17 | Thus Adalbert 's monastic background , so far in geographical distance from the Slav missions ( but not on that account far from people who needed to be taught the basics of Christianity ) , shows pastoral awareness . |
| 18 | Marcus had said she was a ‘ wild thing ’ who needed to be ‘ looked after ’ . |
| 19 | He was shrewd enough to appreciate that here was someone who needed to be coaxed , not coerced . |
| 20 | Since a great proportion of them were engaged in growing corn and other basic needs of life , there must already have been a considerable proportion of the European population who needed to be fed by the labour of others . |
| 21 | Booking clinics were not geared to the needs of deaf mothers , who needed to be greeted and dealt with individually . |
| 22 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 23 | Once policy had been hammered out — and sometimes before it had — there were also a whole series of committees with representatives from the regions who needed to be consulted and informed on the views of headquarters . |
| 24 | It was the young who needed to be protected , and this realisation could be , and was , used both to justify limited reform and to resist it . |
| 25 | But it was not only the women of England , with their crinolined frailties , who needed to be shielded from the details . |
| 26 | Rohmer began to make shushing noises as if Gilbert was a child who needed to be restrained for sleep . |
| 27 | The Local Government Act , 1972 , allowed local authorities to choose between district auditors and private auditors ( who needed to be approved by the secretary of state ) but the Local Government Finance Act , 1982 , removed an authority 's right to choose its own auditor . |
| 28 | It is interesting to ask whether the qualities Spenser conferred on the Irish , making them the hostile outsiders who needed to be suppressed but who his texts acknowledge to be also a lurking part of the civilised English , are still part of current English imaginative experience . |
| 29 | The final entrance was that of a huddled figure who needed to be carried into the room . |
| 30 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |