Example sentences of "needed [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's needed is a little thought — and a little heart . |
| 2 | Sometimes all that is needed is for the smear to be repeated in 6 months or a year . |
| 3 | The style must disclose and be expressive of the moods , emotions and actions of the roles played even where few personal feelings are allowed to show , as in such ballets as Ashton 's Monotones where all that is needed is a calm , unhurried and seemingly endless weaving of the dance design in all its dimensions . |
| 4 | What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day . |
| 5 | What is needed is an active campaign to change the law to allow children , accompanied by a responsible adult , into a public house , or certain specified rooms within that public house , at specified times of the day , the rooms and times being agreed by the licensing justices following application from the licensee . |
| 6 | The size of barrier needed is set against the need to maintain volumes . |
| 7 | With a sensitive magnetometer all that is needed is a few turns of enamelled wire reasonably carefully wound onto a piece of plastic drainpipe . |
| 8 | In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube . |
| 9 | They would go to an Indian or Pakistani shop , since the sort of cloth needed is not easily available in ordinary department stores . |
| 10 | What is needed is generous help to ensure their children survive and aid systems which really are of benefit to the people . |
| 11 | But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge . |
| 12 | Agreement on the actions needed is beginning to emerge from these recent meetings of politicians , administrators and scientists . |
| 13 | It is my belief that the nature and scale of the change needed is unprecedented . |
| 14 | A major attraction of dolphin and porpoise hunting is the low operating costs - all that is needed is a harpoon and fuel for the boat . |
| 15 | What is needed is either full co-ordination , or none at all , with countries concentrating on their domestic needs . |
| 16 | What is needed is some mechanism for enforcement of the agreement , so that it would be in no one 's interest to break it . |
| 17 | Like Bacon and Hobbes , whose forthright reactions are that what is really needed is simply the adoption of a correct method , Locke does not immediately follow this traditional course ; but he advances the more circumspect suggestion that we should first stand back and investigate our capacity for knowledge . |
| 18 | Often the problems are only storms in teacups , and all that is needed is a gentle ‘ sorry ’ , a laugh , a hug , a cup of tea , and all is well . |
| 19 | The help that is needed is essentially for someone to listen , maybe repeatedly and sometimes , it seems , endlessly . |
| 20 | But one insider who believes more radical changes will be needed is the erstwhile engineering director , Michael Dunn , who resigned this week to join an engineering consultancy group . |
| 21 | ‘ All I can give you at this stage is fine words when what is needed is action . |
| 22 | Even if all the aid needed is pledged , it will arrive too late . |
| 23 | There is evidence particularly on the political right of a view that ‘ multiple citizenship ’ is somehow inconsistent with British citizenship , whereas what is needed is a way of combining a sense of belonging to the British , English , Welsh , Scottish or ( more problematic still ) the Northern Ireland community at the same time as feeling a sense of community with other groups . |
| 24 | What is needed is evidence that the phenomena supposed to reflect different short-term and long-term processes respond differently to various procedural manipulations . |
| 25 | All that 's needed is a little time and a box of index cards with dividers . |
| 26 | What is needed is a lean , muscular , high-turnover stock presented in attractive and imaginative ways … |
| 27 | What is needed is a change in the processes of decision-making so that policies are informed from below by the people involved , who are the only ones who really know what life there is like and what people really want and are able to do . |
| 28 | No formal qualifications are required for enrolment and young or old are all potential candidates ; all that is needed is a desire to learn . |
| 29 | Ultimately , however , what may be needed is a set of proper procedural guides and guarantees which would ensure that whatever the legal rules may be , they are observed in practice 66 |
| 30 | What is needed is an understanding of the principles that lie behind both the selection of questions to be asked , and the methods of supplying answers to them . |