Example sentences of "needed be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She can be catty , I know that , but you made things far worse than they needed be , ’ Luke retorted .
2 It was strange not being able to communicate but someone who could speak English was always on hand to translate and often all I needed were those wonderful smiles and greetings from people .
3 What he needed were sticks , thick ones .
4 Consumers deprived of the information and advice they needed were quite simply at the mercy of every rogue in the marketplace .
5 He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots .
6 Yet , it is claimed , all that he really needed were attributes , or more accurately , qualities .
7 What I needed were points on the line which exist rather than those which are only theoretical .
8 As the kettle began to boil , she realised that the mugs she needed were stowed beneath the sink .
9 The self-supporting peasant was transformed into a spender of money , for all the things he needed were now in the shops .
10 Right , well that 's good well that 's what we needed were n't it something like that ?
11 What I needed was a solid holder that would n't let pencils bend or break , and a retainer that would expand and contract a million times .
12 Margaret Thatcher had created a ‘ supermarket society ’ where the only thing a society needed was a credit card and the only freedoms that mattered were those that could be bought .
13 In a memorable phrase Mr Perot suggested that what GM needed was ‘ the capitalist equivalent of Mao 's cultural revolution ’ .
14 He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people .
15 All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that .
16 All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction .
17 All we needed was a red flag to warn the locals that we might be about to frighten the horses .
18 A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy ‘ the most beautiful dress in New York ’ , telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband .
19 If you put young people to work digging ditches , the argument ran , you were keeping other people out of employment ; and what young people needed was not bogus work but real jobs .
20 All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it .
21 What you needed was a Gofer : someone who had nothing else to do but look after you and your team .
22 Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's .
23 What I needed was totally impartial advice .
24 He cast Nicholson in the lead role and all he needed was a female .
25 More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line .
26 Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die .
27 What he needed was a bit of luck on the roll .
28 He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere .
29 All it needed was someone to go looking for the jack , find their hands curling round them and start asking why …
30 What I needed was a board to go with it .
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