Example sentences of "needs [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What Dorothy needs is a breath or two of good fresh air , ’ said Mrs Hollidaye sharply . |
| 2 | All it needs is a 2m diameter hole , which can be in the kitchen , conservatory , garage , or wherever . |
| 3 | The driver turns the engine over a couple of times ; says , ‘ What it needs is a little push . ' ’ |
| 4 | What the game really needs is a career woman — or , at least , one whose idea of a good day 's work is n't in the ballroom with Colonel Mustard and a candlestick . |
| 5 | What she needs is a hard working man who can let her blossom as a person . ’ |
| 6 | Julie , 32 , said : ‘ All he needs is a candlestick and he 's a real-life Wee Willie Winkie . |
| 7 | ‘ Now all she needs is a bit of work over a mile and a quarter on Tuesday and she 'll be ready for Longchamp . |
| 8 | ‘ All she needs is a pat on the trunk and a sticky bun , ’ he said . |
| 9 | All he needs is a little gentle guidance . |
| 10 | What Washington needs is a bit of discrimination . |
| 11 | TrueEffects is a compact package — all it needs is a mere 500Kb of hard disk space — and it works really well . |
| 12 | With elegant blue toile wallpaper , rich gilt mirrors , a Victorianstyle fireplace , and furniture made by John , all it needs is a tree , candles and trails of ivy from the garden to transform it into a very festive scene . |
| 13 | I think what we needs is a |
| 14 | Once , as Minton walked past a queue of students waiting to enter a Royal College dance , Richard Chopping heard one remark , ‘ What he needs is a good kick up the arse . ’ |
| 15 | What one needs is a way of doing the sum over histories not just for particles but for the whole fabric of space and time as well . |
| 16 | ‘ All it needs is a lack of fear . |
| 17 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 18 | The first thing that Britain needs is a new model for sector skills training . |
| 19 | All Eddie really needs is a confidant . |
| 20 | ‘ If they 're after you all it needs is a telephone call to your parents : ‘ A question about your son 's camera insurance . |
| 21 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
| 22 | What he needs is a transfusion . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What that needs is a coat of paint , ’ he said dolefully . |
| 24 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 25 | All she needs is a few weeks of expert tuition . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I suspect what Sarah Chester Fabrics needs is a very large kick up the management 's backside , and some fairly hefty streamlining of its present systems , before anyone will even contemplate healthy investment , Miss Chester . ’ |
| 27 | Labour costs per head are still 50 per cent above Scandinavian levels but are falling steadily and with work for the next two years all Govan now needs is a substantial new order before the middle of 1994 to ensure its future . |
| 28 | The last thing Sir John needs is a challenge to the death . |
| 29 | The last thing GATT needs is a stronger dose of insanity . |
| 30 | What it needs is an historian who is n't afraid to jazz things up a bit — sidestep the facts and move the goalposts . |