Example sentences of "needed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plenty of dual instruction is needed to be safe , and then it requires constant practice on high approaches to be able to sideslip effectively . |
| 2 | This extract is useful in order to illustrate how the field-worker , on the one policeman 's own admission , both needed to be tested and was successful in passing . |
| 3 | Cuckney does not believe that the qualities needed to be an effective chairman of a financial institution such as 3i ( Investors in Industry ) are that different to those required to oversee a manufacturing company . |
| 4 | He was very clear in his mind , however , about what steps needed to be taken to make the company fit for the private sector . |
| 5 | The aristocracy , for its part , has never needed to be convinced of the importance of not working . |
| 6 | The impression of protection given by the chassis is backed up by tireless brakes , which despite the huge weight needed to be slowed , dealt with our fade test with ease . |
| 7 | In my earliest years at Magdalen I inhabited a world where hardly anything I wanted to know needed to be found out by my own unaided efforts . |
| 8 | Rents needed to be brought up to a realistic level , housing stock modernized , particularly in some of the rundown areas of Kennington , and surplus sold off , without souring relations with his tenants . |
| 9 | The principal questions that the Chiefs of Staff Committee addressed were whether long-range missiles would eventually replace the bomber as the delivery system ; and if so , whether , in the meantime , the last generations of bombers needed to be supersonic or not . |
| 10 | This situation went against the grain , as the top brass always needed to be on top of every situation and on top of every executive if they were to do their jobs to their own satisfaction ; not necessarily in the best interests of the Corporation , that is to say , but in their own best interests . |
| 11 | Charles felt something more needed to be said . |
| 12 | Sadie would raid the bins for scraps when she could — perhaps her diet of rabbits needed to be supplemented . |
| 13 | She had swooned in the main hall and had needed to be helped to the headmaster 's office and given water to drink and a damp cloth to cool her brow . |
| 14 | Quincx had insisted on telling both of them the details of Zambia 's difficulties , despite protests from Tammuz , feeling both women needed to be given a reason for the delay in Ari 's treatment . |
| 15 | If music were important then choirs needed to be improved ; in Gloucestershire a Nonconformist United Choirs Union was formed in 1892 and music festivals were held in Gloucester in 1892 and 1894 . |
| 16 | Tottenham travel to Notts County tomorrow seeking one of the two wins Mr Shreeves thinks will be needed to be absolutely safe from relegation . |
| 17 | Mr Andrew Palmer , the editor , said ‘ establishing eye-contact ’ with waiting customers was just one of the qualities needed to be a success behind the bar . |
| 18 | Second , that to carry out this task the teams needed to be protected from the everyday pressures of casework . |
| 19 | But much more needed to be done if the CEGB 's post-Sizewell tide of optimism was to be turned . |
| 20 | Old habits and traditions die hard and work will be needed to be undertaken to convince some parents that they now have a tree choice of school . |
| 21 | Earthquake engineers may not have needed to be reminded that building design can make all the difference between life and death , but the Californian quake has increased public interest in earthquake-resistant designs . |
| 22 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 23 | Streamlining implied speed and , in increasingly acute competition with road transport , the railways ' commitment to superior speed needed to be stressed constantly . |
| 24 | The arrangements needed to be further refined after 1944 , and the number of direct-grant schools fell from 232 in 1943 to 164 in 1952 . |
| 25 | There was , and perhaps needed to be , very little variation from an understood pattern — which nobody needed to prescribe , simply because everybody agreed on what it should be . |
| 26 | The development , not always as carefully planned as it might have been , of two sets of responsibilities — pastoral and academic — obviously needed to be integrated if confusion and conflict were to be avoided . |
| 27 | Evidence from all over the world suggests that women have all the gifts needed to be effective and caring priests : to bring the love of Christ to those who do not know him and to be enablers of others . |
| 28 | In addition , of course , the cattle needed to be suited to the climate . |
| 29 | The linking midfield role still needed to be filled . |
| 30 | ‘ I could think of individual old people who were inappropriately placed in long-stay settings , or who were creating excessive stresses at home on relatives … and I could see that something more substantial in the community needed to be provided . |