Example sentences of "needed [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he felt , obscurely , that the terrible accident needed to be given coherent thought . |
| 2 | Steve Adorable rolled in about lunchtime and he too needed to be told everything . |
| 3 | That self now needed to be discovered — but where ? |
| 4 | Soderstrom — who later in the concert jokingly apologised for her scratchiness — was obviously miserable , more miserable than she needed to be , about the quality of the sound she was making , and her misery took the form of distinguished concentration on pitch , so that there were many small uncharacteristic faults in her intonation . |
| 5 | It is understood that the Bank of England backed higher rates to protect the pound but was less convinced that they needed to be raised to cool down the economy any further . |
| 6 | There needed to be a team leader and five other lawyers . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Indeed , by the middle of that year critics were saying that the cuts imposed at the time of the IMF crisis may have been too harsh , and that fixed investment in manufacturing capacity needed to be stepped up , even though it actually rose by 8 per cent in 1978 . |
| 9 | As yet there was no great sense that the policies of welfare and social egalitarianism since 1945 needed to be reversed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Therefore he needed to be in London and could not be in Cuddesdon . |
| 12 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher , on the other hand , claimed that previous Tory leaders had agreed on the country 's problems and what needed to be done — cutting public expenditure and direct taxation , reforming the unions , and restoring the incentives and financial disciplines of the free market — but failed to carry through the policies . |
| 14 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 15 | Suddenly , overpoweringly , she needed her mother , she needed to be taken in her mother 's arms , like a little child and to be held there . |
| 16 | Maggie did not want to take her arms away from Phoebe , she needed to be held . |
| 17 | Accordingly two sets of legislation were introduced in the 1960s : the Race Relations Act , which maintained the liberal facade of the state and which , though so weak as to be almost useless in practice , had as a basis the assumption that black people were a part of the community and needed to be protected from racial prejudice : in contrast , and much more effective , were the Immigration Acts , which themselves discriminated against black workers . |
| 18 | The association wished to be involved in a major city-centre conversion but needed to be sure that the selected project would succeed . |
| 19 | In spite of his distaste for ‘ frills ’ , he saw church-going as something one did out of obedience ; something which shaped the life of prayer and reminded each individual that he or she was a ‘ member incorporate in the blessed company of all faithful people ’ ; but not something which needed to be added to , still less enjoyed as a hobby . |
| 20 | He said a study showed that the 30-year-old Aviemore Centre required ‘ more or less total renovation ’ , and that a road spur needed to be built off the A9 bypass . |
| 21 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |
| 22 | He more than anyone appreciated that if the monarchy was to survive , it needed to be updated . |
| 23 | It was not only that the industry needed propping up , but the whole film culture had to be rebuilt , and Forbes had clearly not grasped the scale of what needed to be done . |
| 24 | He needed to be sure that current arrangements were working as well as possible before the Government 's review next year of whether competition in basic telecoms should be extended beyond the two companies . |
| 25 | For Jarvefelt , opera needed to be illustrated like a children 's story-book of fables . |
| 26 | But no one needed to be afraid of a future where 17 million ‘ dynamic ’ East Germans were united with 62 million West Germans . |
| 27 | Progress needed to be more closely monitored . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I had a friend , she now manages the Eurythmics with her husband , but at that time , none of us needed to be in such luxury but none of us said no if it was offered and DeFries always observed the Noel Coward code and said , ‘ You should travel through life first class . ’ |
| 30 | McLeish glanced at the clock on Yeo 's desk and saw that he was running behind ti me , as tended to happen at this stage in an investigation when you needed to be in six places at once . |