Example sentences of "needed [to-vb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideal book , he thought , for teaching would-be converts systematically what they needed to know was Augustine of Hippo 's De Rudibus Catechizandis . |
| 2 | The point was made that jobs ‘ promoted ’ were not a true count of REAL jobs ; what we needed to know was the true job completion rate effected for what length of time — actual jobs and how long they lasted . |
| 3 | His brass-faced clocks had only one hand and a calendar because , in the years before bus and train timetables and television programme times , all the Dalesmen needed to know was the hour and the day . |
| 4 | It has been assumed that all we needed to know was the effects of the variable rhythms of the language on the regularity of metre . |
| 5 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 6 | The last piece of territory he and Blanche needed to explore was one the superintendent had not yet entered deliberately , Dexter suspected : Nicola Sharpe 's drive to take over Jane Pargeter 's job . |
| 7 | What I actually needed to do was somehow to disappear . |
| 8 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 9 | All he needed to do was to collect the votes of the majority of MAs who had left the University . |
| 10 | This is where we must challenge the idea that forgiveness is a costless thing ; that all God needed to do was forgive . |
| 11 | All the left needed to do was to ensure that the next Labour government was a real alternative , and not led by another tedious old right-winger like Callaghan , who had gone back to his farm blaming the lefties . |
| 12 | All that the French needed to do was take the crossroads at Quatre Bras . |
| 13 | When all they needed to do was lift up the phone and have a quiet word . |
| 14 | Really , what we needed to do was to read through make sure that it was covered adequately but on the other hand , if they 've come across something twice and not if i , if it was in brackets I did n't count it , did you do |
| 15 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 16 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 17 | ‘ We were told what you needed to do was to start drinking in the Groucho Club , where all the critics go . ’ |
| 18 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
| 19 | Given this scenario , it became increasingly obvious that what we needed to adopt was a twofold approach to recruitment and training . |
| 20 | All you needed to join was a hefty bank balance : corporate membership was £25,000 . |