Example sentences of "it need [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the status of this piece of research in modern psychoanalysis , it needs only a cursory glance at the problem pages of women 's magazines , particularly those for an older readership , to find that this syndrome of the woman who considers herself happily married , yet is bewildered by the concept of orgasm which she herself has never experienced , is still familiar . |
| 2 | It needs only a couple of well-publicized mercy flights to the United States and appropriate patriotic breast-beating to ensure that liver transplant units spring up like desert flowers after the rain . |
| 3 | ( Since this is so filling , it needs only a small green salad to accompany it . ) |
| 4 | By 1914 it needed only a spark to start the conflagration . |
| 5 | It needed only a few moments , and a touch of magi-glue , to insert the cylinder as par of the pedestal . |
| 6 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 7 | It needed only a few palm trees and sand to complete the conventional picture of a desert island . |
| 8 | er , but it needed quite a few repairs doing to it |