Example sentences of "needed to know 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 . |