Example sentences of "is [adv] need be " in BNC.

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1 What is most needed is rational dialogue based on a liberal education .
2 What is most needed is a clear explanation of the particular point on which evidence is sought ; the model form includes requests for summaries of the parties ' positions and suggests that relevant documentation ( court orders , pleadings ) might be attached ; but these should be restricted to matters illuminating the particular request for evidence and should not seek to rehearse the whole case .
3 What is badly needed is a pan-European initiative for an economically and ecologically meaningful transport system and corresponding infrastructure .
4 What is urgently needed is forms of education which open up resources — intellectual and material , critical and role-supporting , analytical and committed — to sustain a dialogue between people engaged in different kinds of struggle : a dialogue that respects the differences , while seeking to generalise out of practice at local level to reach an understanding of the power structures against which struggle takes place .
5 Like Bacon and Hobbes , whose forthright reactions are that what is really needed is simply the adoption of a correct method , Locke does not immediately follow this traditional course ; but he advances the more circumspect suggestion that we should first stand back and investigate our capacity for knowledge .
6 Dr Alderdice said : ‘ What is really needed is political leadership from the Government . ’
7 Dr Alderdice said afterwards : ‘ What is really needed is political leadership from the Government to give our people hope and a belief in democratic politics . ’
8 Players and coaches refute this , saying what is really needed is a change of direction by the directors .
9 What is really need is a computer that will understand your writing .
10 Assuming that this meets the client 's approval , all that is now needed is to clear the finished version with the ITVA ( see page 126 ) and order and dispatch the bulk prints to the TV stations .
11 Signposts are available , what is now needed are the stories of those who follow their direction , and accounts of their perception of the terrain covered and problems encountered .
12 What is immediately needed is that teachers should bring to bear on their day to day problems astringent intellectual scrutiny .
13 The quality of the idea , surely , is the paramount consideration : what is then needed is — at least — a sufficiently good execution to communicate the idea effectively .
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