Example sentences of "is need be a " in BNC.

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1 The style must disclose and be expressive of the moods , emotions and actions of the roles played even where few personal feelings are allowed to show , as in such ballets as Ashton 's Monotones where all that is needed is a calm , unhurried and seemingly endless weaving of the dance design in all its dimensions .
2 What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day .
3 With a sensitive magnetometer all that is needed is a few turns of enamelled wire reasonably carefully wound onto a piece of plastic drainpipe .
4 But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge .
5 A major attraction of dolphin and porpoise hunting is the low operating costs - all that is needed is a harpoon and fuel for the boat .
6 Often the problems are only storms in teacups , and all that is needed is a gentle ‘ sorry ’ , a laugh , a hug , a cup of tea , and all is well .
7 There is evidence particularly on the political right of a view that ‘ multiple citizenship ’ is somehow inconsistent with British citizenship , whereas what is needed is a way of combining a sense of belonging to the British , English , Welsh , Scottish or ( more problematic still ) the Northern Ireland community at the same time as feeling a sense of community with other groups .
8 What is needed is a lean , muscular , high-turnover stock presented in attractive and imaginative ways …
9 What is needed is a change in the processes of decision-making so that policies are informed from below by the people involved , who are the only ones who really know what life there is like and what people really want and are able to do .
10 No formal qualifications are required for enrolment and young or old are all potential candidates ; all that is needed is a desire to learn .
11 What is needed is a public examination system based outside school , which will act as an incentive , not an inhibition , to curricular reform , and will as far as is possible assess pupils accurately , without at too early a stage designating some as ‘ non-examinable ’ or beyond the educational pale .
12 Just as the post-war local government system can be understood as a key element of the social-democratic consensus developed in that period , so it has been argued that ‘ what is needed is a new municipal culture ’ to fit the changed social and economic realities of the late twentieth century ( Walker , 1983 , p. 10 ) .
13 What is needed is a structure which encourages accountability and quality assurance in the service of local need .
14 Clearly , what is needed is a control structure where the plausibility checker either is allowed to say what part of a logical form it objects to , or ( more preferably , given our remarks earlier about strong and weak preferences ) is given a set of bindings for each anaphor and is allowed to weed out implausible ones .
15 What is needed is a couple of examples to bring out the difference sharply .
16 What is needed is a transmitter sufficiently cheap , compact and low-powered to be installed in every home .
17 We believe that what is needed is a systematic way of evaluating both the positive contribution made by the presence of an airfield as well as the adverse impact involved .
18 What is needed is a plain , simple , and straightforward , ‘ I do forgive you . ’
19 What is needed is a leader who will set an example in worship and give some brief teaching from the scriptures .
20 All that is needed is a cushion and a blindfold .
21 What is needed is a positive Lib-Lab programme with common candidates starting in local and by-elections .
22 Rose had been present in the audience at the press conference and afterwards commented to Taylor that ‘ What is needed is a detector of neutrons that has good energy resolution and is very efficient ’ ( so as to be able to determine a distribution of energies of the neutrons and determine whether they were being produced uniformly in all directions — as in thermonuclear fusion from a static plasma — or instead were on the average moving in some particular direction ) .
23 What is needed is a policy that protects access but saves the environment , that allows sensitive development in the interests of the residents but prevents exploitation .
24 After an initial recommended strength spray , all that is needed is a ‘ topping up ’ spray every three or four weeks .
25 What is needed is a mechanism for ensuring that policy is carried out , rather than obstructed ; and that those entrusted with promoting policy actively identify with it .
26 What is needed is a period of steady law-making on the back of the economic recovery now unfolding .
27 This could be due either to the failure of these methods to elevate Ca 2+ in the appropriate manner ( presumably what is needed is a large transient within spines ) or to the need for additional pre- and/or postsynaptic signals .
28 The trouble with [ a view that what is needed is a re-evaluation of the feminine ] is that it still leaves uncriticised the whole association of particular qualities with the masculine and others with the feminine …
29 Rather , what is needed is a critique of the polarisation of masculine and feminine qualities , and in particular a critique of the way in which such qualities may be interpreted or clustered. ( pp. 47–8 )
30 Often problems seem intractable because the same solutions are tried time and time again without success , whereas what is needed is a new approach and fresh thinking .
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