Example sentences of "was need be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was needed was a lead not a lecture . |
| 2 | What was needed was a much improved rail link to Southampton , backed by a tax policy that would penalize motor vehicles and favour the railways . |
| 3 | All that was needed was a positive reply from Mr Hussein . |
| 4 | Now he proclaimed that inflation was a much more serious threat to national wellbeing than unemployment , which anyway was a greatly overestimated danger , and that what was needed was a much tighter control of the money supply and the budget deficit . |
| 5 | What was needed was a small bomb capable of blowing a hole through the wing of an aircraft and igniting the fuel in the tanks inside . |
| 6 | Eventually I decided that what was needed was a little organisation — a systematic approach to make my busy life a little less fraught . |
| 7 | What was needed was a foraging inside-forward who could pick up passes from defence and create scoring chances for the other forwards . |
| 8 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 9 | What was needed was a continual flow of information regarding IBM 's product and marketing plans , which is readily available from a legion of professional IBM watchers who demand , and receive , hefty sums for analyses of future IBM strategies . |
| 10 | ‘ What was needed was a new look at the problems and the ways in which they might be solved , both in the UK and elsewhere . |
| 11 | What was needed was a new system of dégorgement , able to cope with far greater capacity levels at a significantly higher speed than the traditional à la volèe process . |
| 12 | However , even the smallest cylinder stocked by plumbers ' merchants was far too big for this application — what was needed was a small , neat cylinder , that would fit snugly under the wash basin unit . |
| 13 | No , she said , the damage had already been done and what was needed was a heart and lung transplant . |
| 14 | All that was needed was a little encouragement , a sign that the employer was committed to good employment policies and practices for people with disabilities . |
| 15 | What was needed was a theory of the material conditions , including social and political relations , that inhibit the emancipation of human beings through their own actions . |
| 16 | Their newspapers existed solely to point this out , and were designed to lead readers to the inescapable conclusion that what was needed was a new political party , free from the sell-outs of the Labour Party and the trade-union leaders . |
| 17 | What was needed was a dispassionate focus on the root of the problem , and this meant that the subject had to lose its normative character . |
| 18 | What was needed was a wider distribution of the profits of industry , especially through higher wages . |
| 19 | All that was needed was a computer at each end of a dedicated phone line , and software to allow computer to computer communications . |
| 20 | Berwicke like many leading women repealers , found the work disturbing and felt that what was needed was a revival of the repealers ' message of anti-statism and personal liberty . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the 1980s a group of community activists , trade unionists , community educators , peace workers and feminists met and agreed that what was needed was a reappraisal of previous efforts in the field , a conscious effort to determine their own social and political position and to choose an educational model or approach which reflected the latter . |
| 22 | This made for a softer , more innocent and ingenuous ‘ Dora ’ , but perhaps what was needed was a slightly sharper , more bristly Dora with a hidden vulnerability , which came more naturally when I gave her a North London accent … |
| 23 | All that was needed was a fifty-signature petition , a special general meeting and a simple majority in favour of the proposition . |
| 24 | What was needed was a complete abolition of development charges . |
| 25 | What was needed was a guarantee that extra care would be taken not to lose the film . |
| 26 | ‘ We do not need a peace envoy , thank you very much , ’ Sir Patrick said , before going on to emphasise that what was needed was a settlement from the current all-party talks process . |
| 27 | What was needed was a good control system which would tell them where in the organization the problem lay so they could tackle it at source . |
| 28 | What was needed was the necessary stimulus . |
| 29 | This was the basic reason for Britain 's poor investment record and profitability , and what was needed was the release of resources from the unproductive areas in order to rebuild the productive base . |
| 30 | What was needed was the kind of laws and regulations , and tax structure , that would make the market society work , or allow it to work , and the kind of state services — defence , and even military expansion , education , sanitation , and various sorts of assistance to industry , such as tariffs and grants for railway development that were thought necessary to make the system run efficiently and profitably . |