Example sentences of "[noun] needed was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything the ordinary Egyptian needed was there . |
| 2 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 3 | The number of sureties needed was in proportion to the sum borrowed , one housekeeper for £5 , two for £10 and so on . |
| 4 | He felt that the investment needed was not particularly high compared to other activities , and that there would be a good chance of staffing such a unit on a small scale . |
| 5 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |
| 6 | What Manville needed was an argument with gut-weight , real pull . |
| 7 | The last thing this scene needed was a non-participating spectator and I am indeed grateful for that privilege . |
| 8 | What Russia needed was revolutionary cells with roots among the people and contempt for abstract theory . |
| 9 | Brian Leith 's job was to film the political campaign of a Sarawak conservationist , when the last thing the campaign needed was Western broadcasters hanging around . |
| 10 | The equipment needed was quite elementary — padded trestles to lay the wings on , and cradles for holding them upright , small portable drilling machines and riveting guns and general metal fitting tools for one man and a woman assistant at each repair position . |
| 11 | What Hope needed was a stage , a part and an audience . |
| 12 | In a memorable phrase Mr Perot suggested that what GM needed was ‘ the capitalist equivalent of Mao 's cultural revolution ’ . |
| 13 | All that dealers needed was the ability to persist after the phone had been slammed down on them . |
| 14 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 15 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 16 | What Cliff needed was encouragement and affection . |
| 17 | What Fleischmann and Pons needed was their own proof of the neutrons and Harwell was well equipped with the necessary measuring instruments . |
| 18 | What the deaf people of Liverpool needed was their own building , so in 1876 , Healey started a building fund for a new institute . |
| 19 | The last thing South Africa needed was for tourists , especially British tourists , to be murdered on the beaches . |
| 20 | Its failure to provide the counselling and support needed was unfair to her and her parents . |
| 21 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 22 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 23 | If you put young people to work digging ditches , the argument ran , you were keeping other people out of employment ; and what young people needed was not bogus work but real jobs . |
| 24 | ‘ People are entitled to be angry — the cynical deceit of the Tory election campaign , the easy promise that all the economy needed was the reassurance of a Tory victory , all now exposed in the harsh light of the real world . ’ |
| 25 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |
| 26 | Margaret Thatcher had created a ‘ supermarket society ’ where the only thing a society needed was a credit card and the only freedoms that mattered were those that could be bought . |
| 27 | But he repeated that what Iran needed was " an honest first-class Army with a decent standard of living . |
| 28 | His general note was one of chiding MacDonald for the weakness of his control over his own extremists and suggesting that what the country needed was men of practical experience , breadth of view and lack of dogmatic commitment . |
| 29 | Sometimes brick tracery was used , sometimes the small quantity of stone needed was found for important buildings . |
| 30 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |