Example sentences of "[noun sg] needed was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything the ordinary Egyptian needed was there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The last thing this scene needed was a non-participating spectator and I am indeed grateful for that privilege . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Its failure to provide the counselling and support needed was unfair to her and her parents . |
| 10 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 11 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sometimes brick tracery was used , sometimes the small quantity of stone needed was found for important buildings . |
| 17 | His father , John Murphy , said he should have been taken to Durham Prison , where medical treatment which he said his son needed was available if necessary . |
| 18 | What the second stage needed was not a distribution , such as a successful general adoption of the co-operative form of organisation would have prompted , of the wealth created by the first stage , but rather an accumulation and concentration . |
| 19 | For the universe to continue to expand and new matter be created , the steady state model required a modification of general relativity , but the rate of creation needed was very low : about one particle per cubic kilometer per year , which would not conflict with observation . |