Example sentences of "[noun prp] needed was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 2 | What Manville needed was an argument with gut-weight , real pull . |
| 3 | What Russia needed was revolutionary cells with roots among the people and contempt for abstract theory . |
| 4 | What Hope needed was a stage , a part and an audience . |
| 5 | In a memorable phrase Mr Perot suggested that what GM needed was ‘ the capitalist equivalent of Mao 's cultural revolution ’ . |
| 6 | What Cliff needed was encouragement and affection . |
| 7 | What Fleischmann and Pons needed was their own proof of the neutrons and Harwell was well equipped with the necessary measuring instruments . |
| 8 | What the deaf people of Liverpool needed was their own building , so in 1876 , Healey started a building fund for a new institute . |
| 9 | The last thing South Africa needed was for tourists , especially British tourists , to be murdered on the beaches . |
| 10 | But he repeated that what Iran needed was " an honest first-class Army with a decent standard of living . |
| 11 | The injustice of life stung her bitterly — Sylvester getting them Bones and co as if they were straight out of the champions ' parade at the Horse of the Year Show and not even knowing that some horses jumped and some did n't , and thinking that all weedy little Hoomey needed was motivation to become Seb Coe the second … |
| 12 | What Anselm needed was not an intimate friendship , but an understanding of an external aim which he was bound to support . |