Example sentences of "[is] needed be " in BNC.

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1 What is needed are more journals that are prepared to publish long , serious , reflective essays or review-articles , as the London Review of Books does .
2 What is needed are effective regulators and that is the common thread which runs from John Bloom and Bernie Cornfeld to Peter Clowes and Guinness .
3 Surely all that is needed are those volumes of ‘ Yes , Minister ’ and the works of Dobbs and Archer , together with a beginner 's guide to political advertising .
4 What is needed are peaceful campaigns aimed at the whaling communities via public demonstrations ; Japan is not averse to these measures , as the countrywide anti-nuclear demonstrations show .
5 What is needed are some prophets , some evangelists , some pastors and teachers ( Ephesians 4 : 11–12 ) , some whose gift is to serve , some to contribute to the needs of others , some to encourage , some to lead ( but not all ) , some to show mercy cheerfully ( Romans 12 : 6–8 ) .
6 What is needed are lots of lively wrigglers . ’
7 What is needed are ways of expressing controversy courteously .
8 Sometimes all that is needed is for the smear to be repeated in 6 months or a year .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 What is needed is an active campaign to change the law to allow children , accompanied by a responsible adult , into a public house , or certain specified rooms within that public house , at specified times of the day , the rooms and times being agreed by the licensing justices following application from the licensee .
12 With a sensitive magnetometer all that is needed is a few turns of enamelled wire reasonably carefully wound onto a piece of plastic drainpipe .
13 In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube .
14 What is needed is generous help to ensure their children survive and aid systems which really are of benefit to the people .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 What is needed is either full co-ordination , or none at all , with countries concentrating on their domestic needs .
18 What is needed is some mechanism for enforcement of the agreement , so that it would be in no one 's interest to break it .
19 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 .
20 The help that is needed is essentially for someone to listen , maybe repeatedly and sometimes , it seems , endlessly .
21 ‘ All I can give you at this stage is fine words when what is needed is action .
22 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 .
23 What is needed is evidence that the phenomena supposed to reflect different short-term and long-term processes respond differently to various procedural manipulations .
24 What is needed is a lean , muscular , high-turnover stock presented in attractive and imaginative ways …
25 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 .
26 No formal qualifications are required for enrolment and young or old are all potential candidates ; all that is needed is a desire to learn .
27 What is needed is an understanding of the principles that lie behind both the selection of questions to be asked , and the methods of supplying answers to them .
28 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 .
29 Strength is not important ; what is needed is the correct technique .
30 what is needed is organisation , administration and , above all , quality leadership .
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