Example sentences of "need [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 I really did n't need another jumper , but what I did need was a button-to-the-neck cardigan .
2 Many people who were not needed were leaving Liverpool each evening to sleep in the woods at Huyton or at various halls and cinemas on the outskirts of the city , but Julia was too frail to be moved .
3 The Americans wanted their Philippines bases ; all that was needed was Marcos 's ritual invoking of the Red Menace to make everything possible .
4 All that was needed was for someone to take Rowland 's ascetic vision/version of soul fanaticism and commandeer it for political ends .
5 What was needed was a lead not a lecture .
6 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 .
7 All that was needed was a positive reply from Mr Hussein .
8 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 .
9 What was needed was for the Government to spend much more money , in a more caring fashion .
10 These , said the DoE , were ‘ a serious step backward ’ , The DoE claimed that the low sulphur coal ( under I per cent ) which would be needed was ‘ not readily available ’ .
11 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 .
12 Eventually I decided that what was needed was a little organisation — a systematic approach to make my busy life a little less fraught .
13 Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled .
14 What was needed was something down home and businesslike .
15 What was needed was a foraging inside-forward who could pick up passes from defence and create scoring chances for the other forwards .
16 All that was needed was skill combined with imagination .
17 For practitioners , what was needed was an essay that was not too long , and which attempted to develop specific proposals that they could act upon .
18 What was really needed was a ‘ whole-school ’ day .
19 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 .
20 What was needed was that intention to make a legal act should be expressed ; this then had to be taken to be charged on the heir as trustee , since in that way the principle of benefit could be satisfied .
21 What seemed to be needed was a statement from medical authority .
22 Nationally what was needed was not so much cash as a rational development programme with long-term perspectives .
23 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 .
24 Andy went to see Peter and the final conclusion was that what I really needed was a car to help me travel to training and meetings .
25 What was needed was for us to get together with an arbitrator .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 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 .
28 What was needed was ‘ to radically wipe out the major differences between towns and villages ’ in order ‘ to more powerfully homogenize our socialist society , to create a single worker people ’ .
29 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 .
30 No , she said , the damage had already been done and what was needed was a heart and lung transplant .
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