Example sentences of "be needed [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The most common failings are to rely too much on words rather than extensively labelled diagrams , to use technical terms and concepts which the user may not understand , to focus on what it is at the expense of what it does and to fail to separate the needs of the operator from the details which are needed to set up the device , to locate faults , to provide remedies and to provide routine maintenance .
2 They are needed to dress up the stage for the production of Willy Russell 's Stags And Hens which is about to go into rehearsal at the Arts .
3 People like you are needed to take up the challenge .
4 It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) .
5 So Hinkley C and two further stations would be needed to make up the shortfall .
6 A few coats may be needed to build up the surface over deeper blemishes .
7 Four men were needed to hold down the steering oars , which bucked in their harnesses like panicked elephants .
8 A matrix is not a simple scalar quantity like 2 or 8 and a special technique is needed to carry out the operation of raising a matrix to the power n .
9 They also dance about possible new nest sites , and about water sources when water is needed to cool down the nest .
10 The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud .
11 A crash programme is needed to build up the economy , boost training and create new jobs . ’
12 More space was needed to keep up the increase in numbers .
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