Example sentences of "needed [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provision needed to be made for dowager widows , and for younger sons and for daughters , and perhaps for other persons . |
| 2 | This , however , was no more than a ‘ general outline ’ which needed to be developed in detail by the scholarly community ; indeed it was ‘ vitally necessary ’ that they do so . |
| 3 | Her attitude were extremely paternalistic and authoritarian , and based on the idea that poor people needed to be trained in household management , so that they would be able to pay their rent more regularly . |
| 4 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 5 | in February had your own thoughts begun to cristalize about what needed to be done in response to the article ? |
| 6 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 7 | The individual and the nation needed to be seen as part of the evolutionary development of the race , through processes which obeyed observable and scientifically predictable laws . |
| 8 | This part , the focal point of her lecture , needed to be handled with care . |
| 9 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 10 | Sidgwick , for example , argued thus that the typical duties recognized by common sense could not be self evident and necessary since the clashes between them needed to be resolved by appeal to a more fundamental principle , that of the principle of utility , and that it was therefore this alone which possessed such a status . |
| 11 | But Shaw had not been well and Charlotte felt he urgently needed to be revived with country air . |
| 12 | Best practice is always a moving target , and in the six years since the directive was issued there have been a number of developments in domestic and international financial reporting that needed to be reflected by credit institutions . |
| 13 | Rohmer began to make shushing noises as if Gilbert was a child who needed to be restrained for sleep . |
| 14 | It happens erm I 've handled a case myself where shares were valued at a particular amount on the death and er in due course they needed to be sold as part of the administration unfortunately they 'd gone down er a fair amount in the mean time . |
| 15 | The processing required to convert the typesetting format to a usable format was essentially iterative and needed to be performed with care . |
| 16 | We discovered that a paella needed to be ordered at lunchtime for the evening , and went back to eat it while watching boats come back in the gathering gloom . |
| 17 | Instructions for the folding part of the handle referred to an earlier model with a spindle ; but the wingnut handles were obviously fixed by a bolt , and released by a few turns when the handle needed to be folded for storage . |
| 18 | In addition , an adolescent king needed to be taken into account in a way that an infant did not . |
| 19 | A number of hazards were revealed which had not been specifically predicted but which needed to be taken into account in designing the main research project . |
| 20 | In addition , an adolescent king needed to be taken into account in a way that an infant did not . |
| 21 | The initiative in theology in the closing years of Troeltsch 's life was already passing to those who held that it was not , and that the whole direction of thought which could be seen as culminating in him needed to be put into reverse . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , let's say I reckoned Mrs Wilson needed to be told about struggle and hard work . |