Example sentences of "that it need a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
| 2 | It was very dimly aware that it needed a new type of thought . |
| 3 | Perhaps the problem with the machine , thought many of the intellectuals , was that it needed a new design and improved principles to guide it . |
| 4 | The crisis made TI realise that it needed a radical change of direction if it was to survive in the future . |
| 5 | Paley knew that it needed a special explanation ; Darwin knew it , and I suspect that in his heart of hearts my philosopher companion knew it too . |
| 6 | The reason for the bird 's big feet is that it needs a large shovel with which to pile up the mound of compost , earth and leaf litter in which the fowl buries and incubates its single very large egg . |