Example sentences of "they need do be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 2 | And basically what they need to do is create peasant economy to increase production as they learn from the land . |
| 3 | What they need to do is lobby strongly for more women bosses . |
| 4 | They seem to think that all they need to do is fetch God and all will be well . |
| 5 | That is one reason why many consumer-goods firms which reckon all they need to do is cut prices temporarily will probably be proved wrong . |
| 6 | All they need to do is go up to the loft once a year and shovel them into a polythene bag ; they make excellent compost . |
| 7 | If GA pilots want to get more out of AIS , what they need to do is familiarise themselves with Skymaster and ask AIS for what they want . |
| 8 | All they need to do is write a song about a hotel and , er , walk around with an armful of very long fish indeed , and America is theirs . |
| 9 | Seasonal migrators could in principle orient themselves by a simple sense of direction ; all they need to do is obey some such rule as fly two hundred miles south' or a more complicated series of directions . |
| 10 | What I do n't understand if all they need to do is revert back to what they used to be and come straight through on the on the ordinary route . |
| 11 | All they need to do is put a ‘ before ’ and ‘ after ’ circle , one with dots and one with nothing , like they do with lavatory cleaners . |