Example sentences of "it needed a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 2 | It was very dimly aware that it needed a new type of thought . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 5 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 6 | It needed a new word . |
| 7 | Perhaps the problem with the machine , thought many of the intellectuals , was that it needed a new design and improved principles to guide it . |
| 8 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |