Example sentences of "it needed a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 2 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 3 | The crisis made TI realise that it needed a radical change of direction if it was to survive in the future . |
| 4 | On a Saturday , when the front platform was piled high with suitcases , his job was even more difficult , and it needed a strong arm to operate the hand-brake effectively on these 18-ton cars . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was very dimly aware that it needed a new type of thought . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 9 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 10 | It needed a new word . |
| 11 | Perhaps the problem with the machine , thought many of the intellectuals , was that it needed a new design and improved principles to guide it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It needed a two-tier design approach , but now that it 's got one — compliments of the VRX implementation ( UX No 379 ) — the window of opportunity is n't as wide open . |
| 14 | It needed a substantial amount of advertising , and the figures suggest that it did n't get it . |
| 15 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
| 16 | But it needed a full-time crammer to get you there and you 're still below average . |
| 17 | Stoke boss Lou Macari was more subdued as he admitted : ‘ It needed a little spark of magic up front to get us into the next round , but we did n't have that spark tonight . ’ |
| 18 | However , the Baltimore was a good aircraft and it needed a direct hit to knock one down and so , despite our damage , I was able to get the aircraft back to base . ’ |
| 19 | In the case of family planning , the inter-uterine contraceptive device ( IUCD ) was launched in India in the mid-1960s before adequate research showed that many women were physically unsuited to it , and it needed a high level of professional judgement on the part of the paramedical staff inserting it . |
| 20 | It needed a two-sided commitment and , willingly or not , Niall was already committed , to another woman . |
| 21 | Before the show , the uniforms were approved by 93 per cent of serving soldiers , but it needed a practised eye to seek out details that distinguished the new gear from smart civilian clothes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sometimes it needed a special tool . |
| 24 | The Agenais and other territories were not restored immediately ; it needed a further war in 1326 and an agreement , concluded in March 1327 , to secure the restoration of those lands . |
| 25 | By 1948 the US needed an international cultural prestige to offset its military and political power : it needed a sophisticated reply to the slogans of Yankee Go Home ! |
| 26 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |