Example sentences of "[pron] make [det] demands " in BNC.
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| 1 | The career of a full-time vegetarian forager , always on the move in search of food , can not include patterns of child-care which make such demands on the mother and which put the neonate in such a dependent state . |
| 2 | She made few demands on her parents but sat quietly , playing with an orange in a plastic mug . |
| 3 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 4 | On the Northampton sites , they see themselves as exemplary green folk , since they make fewer demands on environmentally destructive goods and services than most of us . |
| 5 | Thus , the trainer is our example was watching for relaxation before he made any demands on the horse , and also communicating his calm confidence . |
| 6 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 7 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |