Example sentences of "it make [adj] demands " in BNC.
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1 | Did it make inessential demands on the teacher ? 12 . |
2 | Calling for the " strengthening of ties between the party and the masses " , it made seven demands : ( i ) adherence to the mass line ( i.e. policy making and implementation in line with the interests of the people ) ; ( ii ) officials to go down among the masses ; ( iii ) the strengthening of socialist democracy and the legal system ; ( iv ) fighting official corruption ; ( v ) supervision , internal and from outside ; ( vi ) the need for exemplary behaviour from party members ; and ( vii ) raising political ( Marxist ) awareness . |
3 | It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it . |
4 | In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It generates paper in sickening profusion ; it makes unconscionable demands on the heroes of the piece , the thirteen or fourteen hundred volunteers drawn mainly from ‘ that two-handed engine ’ we pompously call the binary system of higher education … but with all its faults the system works . |
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 . |
8 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
9 | Producing it makes considerable demands on an animal 's bodily resources and although the silk moth , encouraged by man 's selective breeding , extrudes it in large quantities , most insects are rather more sparing in their use of it . |
10 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |