Example sentences of "it makes [adj] demands on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |