Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] demand for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the labour shortage , employers have skilfully staved off demands for big wage increases , helped by sensational talk in the media of an ‘ economic crisis ’ . |
| 2 | The company looks for demand for board-level products to continue — OEM customers for these have included E-Systems Inc , Polaroid Corp , General Electric Co Inc , Amdahl Corp , Encore Computer Corp , Xerox Corp and Thomson-CSF SA . |
| 3 | It also means subscription to Foucaultian power/knowledge assumptions that are difficult to square with demands for modernist universalism . |
| 4 | In the long term , the report says , the situation may improve as demand for virgin metals in industrialized countries continues to fall , and metal recycling increases . |
| 5 | In Sri Lanka Sinhalese-Buddhist cultural nationalism was linked with other grievances and was sometimes expressed through rioting , but in the absence of élite leadership it was not channelled into demands for constitutional concessions from the British . |
| 6 | Now the river 's flow varies on a daily basis , according to demands for hydroelectric power at the dam , and never reaches spring flood proportions . |
| 7 | Peacock and Wiseman 's ‘ displacement theory ’ , covering the period 1890–1953 , suggested that public spending was not rising with the smooth , small changes predicted by Wagner , but that it was displaced ( permanently ) upwards by social upheavals associated , for instance , with depressions or wars leading to demands for new social expenditure ( Fig. 15.6 above indicates the displacements of 1914–18 and 1939–45 ) . |
| 8 | Equally , management should think through the message which it wants to convey to employees so that it does not arrive too soon in a half baked form , leading to demands for endless meetings and possible confrontation . |
| 9 | There were further difficulties within most of the republics stemming from demands for local autonomy or even independence . |
| 10 | Foreign imports such as colour television sets and hi-fi systems cram shop windows , catering to demands for conspicuous consumption . |
| 11 | Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace have also been feeling the slump in civil aviation : the hangover after a spending boom , the post-liberalisation troubles of the American airline industry and the hiccup over the Gulf war have all cut into demand for new aeroplanes . |
| 12 | This fear has led to demands for minimum wage levels , social security provisions and minimum health and safety guarantees , to avoid competitive pressures reducing standards to unacceptably low levels . |
| 13 | Thus quite considerable amounts of labour could be generated by demand for private health and education provision . |
| 14 | Looking further ahead , coal use is likely to rise significantly only when its use is necessitated by demand for synthetic natural gas or chemical feedstocks currently acquired from oil . |
| 15 | Troops confront the peaceful demonstration , led by Father Gapon , in which traditional deference was combined with demands for far-reaching social and political reform . |
| 16 | Some people are faced with demands for sexual favours or degraded or insulted . |
| 17 | Lawyers are criticised for being slow to adapt to demands for new legal services , particularly services to the poor . |
| 18 | Mitsubishi confirmed in February it was talking to SGS , and the SGS spokeswoman said on Friday that talks were continuing.SGS-Thomson calculates the world Flash memory market at $300m last year , and expects it to grow to $500m this year and , fuelled by demand for small , light portable storage , to soar to $2,500m by 1996 . |
| 19 | What is the nature of demand for health care and does it differ from demand for other services ? |