Example sentences of "[pron] make [adj] demands on " 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 Moreover , disability can itself make extra demands on financial resources because the disabled need extra care and special services .
3 She made few demands on her parents but sat quietly , playing with an orange in a plastic mug .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Thus , the trainer is our example was watching for relaxation before he made any demands on the horse , and also communicating his calm confidence .
7 Did it make inessential demands on the teacher ? 12 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff .
13 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 .
14 The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic .
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