Example sentences of "make [adj] demands " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel . |
| 2 | Of course , if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands . |
| 3 | The fear that the encounter might have been handled incompetently is concealed in dismissive remarks about this type of work , about it not bring their job , as well as critical comments on the members of the public who think it is and who therefore make unrealistic demands on them . |
| 4 | She made few demands on her parents but sat quietly , playing with an orange in a plastic mug . |
| 5 | Different patterns of work made different demands on the family . |
| 6 | Ampullaria , golden or brown , thrive in the aquarium and make few demands . |
| 7 | Both functions make different demands . |
| 8 | In addition , it is claimed that people of different socioeconomic groups make different demands on the health service at similar levels of sickness or ‘ objective ’ need and that the cost of meeting these needs may also vary . |
| 9 | Similarly , each teacher will make different demands on the learner , and variable standards may be expected . |
| 10 | Moreover , disability can itself make extra demands on financial resources because the disabled need extra care and special services . |
| 11 | Normal entrance requirements for degree courses should apply , and parallel courses should make differentiated demands on students . |
| 12 | When , however , some women did wish to join the larger societies in the 1870s , the societies found their doctors unwilling to treat women unless they paid higher contributions than men , on the grounds that women were more often sick and would make heavier demands on their services , which thus would be of greater benefit to poorer women . |
| 13 | It seems natural to assume that as in the twenty-first century more people live to be very old , more of them will necessarily make heavier demands on health and social services ; that people who die in their nineties experience a longer period of dependency and illness before death than those who die in their seventies . |
| 14 | However , on the demand side , the influences ( whatever their relative strengths ) of genetic inheritance and other environmental variables will make individual demands for human capital differ . |
| 15 | His nature is love and love does not make such demands . |
| 16 | Decorative art does not usually make such demands . |
| 17 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 18 | If this sounds rather a lot it is worth noting that other word processors that offer similar facilities make similar demands of your hardware . |
| 19 | time for training was difficult to find because training made additional demands on already busy people |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Those who want equal time for creation science in biology classes might as well make similar demands for Flat Earth theory in astronomy classes . |
| 22 | No administration has ever made such demands ; and no congress has ever accepted such demands . |
| 23 | For some years now modern farming has made tremendous demands on the finite sources of energy which exist on earth . |
| 24 | While agreeing that all the recent educational initiatives have made tremendous demands on teachers , the staff at Lostock Hall have shown that the commitment to extra-curricular activities is still in evidence . |
| 25 | The industry 's many critics had made great demands and threatened many a crisis but they had not halted the growth of the movies as mass entertainment . |
| 26 | The steady flow of money from record sales and overseas royalties had meant that Virgin had not made great demands on their overdraft facility . |
| 27 | It is obscured to some extent by the heavily didactic purpose of Masterman Ready and this may partly account for the fact that young readers have always claimed the adult novel , Mr Midshipman Easy , as their own , even though it must always have made considerable demands on their reading skills and their understanding . |
| 28 | Moreover , Purefoy may have made unreasonable demands on those who worked for him . |
| 29 | In the last fifteen years of her reign Elizabeth also made increasing demands on her subjects for ships or for money in lieu of ships . |
| 30 | One major American aim at the conference had been to limit the power of the Japanese , who since their victories over China in 1895 and over Russia in 1905 , had made increasing demands on China . |