Example sentences of "demand [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Literary theory is at present in demand as a point of reference for writing on the visual arts .
2 His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades .
3 He was in demand as a confessor , from a few parishioners , a few neighbouring clergy , a few old students at Lincoln .
4 When blindness compelled him to give up farming in 1966 he learned Braille and carried on with his public duties , being much in demand as a witty public speaker .
5 By the mid-twentieth century the Guernsey was no longer a park decorator in England but in great demand as a commercial dairy cow .
6 Although out of farming , he had retained his interest in Clydesdales and was in demand as a show ring judge .
7 However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right .
8 Any competitive networks set up might produce an increase in demand as a result of having stimulated new requirements .
9 By the middle of the 1950s Reagan was no longer in great demand as a film actor , but new opportunities became available to him in television .
10 In between driving lessons — she passed her test at the second attempt she was much in demand as a babysitter by her sisters ' married friends while Sarah used her to make up numbers at her frequent dinner parties .
11 Outside the diocese his cosmopolitan early training ensured that he was much in demand as a diplomat .
12 Messel developed a form of the contact or catalytic process for the manufacture of fuming sulphuric acid , in great demand as a raw material in the dyestuffs industry .
13 She was much in demand as a speaker at educational conferences .
14 He was soon in demand as a proctor in Rome , where he must have spent much of his time , acting for the clergy of the province of Canterbury and also the bishop of Exeter in 1277 , and for John Peckham [ q.v. ] , archbishop of Canterbury , between 1279 and 1282 .
15 Much in demand as a conciliator , he believed that the redress of grievances should proceed ‘ with all temper and due moderation ’ .
16 His insights and skill have made him much in demand as a consultant .
17 So naturally he travels a great deal , and is in demand as a consultant wherever Roman sites are being excavated .
18 Fifty years drumming and still going strong is legendary figure John Rea from Saintfield Pipe Band , who is still much in demand as a leading Irish and Scottish adjudicator .
19 In Africa , Guinness has continued to make significant progress , and although Nigeria , the largest market for Guinness in Africa , has faced reduced demand as a result of very poor economic conditions , sales elsewhere have continued to grow .
20 Mr Hutton of Springfield Close , Thirsk , who taught wine-making , spoke on local radio on the subject and was in demand as a judge , once said : ‘ I love wine — it oozes out of my ears . ’
21 If , on the other hand , businessmen are generally optimistic and see the increase in demand as a signal for further increases , they may actually buy more machines than predicted by the accelerator theory .
22 Steve Cooney , the almost legendary ace guitarist from Australia , has worked with all the Irish greats — Stockton 's Wing , Jimmy McCarthy , De Danann and Christy Moore — to name but four — and he 's constantly in demand as a record producer .
23 Lance-Corporal John Shaw ( 1789–1815 ) , a prize-fighter whose magnificent physique caused him to be much in demand as an artist 's model .
24 Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously .
25 Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously .
26 McColvin 's early work Theory of book selection for public libraries , which postulated demand as the principal criterion for provision , is repudiated in an article he published some 30 years later .
27 Post-Keynesian critics of this view have tended to place more emphasis on increases in government spending , in domestic private spending or in export demand as the sources of excess demand inflation , and less emphasis on monetary growth .
28 This is an author who has contributed to the Russia which has come after him — to the emergence there , at the present time , of the demand for a lawful Opposition , for the duality of democracy .
29 This year Benskins came back with a demand for a £5,000 a year increase that would have taken John 's annual rent to £23,000 plus £100 a week for the business rate .
30 But Christian MPs held firm to their demand for a programmed Syrian military withdrawal , brushing aside repeated verbal assurances from Arab countries that such a withdrawal would take place .
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