Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] demands [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But still , on the bus going to and from school , on her steady , daily runs in the park , swimming , weight-lifting , doing her exercises , and on those other rare occasions when she was alone and free from the demands of school , State , and family , Erika found herself thinking of Fritz , although what she thought she scarcely knew herself , except that she knew that she blushed when she did so … . |
2 | The chitinous external skeleton seems to be particularly responsive to the demands of evolution . |
3 | These include sincerity , honesty ( not to indulge in plagiarism or cheating ) , truthfulness , the avoidance of self-contradiction , a determination to be comprehensible , the intellectual courage to develop and hold a position of one 's own , a willingness to be subject to the demands of reason and evidence , an openness to other viewpoints or ways of going on , and according due ( but not undue ) respect to teaching and other staff . |
4 | Postal appointments were equally subject to the demands of politics . |
5 | They are also exempt from the demands of examination passing , assessment , and certification , that I believe have a more distorting effect in the teaching of literature than in other academic areas . |
6 | A long critical tradition , stemming from writers such as Grant Allen , Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis at the end of the nineteenth century , continuing through the liberal avant garde of the inter-war years , and culminating in the sexual reformers of the 1950s and 1960s , alive to the demands of permissiveness , has analysed the contradictions and absurdities of the moral code of the nineteenth century . |
7 | For them , negotiation , in the form of bargaining , can proceed more effectively through a process of bluff and ambush , which is inimical to the demands of justice . |
8 | This would be a similarly reductionist theory , compatible with the demands of empiricism and the verification principle , but it would not perhaps have all the metaphysical and epistemological attractions of the traditional theory . |
9 | In the ‘ family state ’ the assertion of individualism was increasingly regarded as being incompatible with the demands of patriotism . |
10 | Yet for all that , Reagan was not without experience highly relevant to the demands of executive leadership in the 1980s . |
11 | At a time when the universities were widely regarded by politicians as idle , expensive , and impervious to the demands of vocationalism in education , such a step was welcome and , indeed , government-inspired . |
12 | Live work was for the future and would follow when Kylie felt fully ready for the demands of life on the road — and for now there were a million other business opportunities to be pursued . |
13 | The Hawthorne experiments that we discussed earlier indicated that peer group pressure was more important in determining an acceptable level of output irrespective of the demands of management . |