Example sentences of "['s] demand for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Schneidau follows Pound 's own broad hints by tracing his gradual alienation or liberation from these early admirations according as Ford 's demands for a prosaic strength in verse writing gradually won Pound over from the Wardour Street language of his own early poems ( such as ‘ Canzone : The Yearly Slain' , written in reply to Manning 's ‘ Korè ’ ) .
2 But the plan has foundered in the EC 's demand for a general liability clause , a feature that has proved difficult to sort out on an international level .
3 Confronted by this statement , Giraud accepted de Gaulle 's demand for a central French authority to be headed jointly by the two men .
4 She sidestepped Mr Shore 's demand for a select committee inquiry into the ‘ enormous ’ threat to Westminster 's powers posed by the last two stages of the Delors plan , centralised banking and budgetary controls .
5 A public enquiry in 1835 aired the radicals ' demands for a Paris-style research museum , but traditional forces ensured that the scientists were kept subordinate to public figures who were more concerned with the arts .
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