Example sentences of "makes [adj] demands " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are compelled to weigh against this the evidence from our case studies , from the professionals interviewed and from the community care plans , that care programming makes clear demands on limited resources . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When the toddler makes endless demands on his mother , he is oblivious to her exhaustion . |
| 4 | The National Curriculum makes enormous demands on teachers in rural primary schools , requiring a staff of two or three to cover nine curriculum areas and five cross-curriculum themes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I admire your loyalty , Paige , darling , but not when someone makes outrageous demands . |
| 7 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 8 | The perspective on pedagogy that informs this book , then , makes considerable demands on the practising teacher . |
| 9 | Running a good Sea School makes considerable demands on all concerned . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |
| 12 | ‘ I think you have to remember that the priestly ministry is one which makes considerable demands , both emotional and spiritual , on its members , ’ the Bishop added . |
| 13 | The whole process of review makes considerable demands ( Bell 1988:231 ) : the aim is to produce internal school development rather than to provide a mechanism for external accountability . |
| 14 | Their very excellence makes heavy demands on the time and energy of their teaching faculty , so people who stay long in such places rarely produce the books and articles commonly published by their counterparts in bigger universities , and are therefore often little known outside their own institutions . |
| 15 | From the point of view of library administration the guided tour type of library orientation makes heavy demands on library staff time . |
| 16 | The elimination diet is fairly stringent , and there is a risk of being undernourished because milk-production makes heavy demands on your body . |
| 17 | The New OED system makes heavy demands on the processor . |
| 18 | Either alternative makes heavy demands on computing power , particularly on networked systems . |
| 19 | In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high . |
| 20 | If both partners aim at satisfaction of the other and of themselves , if both recognise that sex is not always at its peak of pleasure for both or either of them , if neither makes undue demands on partner or self ( while not imposing undue restrictions ) , if both can enjoy sexual congress free from circumstances which impose anxiety or guilt , little can go wrong . |
| 21 | The piece tests the actor 's awareness and imagination to the full , but nevertheless makes precise demands on him : he must follow exactly what the author says . |
| 22 | Drama makes difficult demands on the participants . |
| 23 | His , however , is a love which makes exacting demands . |
| 24 | The film is therefore built up in pieces , a process which makes particular demands of an actor — who is also vulnerable to technical problems with cameras , lighting and editing in a way which is quite removed from the stage actor 's experience . |
| 25 | Berkoff makes particular demands on the actor . |
| 26 | Society makes certain demands and assumptions and , when families can not live up to them , they can be made to feel outcast and inadequate and this does not help their ability to cope . |
| 27 | The Tour makes supreme demands on its competitors . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , imitation makes special demands upon the child 's pragmatic skills and may not , therefore , always provide an accurate indication of the child 's ability to produce language spontaneously ( Ingram 1974 ) or of the child 's underlying linguistic competence ( Slobin and Welsh 1973 ) . |