Example sentences of "demanding more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 2 | A CANDLELIT vigil demanding more funding for the NHS was held at Darlington Memorial Hospital last night . |
| 3 | Apple says A/UX customers are demanding more CPU performance and will be able to get it through PowerPC . |
| 4 | People who devote their lives to looking after an elderly or disabled relative or friend are again demanding more support from the government . |
| 5 | CRIME-HIT small firms are demanding more powers for the police and courts today after a survey found that almost 50pc of them have been victims of some sort of crime . |
| 6 | At the June elections , for the first time ever , they got together to block roads and occupy sites , demanding more land , and money for bilingual education . |
| 7 | In a report , the Wolf Enquiry into this year 's prison disturbances , they 're demanding more officers , a legal minimum standard of accommodation for inmates and an independent omb , an independent ombudsman for prisoner 's complaints . |
| 8 | Several thousand have signed a petition demanding more change . |
| 9 | Björling was drunk , according to Culshaw , Nilsson was demanding more money and the whole thing fell apart . |
| 10 | While Lebanon 's Christians were demanding more territory , Protestants in the north of Ireland were safeguarding their future statelet within the United Kingdom by accepting less than they might have claimed . |
| 11 | In return for BA being able to increase its 25% stake in USAir , American carriers are demanding more access to British airports — especially BA 's fortress at Heathrow . |
| 12 | Our survey found that while parents are demanding more control over schools , enthusiasm diminishes when asked to give up time to become governors or attend parent teachers events . |
| 13 | Meanwhile students , some of whom carried on regardless , are also demanding more facilities and debt counsellors as part of a ten point crisis campaign . |
| 14 | It is exclusive inasmuch as it demands a recognition of a continuously expanding number of works of art , a process which finds its correlative in cultural criticism 's developing complexity of coding , with the result that works of art and their criticism becomes increasingly ‘ difficult ’ , forever demanding more time and more money to ‘ appreciate ’ . |
| 15 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 16 | This has split the Community down the middle with the poorer nations like Portugal , Spain , Greece and Ireland demanding more hand-outs . |
| 17 | The group is demanding more effort from those in charge of factories . |
| 18 | Atkinson the manager spent most of the second half demanding more effort from Atkinson the striker . |
| 19 | Finnish environmentalists are demanding more information about the content of the spill . |
| 20 | Once fledged , young cuckoos stay around the nest site demanding more food from their foster parents for several days . |