Example sentences of "a demand for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America 's black nationalism , on the other hand , was an identification with independence struggles in Africa , not a demand for a separate territory . |
| 2 | The Orion 41 has been introduced by Ubbink into its range of top-hung roof windows in response to a demand for a small roof window that can be installed without major ‘ surgery ’ to the roof timbers . |
| 3 | Thus the call for an independent Poland was a demand for a new imperialist power . |
| 4 | Elsewhere in England , during the Wars of the Roses , it saw a reversion to murder , violence and a demand for a new type of lordship . |
| 5 | STUART PEARCE , Nottingham Forest 's England left back and skipper , has had a demand for a new contract thrown out by Brian Clough . |
| 6 | The attack on aristocratic moral excesses simultaneously became a demand for a new stable order as a buttress against social collapse . |
| 7 | He opened negotiations with the Viet Minh and was given a statement amounting to a demand for a substantial handover of French authority . |
| 8 | We 're not just of this period , we write good songs and there 's always a demand for a good song . |
| 9 | The leader in the second paper , headed ‘ An Affront to Human Dignity , ’ was on much the same lines , ending with a demand for a Royal Commission to look into the ‘ hidden and possibly evil secrets of the laboratories of Britain 's universities ’ and an appeal to ‘ right-thinking people ’ to raise their voices against this outrageous treatment of a helpless baby . |
| 10 | Then , too , a demand for a public inquiry into drug safety was turned down — the minister was Dr David Owen — as it had earlier been over thalidomide by David Ennals . |
| 11 | The demand for central direction , then , partly as we have seen , a demand that the Local Education Authorities should be kept in their place , has become also a demand for a particular style of rigorous , and rigorously examined , curriculum . |
| 12 | When the localiser makes a demand for a left or right correction , refer back at once to Horizon and Heading using rudder for the 2° to 5° heading change . |
| 13 | First , there is a demand for a clear and complete self-consciousness about what we are doing when we form beliefs about the world — a philosophical account of knowledge provides a perspicuous account of knowledge which means that we pursue inquiries knowing what we are doing , knowing why it is rational to proceed as we do , and understanding how we can obtain knowledge . |