Example sentences of "it make [adj] demand [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Did it make inessential demands on the teacher ? 12 .
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 In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high .
4 In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up .
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 A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews .
7 It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff .
8 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 .
9 The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic .
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