Example sentences of "[pron] makes [adj] demand " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admire your loyalty , Paige , darling , but not when someone makes outrageous demands . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | His , however , is a love which makes exacting demands . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The delay in his transfer over his sports shop confirmed Chapman 's estimation of him , for he admired players who sought to protect their own interests : ‘ This is an indication to me that the player who makes this demand has intelligence . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |