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 | 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 . |
6 | In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |