Example sentences of "a great demand for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 2 | It must be remembered , too , that the early years of the revolution saw a great demand for labour in order to rebuild the economy and , also , to fill the immense gap left by the departing middle class . |
| 3 | However , with the blossoming of interest in aromatherapy , coinciding with green awareness , there is a great demand for pure , unadulterated essential oils — organically produced if possible . |
| 4 | Once production was under way there came a great demand for the engines from the ore mines of Cornwall . |
| 5 | When machine-made yarn brought a great demand for their labour , the weavers entered a " higher state of wealth , peace and godliness " . |
| 6 | The work has been quite hard , actually little short of the 24 hours ' teaching a week which I originally feared we might have to teach , but it 's a pity not to offer the course as we prepared it in Peking , complete with extra lectures , as there seems to be a great demand for anything we teach , which is understandable considering that it 's a chance of a lifetime for some of the teachers ; in fact , some have never spoken to a foreigner in their lives before ! |
| 7 | This led to an increase in urban employment opportunities and the expanding workforce gave rise to a greater demand for food . |
| 8 | We may have to learn to live with a greater demand for water and less recharge to aquifers . |
| 9 | Its fifty maps , according to county ( and especially when attractively coloured ) will fetch anything from £30 to £200 each , there being a greater demand for the Home Counties and certain others . |
| 10 | But some forms of technological change resulted both in new forms of homework ( the retailing revolution , for example , brought changes in the way goods were packaged , giving rise to the homework trade of boxmaking ) , and a greater demand for certain traditional tasks performed by homeworkers , for while parts of a particular trade might become subject to large scale organisation , other aspects of the same trade not uncommonly remained the province of homeworkers . |