Example sentences of "demand of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Omitting his radical change of direction ( i.e. of subject ) in his second year , it represents a demand of surrealist proportions , especially when one considers that alongside these he was reading French , Latin , Mathematics , Philosophy and History . |
| 2 | The building materials industry geared itself to meet the steady predictable demand of the house-building industry , thus eliminating one of the chief impediments to the output of houses . |
| 3 | Sport certainly responded to the demand of the urban worker for entertainment . |
| 4 | At present a hotel has to have a peak demand of over one megawatt , a tall order , but in March 1994 — if not earlier — users with a 100kW demand will be given shopping freedom . |
| 5 | Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed . |
| 6 | Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed . |
| 7 | The abrogation of article 6 was also a key demand of striking miners in the Arctic coalfields . |
| 8 | The Forum sought to link the creation of the new government to the stepping down of President Gustav Husak , a key demand of the opposition . |
| 9 | Its organisers increased their demands after last Friday 's central committee meeting accepted a key demand of the union and ousted many Zhivkov supporters from the Community Party leadership . |
| 10 | The depth of this crisis persuaded members of the radical Inter-Regional Group of congressional deputies to abandon their call for a two-hour strike today , in demand of a revision of Article 6 of thr constitution which enshrines the party 's monopoly . |
| 11 | The reorganisation of the ‘ whole system of commerce , starting with the demand of the people and its satisfaction ’ . |
| 12 | However , if one turns to the report 's tables , based on a growth in energy demand of between 1 and 2 per cent a year , it makes little difference whether gas or coal is the main fuel used to produce electricity . |
| 13 | Confiscating savings has long been a demand of the most reactionary groups who think that all private business is conducted by ‘ the mafia ’ , which the confiscation is supposed to hurt ( actually , the most criminalised businesses hold much of their savings in dollars and gold ) . |
| 14 | For celibacy is only really intelligible when understood as a demand of love . |
| 15 | Thoughtful pagans regarded the ethical demand of the Christian proclamation as too tough to be practicable , and feared that the proclamation of peace and love to enemies would make the empire pusillanimous in self-defence . |
| 16 | He gritted his teeth against the demand of his lungs to burst . |
| 17 | After twice refusing , he finally agreed to the demand of a petition of over 10,000 names asking for a session of the inquiry to be held in Bristol . |
| 18 | And the demand of American black people for equality appears as black nationalism . |
| 19 | Even elementary fraternity , the demand of the French Revolution , let alone class solidarity , proved no match for loyalty to one or other State . |
| 20 | The art of these peoples , too , was brought back to Rome , and many artists came to fulfil the demand of wealthy Romans for versions of famous works for private enjoyment . |
| 21 | West Germany is Europe 's largest energy consumer despite a fall in energy demand of 13% since 1979 . |
| 22 | Between 1973 and 1979 there was a significant increase in West German gas demand of almost 20 MTOE per annum . |
| 23 | Although a lack of continuity of part-time workers and the difficulty of accruing experience may partially justify higher demands on volunteers , nevertheless the outer London suburbs suspect that the heavy demand of a 2-day-a-week commitment now placed on all new London volunteers stems not from these practical considerations but from a poor stereotypical image of the volunteer and from a negative attitude towards volunteering in general . |
| 24 | Sadler was expressing the widely-shared belief among reformers that , given the prevalence of machinery , the labour demand of the present , and even more so of the future , was for ‘ skilled and versatile minds ’ . |
| 25 | Soon after the turn of the century , however , in response to the demand of the market place , tonics returned again . |
| 26 | But in this instance , comrade Preobrazhensky has completely forgotten about this fundamental methodological demand of Marxism . |
| 27 | If our ‘ crises ’ apparently possess the character of capitalist crises ‘ turned inside out ’ , and if effective demand of our masses has overtaken our production , then is not the ‘ goods famine ’ perhaps a general law of our development ? |
| 28 | The Central Electricity Generating Board suggests an increased electricity demand of 20 per cent in Britain by the year 2000 . |
| 29 | And when all the hype is stripped away , it is the one that people expect and demand of us . |
| 30 | González could deliver neither the central UGT demand of either full(ish) employment nor adequate welfare protection . |