Example sentences of "for [pron] demand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean Davies , who is also vice-chairman of the North Wales Coastal Forum , is now seeking support from council colleagues for her demand . |
| 2 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 3 | No sooner had the women 's liberation movement moved from the sixties to the seventies than it saw the economic conditions for its demands evaporate . |
| 4 | In Parliament on May 2 de Klerk ( who had announced the proposed all-party conference on April 18 — see p. 38131 ) said that he intended to go ahead with it with or without the ANC , which had set a deadline of May 9 for its demands to be met . |
| 5 | ‘ Hong Kong People Rule Hong Kong ’ : the slogan propagated by China during the 1982-84 sovereignty negotiations , to encourage popular local support for its demand that Britain withdraw completely from the administration of Hong Kong on 30 June 1997 . |
| 6 | Although the students have won converts to the notion that the riot police use excessive force , they have yet to win much support for their demands . |
| 7 | Indeed , the only politician to emerge from the strike with his credibility strengthened has been the president of Kazakhstan , Nursultan Nazarbaev , who was able to persuade local miners to return to work , promising better conditions and his support for their demands . |
| 8 | Well-organized , they achieved maximum publicity for their demands . |
| 9 | On May 24 the protesters took hostage the French consul-general and 10 oil company employees , apparently in an attempt to obtain French support for their demands . |
| 10 | Two years later , we published a second edition , Nobody 's Home , for which demand was even higher . |