Example sentences of "demand for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banning importation , for example , often creates a market and demand for something else . |
| 2 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 3 | Demand for their product was unceasing , and their labour was steady and safe . |
| 4 | So as prostitutes are being deterred from Swindon by big fines and clear up campaigns , they 're taking the problem elsewhere ; to the cities like London , where the fines are low and demand for their work is high . |
| 5 | Chile and Argentina were both offered barter deals , involving the exchange of Chilean nitrates ( demand for which had recently collapsed because of German development of synthetic substitutes ) and Argentine agricultural products for Soviet crude oil , along with assistance in the setting up of their own national refineries . |
| 6 | King described it as ‘ a phenomenal card ’ but really it was an opportunity to promote a war of words between two of the fighters , Chavez and Norris , to build up anticipation and demand for them to meet in the ring . |
| 7 | Since then a report of the Royal College of Physicians has also emphasised the need for a comprehensive approach to the problem which takes account of the wide range of factors influencing both the supply of tobacco products and demand for them by young people . |
| 8 | These have proved difficult if not impossible to pin down in any precise terms and demand for them appears to be similarly volatile … . |
| 9 | Tindal C.J. in that case gave as examples of permissible retaking by A from the land of an innocent person , C , ( a ) where the goods have come there by accident ; ( b ) where they have been feloniously taken by B and A follows them to C's land ; ( c ) where C refuses to deliver up the goods or to make any answer to A's demand for them . |
| 10 | The same situation arises time and time again , as new medical techniques are developed and demand for them rises . |
| 11 | The problem is one which affects all libraries which follow a responsible programme of binding , since , for reasons both of conservation and security , serial parts must be bound as early as possible , with the result that they tend to become unavailable for consultation at a time when demand for them is relatively high . |
| 12 | Demand for its books is confined almost entirely to women who , according to Harlequin , tend to spend more of their leisure time reading than men do . |
| 13 | But just as women now demand for themselves greater freedom to express different facets of the self , so too do some men , although not nearly so many of them . |
| 14 | In London , demand for our Home Care services doubled over the last twelve months . |
| 15 | Demand for our brands already exists in these areas , and as their economies develop , so will the opportunities they offer . |
| 16 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 17 | Gas is an environmentally-friendly fuel and demand for it is increasing . |
| 18 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 19 | If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it . |
| 20 | ‘ Confidence in R&T is related to results , and demand for it is recognition of its potential . |