Example sentences of "with demands for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The world economic market seemed to be saturated with demands for goods which the machine could not supply .
2 3 Local authorities were faced with demands for improvements in service from local community groups .
3 The Jordanian authorities were overwhelmed with demands for relief , especially food supplies , and the repatriation of foreign workers to their countries of origin .
4 Great publicity was given to their allegations in the British press , with demands for government action .
5 To persuade their clients of the merits of the extension , the DLC salon is holding monthly wig parties , and punters are already swamping them with demands for afros and bouffant , bum-length Dolly Parton styles .
6 into the classroom and the school with demands for relevance , practicality , competence , technique …
7 The plum tasks for which the Great and Good might be chosen are Royal Commissions or Committees of Inquiry , the device by which governments buy the days when faced with demands for change , political embarrassment , or questions too deep for quick political answers .
8 By building the picture up slowly in this way , the patient is not suddenly confronted with demands for details before he has settled comfortably into the personality and environment of the person he once was .
9 With demands for devolution resurfacing , this problem is unlikely to go away in the foreseeable future .
10 Although there is a school of thought that , if the vendor is besieged with questions , its management will be too occupied to negotiate with anyone other than the purchaser , it is important to consider who is operating the business if the full time attention of senior management is taken up with demands for information .
11 A London elocution teacher , Edwina Pickett ( inundated with demands for lessons ) , adds , ‘ I get girls who want to marry well , who do n't want to marry a lorry driver . ’
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