Example sentences of "demand for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jordanian authorities were overwhelmed with demands for relief , especially food supplies , and the repatriation of foreign workers to their countries of origin . |
| 2 | But even the blind can make certain demands for consistency upon those with sight . |
| 3 | The closely associated demands for precision and clarity of expression both follow naturally from the falsificationist 's account of science . |
| 4 | Demands for troop withdrawal from Kaliningrad |
| 5 | It urged the East German leadership to respond to demands for freedom ‘ not with the police but with understanding and open-mindedness ’ . |
| 6 | Tears ( though thankfully no blood ) have been shed in our house trying to reconcile demands for freedom , adventure and excitement with worries over health , safety and expense . |
| 7 | At the same time , demands for freedom or greater autonomy are unlikely to be popular . |
| 8 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 9 | The other chroniclers are less explicit , but give a similar impression , complaints about servitude and oppression and demands for liberty bulking largely in their accounts . |
| 10 | At three of the five principal affected pits the strikers , whose demands for pay increases and reforms had been supported by the OPZZ union federation , agreed on Jan. 19 to return to work . |
| 11 | On Sept. 25 , 1989 , some 12,000 primary school teachers called off a three-week strike over demands for pay increases and dissatisfaction with job evaluation ; the government had withheld strikers ' salaries and threatened to dismiss those continuing industrial action . |
| 12 | On Oct. 5 , 1989 , prison officers agreed to return to work after a month-long strike affecting 70 of France 's 180 penal institutions over demands for pay parity with the police force . |
| 13 | Miners staged a two-hour strike on Nov. 5 to lend weight to their demands for pay increases and in protest against the effects of the economic reforms . |
| 14 | The subject continues to fuel Ukrainian and Belorussian demands for independence . |
| 15 | Their consummate skill in limiting demands for independence on the royal demesne , while favouring them elsewhere where a royal confirmation might create allies , has often been remarked . |
| 16 | Neither was the French Army , with its tradition of colonial service and following the humiliation of 1940 , ready to surrender to nationalist demands for independence . |
| 17 | The name was taken from the date in 1991 on which 14 people were killed by Soviet troops during the crisis over Lithuania 's demands for independence from the USSR [ see pp. 37944-45 ] . |
| 18 | They try to maintain a rough balance across the liquidity range , but the precise composition of assets will vary as interest rates on the various assets vary , and as the demands for liquidity vary . |
| 19 | students , and external researchers , are likely to increase the demands for literature searching using online databases . |
| 20 | The demands for text-processing are likely to increase , as the diversity and number of publishing projects increases , and it is hard to see how the present staffing level will cope with the likely workload . |
| 21 | Demands for capital are still high until our infrastructure is up to standard ; that is why we are not all as rich as some would like to make out . |
| 22 | Citrine and Self hoped that the rise was temporary and would be reversed ( wedded , as always , to a philosophy of cheap capital and low prices , and the world as they hoped it would be again ) , but high interest rates continued to reflect the buoyant competing demands for capital and mild inflationary tendencies in the UK economy . |
| 23 | Along with these improvements in the market , we see demands for vessel safety , concern for the environment , all oil spillages have highlighted the need to have modern ships with the right design . |
| 24 | In recent years , by far the most important item has been individual demands for back payment of overtime earnings following court decisions on the method of calculating the hourly overtime rate . |
| 25 | THE Hampshire Playing Fields Association have just launched a £250,000 public appeal to enable them to respond to the ever-increasing demands for support of sport and recreational projects throughout the county . |
| 26 | There is no doubt at all that where there are reductions er , particularly at the edge of our statutory responsibilities , this inevitably we know , generates more demands for support from central services , particularly legal , where we are then brought into dispute , and there are complaint machinery , and other processes brought into play . |
| 27 | The press campaign and the Falangist demands for retribution were perfectly consonant with Franco 's own view of the 9 February events . |
| 28 | Demands for reduction of presidential term |
| 29 | Computing will become a larger part of the course from 1992 onwards , arising out of the Course Review , and there are likely to be increasing demands for specialist hardware ( plotters ) , software ( spreadsheets , databases , graphics ) , and improved access to scientific and horticultural data through better communications . |
| 30 | For although there was work here , there had never been enough to supply the desperate horde which had applied for it , choking this ancient heart of the town to death with its demands for air and space and water , overwhelming its sanity resources , clogging its sewage channels , fouling its canal , draining its reservoirs . |