Example sentences of "[noun sg] of demand for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When Sir Keith Joseph approved the rebuilding of St Augustine 's School , officers of the county council were still attempting to make out a case for the sale of the site based on their assessment of demand for places .
2 Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated .
3 Profit margins , however , are related to the level of demand for building work as well as fee competition .
4 SCSI cards can also be fitted to increase disk storage capacity , but the level of demand for graphics work suggests that a specialist graphics station ( Sun work-station or equivalent ) is likely to be needed by 1994 .
5 Secondly , there is the level of demand for labour locally , and , particularly , the demand for older workers with specific skills .
6 The very high level of demand for labour was maintained throughout the late sixties and early seventies by the trend of capital accumulation .
7 It is widely recognised that it is not production of food but the low level of demand for food that is the problem for many and for varied reasons related to the forces and relations of production in which people are involved .
8 Fluctuations in the level of demand for books were identified by dividing the time during which the Library is open to the public each day into periods of fifteen minutes , and by noting the number of requests submitted within each period .
9 However , although the level of demand for books fluctuated to a quite considerable extent throughout the day , Figures 10 and 11 also show that the mean delivery time for straightforward deliveries to readers of ‘ ordinary ’ items from the Main Building remained reasonably constant ( never rising above 17 minutes on weekdays , or 19 minutes on Saturdays ) , and that those variations which did occur bore no direct relationship to the level of demand , for some of the better mean delivery times were achieved a periods of high demand , and vice versa .
10 Since the level of investment measures the level of demand for means of production , the growth in the investment level measures the direct contribution of accumulation to the growth in markets .
11 The survey asked firms what sort of advice and assistance would be helpful in developing business and was surprised by the low level of demand for language training .
12 Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment .
13 In the case of demand for hotels , market segments would be tourist visitors and business travel .
14 In the case of demand for diesel engines for small boats : ( i ) one market segment could be demand for pleasure boats , which might vary with income per head of the population ; ( ii ) another segment could be demand for fishing boats , where demand might be dependent upon estimated sizes of fish haul , or length of coastline .
15 As noted , there are few long run effects given the negligible size of the lagged dependent variables — a point which shows in itself the instability of demand for issuance — the market tends to be subject to " feasts and famines " .
16 Even in Cramlington , the activities of the developer builders were seen largely in terms of providing a population to serve as the basis of demand for services , rather than , as was clearly the case for the public sector , in terms of providing housing so as to assemble a labour force for new industries .
17 Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures .
18 What is the nature of demand for health care and does it differ from demand for other services ?
19 The nature of demand for health care is considered below . )
20 But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity .
21 Limitation of Action — Statute , action on — Accrual of cause of action — Local authority notice to repair — Landlord failing to do work — Repairs carried out by local authority — Action to recover cost of repairs — Whether service of demand for payment prerequisite to or necessary ingredient of cause of action — Whether cause of action accruing on completion of work or service of demand — Housing Act 1957 ( c. 56 ) , s. 10(3) ( 4 ) — Limitation Act 1980 ( c. 58 ) , s. 9(1)
22 An alternative indicator of demand for labour is employers ' notification of vacancies .
23 The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) .
24 There is evidence that the character of demand for labour is changing , and that new investment is essentially capital-intensive and therefore unable to absorb much labour .
25 Moreover , it is necessary to remember that overall productivity will be affected by the pattern of demand for services ( because they vary in terms of their potential labour productivity ) as well as by the efficiency with which they are supplied .
26 Disagreement exists over the pattern of demand for coal , the kinds of supplies available and the best ways of meeting supply and demand .
27 Rapid changes in the pattern of demand for labour ( across regions or industries ) can also leave a residual of ‘ structural ’ unemployment in a context of intense labour shortage .
28 Other associated policy problems are pinpointed — for example , an increasing proportion of old people is assumed to imply a changing pattern of demand for housing , in the direction of smaller units .
29 Now we have consistently been somewhat sceptical about the genuineness of demand for land for industrial purposes .
30 David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan referred to more extensive usage , perhaps on a par or slightly more than Cadbury Schweppes , depending on timing of demand for staff .
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