Example sentences of "[adj] demand for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |
| 2 | It is in their faith in " ordinary " people , whose qualities were far from ordinary in Wordsworth 's eyes , that we find the justification for political demands for popular power or a wider franchise . |
| 3 | Finally , Winkler claims that administration in the corporatist state engages in the exploitation of ‘ extra-legal power ’ by orchestrating private demands for public action . |
| 4 | As popular demands for political reform intensified , President Kenneth Kaunda on Sept. 24 , at a session of the ruling UNIP national council , recommended the reintroduction of a multiparty system and the holding of free elections by October 1991 . |
| 5 | In addition , popular demands for greater democracy and accountability in government , inspired by changes in eastern Europe in the course of 1989 , were being heard , notably in Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire [ see pp. 37445 ] . |
| 6 | As a response to popular demands for greater democracy , Habyarimana in November announced plans to abandon one-party rule and set up a review commission , whose brief was to make recommendations on the country 's future political system . |
| 7 | Moreover , public demands for federal action were fulfilled with the enactment of major environmental legislation . |
| 8 | They therefore had no wish to be restricted by British manoeuvring for postwar influence , and were unsympathetic to British demands for international control . |
| 9 | Considerable public pressure is being put on governments and large companies to utilise energy sources other than nuclear power for industry and commerce , and there are strident demands for stricter supervision to prevent accidents and to monitor the disposal of nuclear waste products . |
| 10 | VIOLENT crime in Scotland has escalated sharply , with a rapid growth in the most serious offences producing figures likely to lead to fresh demands for urgent action by the police and the Government . |
| 11 | THE LOCAL environment of the Arabian peninsula makes large-scale agricultural exploitation difficult , so the inhabitants have always had to capitalise on foreign demand for available resources . |
| 12 | An income elasticity of demand for imports which was higher than the corresponding change in foreign demand for British goods imposed a serious balance of payments constraint because of the requirement to maintain a fixed exchange rate . |
| 13 | In his book he played with various figures — unemployment equal to vacancies , vacancies greater than the number of unemployed — and settled for 3% unemployment ( 1% frictional , 1% seasonal and 1% for the unavoidable variations in foreign demand for British goods ) . |
| 14 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 15 | The Dutch company 's small production plant at Weert will be able to continue running efficiently while supplying the diminishing demand for both companies — small amounts of CFCs will still be permitted in essential medical uses after the deadline . |
| 16 | The transactions-plus-precautionary demand for narrow money is more interest elastic than for broad money . |
| 17 | A British Trade and Industry Minister , Kenneth Clarke , argued that Hermes ( the French-inspired shuttle project ) was too costly and that there was no commercial demand for manned space flights . |
| 18 | The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality . |
| 19 | Instead there will be a very high demand for liquid assets ( money and near money ) . |
| 20 | In pastoral areas a high demand for female labour persisted , and in the dairying regions even increased . |
| 21 | Thus , if the prevailing interest rate is low , the theory predicts a low demand for bonds and , consequently , a high demand for speculative money balances . |
| 22 | And high demand for basic inputs including oil provided an important condition for the 1973–4 oil crisis ( chapter 13 ) . |
| 23 | On the other hand , when television coverage of unemployment almost ceased in the third week , public demand for political debate on the issue also dropped slightly , from 66 per cent to 56 per cent , and it remained at this new lower level thereafter . |
| 24 | There is growing public demand for increased information on food labels according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) . |
| 25 | The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads . |
| 26 | The widening of the EEC argued for greater awareness of the European market and the need for both young people and businesses to face the real demands for new skills , greater knowledge of other languages and more mobility in moving throughout other countries . |
| 27 | Those who want equal time for creation science in biology classes might as well make similar demands for Flat Earth theory in astronomy classes . |
| 28 | The ruling Central African Democratic Assembly ( Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain-RDC ) had on May 14 , 1990 rejected demands for multiparty democracy . |
| 29 | The anticipated rejection of Japanese demands for radical reforms was used by Japan to provoke hostilities , and in late July the Japanese sunk a British ship chartered to carry Chinese reinforcements . |
| 30 | However , on the demand side , the influences ( whatever their relative strengths ) of genetic inheritance and other environmental variables will make individual demands for human capital differ . |