Example sentences of "[adj] demand for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The transactions-plus-precautionary demand for narrow money is more interest elastic than for broad money . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality . |
| 9 | Instead there will be a very high demand for liquid assets ( money and near money ) . |
| 10 | In pastoral areas a high demand for female labour persisted , and in the dairying regions even increased . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And high demand for basic inputs including oil provided an important condition for the 1973–4 oil crisis ( chapter 13 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In October of the same year , the major rural trade unions presented a joint demand for increased wages in harvest work . |
| 17 | Various complications arise , notably the fact that eurobond activities are typically only one business entered into by a conglomerate , the results of which may be hidden in its balance sheet ( though , given the importance of joint demand for fixed income business in general , total profits on the balance sheet may reflect the underlying profitability of eurobonds ) . |
| 18 | A summary of the results of the survey , compared to the previous year 's findings , will be published with the annual demand for local income tax , so that every resident is able to tell what their council is achieving with the money they pay . |
| 19 | There is tremendous demand for both parish council , both tran county councils for traffic calming in their villages . |
| 20 | A declining agricultural workforce may also have helped to convince local interests there was no real demand for rural council housing . |
| 21 | The report makes a fair attempt to assess the future demand for medical staff within these constraints but shies away from estimating the number of doctors required to provide both an acceptable service to patients and acceptable working conditions for doctors themselves . |
| 22 | America 's strengthening economy caused an increase in American demand for Japanese imports , while Japanese demand for foreign goods declined . |
| 23 | He claims that when oil companies were faced with the contradictory demand for speedy exploration and extraction and the requirements of safety they , with successive British governments ' blessing , chose speed . |
| 24 | The individual demand for good G is given by or |
| 25 | The Industrial Revolution , which created a vast demand for urban housing , made Welsh slate an almost universal roofing material , and by the middle of the nineteenth century some 16,000 men were working in the quarries , producing roofing slates called ‘ duchesses ’ and ‘ countesses ’ , among other titled ladies , according to their size . |
| 26 | Even curse tablets are limited to the human reactions to theft and perjury and the instant demand for painful retribution , echoed throughout the primitive world . |
| 27 | In addition , the housing policy does not apply to the outer isles where there is only a limited demand for new housing and where the absence of control is seen as a matter of benign neglect . |
| 28 | While the Liberal Democrats feel that Labour is at least making progress towards their central demand for proportional representation , the demand has met only outright hostility from the Tories . |
| 29 | No major concessions were made ; in particular , no ground was given to the Liberal demand for proportional representation to give minor parties a more enhanced position in the country . |
| 30 | Summer was the time when the town dwellers flocked to the countryside for their holidays and in winter the many ski activities ensured a constant demand for living quarters . |