Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] by asking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers are not allowed to take advantage of your Work Experience by asking you to do jobs which should receive payment . |
| 2 | This might be a good way of raising funds by asking people particularly for the Euros I think . |
| 3 | One teacher organised a sorting game by asking each child in the group to choose and bring a toy from around the room ; there was a farm lorry , a helicopter , a golliwog , a breakdown lorry , a helmet and a domino brick . |
| 4 | A BID to ease mortgage misery by asking for a bigger share of Government cash has suffered a setback . |
| 5 | We need therefore to qualify the existence of pluralist interest group activity by asking about differing degrees of influence and this is one of the main themes in Chapters 4 and 5 . |
| 6 | In the 1960s , Holmes and Rahe developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale by asking 400 healthy people to rank 42 major life events according to the amount of readjustment each requires . |
| 7 | It cleared him by 10 votes to three of a charge that he had received bribes from Koskotas , and by nine votes to four of a charge that he had embezzled state funds by asking the Ministry of Finance to write off illegally debts owed by an Athens hotelier , Socrates Kalkanis . |
| 8 | However , I do not want to offend my local church organist by asking her to step down . |
| 9 | Shainess , for instance , begins her consideration of gender psychology by asking , ‘ Who is Eve ? ’ ( 1970 : 257 ) . |
| 10 | With the support of the committee , the librarian had attempted to keep track of books specifically purchased with the project funds by asking users to mark " P " against titles consulted or borrowed . |
| 11 | He recommends training children by asking them to tell you where they think its safe to cross , or when there 's a safe gap in traffic . |
| 12 | Section 11(1) applies the test of reasonableness to an exemption clause by asking whether it is a " fair and reasonable [ exemption clause ] to be included having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made " . |