Example sentences of "[was/were] asked [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one test , different responses were noted of pupils who were asked to explain their methods of working out their answers to a question about a set of related patterns of tiles . |
| 2 | They were asked to use their influence with local officials to get the water supply re-connected to the £1 million villa rented by Mona Bauwens . |
| 3 | On 17 February , pollution levels in Tehran reached such a high level that citizens were asked to stop their cars and stay in their houses . |
| 4 | In a recent study performed by the authors , however , old people who lived at home were asked to record their habits each day ( times of waking , eating , visiting friends , sleeping , etc ) for a ‘ typical week ’ . |
| 5 | Patients assigned to receive steroids consumed an unrestricted diet and were asked to record their food intake during the first four weeks . |
| 6 | THE tiny tots of St Kieran 's Nursery School were asked to pick their favourite ditties . |
| 7 | In Libet 's experiment , subjects were asked to move their hands at random times of their own choosing . |
| 8 | If they were asked to describe their partner 's motions at such times , they would be embarrassed . |
| 9 | Some classes were asked to describe their methods for calculating answers to questions . |
| 10 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 11 | The competitors were asked to base their designs on ideas of function , while also producing works which followed the lines of modern domestic interiors . |
| 12 | Both speakers gave papers on the employment of women in printing , and such local interest was aroused that they were asked to repeat their lectures in Edinburgh a few days later . |
| 13 | found that when eight-year-olds were asked to justify their judgements , they showed a strong tendency to refer to information about generative transmission , even in conditions where they were supplied only with information about temporal order . |
| 14 | Supporters in the west were asked to give their first preference to Harry West and their second to John Taylor ; those in the east , vice versa . |
| 15 | Those who believed were asked to give their verdict on major psychic phenomena . |
| 16 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 17 | Most of those consulted by the Commission are Anglican and they were asked to give their views on ten specific points . |
| 18 | The pupils were observed and assessed as they participated in their modern language classes , and their parents and teachers were asked to give their comments on a variety of aspects of the modern language curriculum . |
| 19 | The traders were asked to give their grievences . |
| 20 | During treatment , patients were asked to consult their study physician if they had side effects . |
| 21 | In the national audience research survey I conducted in 1970–73 , listeners were asked to state their favourite programme or programmes . |
| 22 | Staff were asked to rate their overall impression of the Back Office system but , as can be see from the branch perception graph , at the beginning of this year the measure was split to get a clearer understanding of branches ' perception of availability and response times . |
| 23 | Respondents were asked to rate their satisfaction with various aspects of lawyers ' services and facilities on a scale of one to five , where ‘ one ’ equates to ‘ not at all satisfied ’ and ‘ five ’ to ‘ very satisfied ’ . |
| 24 | Thus , in a sense , the Jews were asked to perpetuate their own myth in the terms in which the Greeks had invented it . |
| 25 | They were asked to monitor their progress not only with scales but with a tape measure . |
| 26 | When groups of staff in a local comprehensive school ( departments , year teams and a whole-school management group ) were asked to identify their own performance indicators , two things soon became apparent : |
| 27 | Respondents were asked to indicate their requirements for catering facilities . |
| 28 | It was based on the construction of a questionnaire , the Parental Attitude Research Inventory ( PARI ) , in which parents were asked to indicate their agreement with such statements as ‘ A child will be grateful later on for strict training , ’ and ‘ Children should realize how much parents have to give up for them . ’ |
| 29 | Colleges wishing to participate were asked to indicate their intention by submitting a ‘ Request for Approval in Principle to Participate in the 1989 Pilot Programme ’ ( Form HN1 ) . |
| 30 | They were asked to write their statements down as quickly as possible and to answer as though describing themselves to themselves rather than to anybody else . |