Example sentences of "ask what [be] " in BNC.

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1 The need for some kind of frame of reference for thinking about the curriculum , and asking what is and should be taught is most obvious in the schools .
2 Asking what is the capacity for such an expansion , in practical terms , we must conclude that the available evidence suggests that it would require a transformation that would be nothing short of miraculous .
3 Already I can hear you asking what is a combi-steamer ?
4 It 's proper that we should be asking in the context of these proposals for boundary changes , affected as they are by the decision of the er first of all the French national assembly and now the French government to make life difficult for the other member states as far as the ratification of these proposals are concerned , it 's right that we should be asking what is the position of the British government in relation to these matters .
5 ‘ Maybe I should be asking what 's so extra important about it to you . ’
6 I 'm asking what 's the legal position in that ?
7 They gather round , tentatively asking what 's wrong .
8 Instead of letting our success lead us into a fat-cat mentality , it led us much more strongly and much faster into a mentality of asking what are we going to do with it .
9 I ought to explain that in this talk I am not attacking fundamentalism as such — I am in fact asking what are its strengths , weaknesses and challenges .
10 Ullman thus attempts to follow Lloyd Morgan 's Canon , asking what are the minimal computational processes that need to be posited to explain motion-perception .
11 I want to start by asking what are the risks that the Delors plan — the origin of European economic and monetary union — will suffer the same fate as the Werner plan did 20 years ago .
12 The police at Southampton had got in touch with Bath , asking what was to be done with the bike , as it had apparently been abandoned .
13 But you will perhaps understand that there was a natural tendency on my part , in asking what was after all a generous favour from my employer , to hint that there was a good professional motive behind my request .
14 I kept asking what was wrong .
15 People that knew me were asking what was wrong with me , they were shocked at the state of me .
16 Kandel and his colleagues began by asking what was the neural circuit which underlies the gill and siphon withdrawal response .
17 ‘ I wanted to prepare them for it , not leave it to the last two weeks with people asking what was happening .
18 For example , they ask what are the strategic implications to the total company of various competitive actions .
19 Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects .
20 Where they ask what are your vital signs , they do n't mean have you got a pulse or high blood pressure , they mean have you got Access or Visa .
21 Ask what 's so special about a Club 18–30 holiday and you 'll get dozens of different answers , if not hundreds .
22 And they ask what 's jazz got to do with it .
23 Er I often ask what 's life like , and the funny thing I 've got a son in it now , I 've got a son who 's a station officer in , in Colchester , and my daughter just married a fireman from , from Road so , so we 're still involved
24 Ask what is available in your area .
25 If you ask what is the worst that might foreseeably happen , the answer at the start of 1991 is bleaker than for many years past .
26 If neither the disciplinary rules nor the warning itself provide this information , ask what is intended .
27 Then change the arrangement of the pile and ask what is the new number .
28 I ask what is being taught in our schools , and in our seminaries ?
29 If there is n't , ask what is a realistic period in which you can expect your accounts to be paid , add a margin of 50 per cent and allow for this in your profit margins and liquidity levels .
30 We consider the real challenges to society of having more octogenarians , nonagenarians , and centenarians in its ranks , and ask what is likely to be involved in meeting them .
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