Example sentences of "he be asked by " in BNC.
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| 1 | SDLP leader Mr John Hume said that the first question he is asked by potential investors is : ‘ Will we be safe in Northern Ireland ? ’ |
| 2 | When he arrives for his pleasure he is asked by the girl 's mother : ( " Have you brought the goods that you are to give to my girl ? " ) |
| 3 | The managing director who enjoys high status of both types will have to shift his roles and expectations when he 's asked by the rest of the board to answer criticism of company performance . |
| 4 | Four years later , as chairman of BAe , he was asked by the government to prepare the group for privatisation . |
| 5 | This was precisely the approach Pearce adopted when he was asked by the Conservative Government to become chairman of British Aerospace in 1980 to prepare it for privatisation . |
| 6 | ‘ Who 's Dunster ? ’ he was asked by Anna Ford . |
| 7 | He was asked by the friar who opened the gate to him , ‘ What do you wish ? ’ |
| 8 | The manager of the Ljubljana branch of the Belgrade Bank has revealed that he was asked by a high official of the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina to purchase 3 billion dinars of Agrokomerc bills of exchange ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 9 | He was asked by a pressman one day which position he considered to be Billy Turner 's best . |
| 10 | He was asked by a TODAY reporter — the first in his shop after it was revealed that Norman Lamont had spent £17.47 at a Thresher 's — what the Chancellor had bought . |
| 11 | When Jesus was on trial , he was asked by Pilate , ‘ Are you a king ? ’ |
| 12 | He was asked by the Production Manager , J D Pearson , to redesign any part of the engine where the unskilled and semi-skilled staff were producing a high proportion of scrap . |
| 13 | CHARLTON Heston was at a Republican party rally when he was asked by one of those ghastly eight-year-old American kids for his autograph . |
| 14 | As he hurried from his chauffeur-driven car he was asked by reporters : ‘ Are you going to resign ? ’ |
| 15 | After the case he was asked by a reporter if he would offer advice to other hitch-hikers . |
| 16 | When Gardiner was considering the Royal Commission 's Report he was asked by its Secretary if he appreciated that , for the first time , a Minister would become answerable to Parliament for the working of the higher courts , including the delays and other initial setbacks that might be expected . |
| 17 | When he was asked by the BBC in November to broadcast a " personal anthology " of poems , he chose those , he said , which had remained in his memory for reasons which were mysterious to him : John Dryden 's " To the Memory of Mr Oldham , Samuel Johnson 's " On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet " , Rudyard Kipling 's " Danny Deever " , Edgar Allan Poe 's " For Annie " and the six lines from Shelley which begin " Art thou pale for weariness . |
| 18 | He had started the Venturers ' Society in 1945 , when he was asked by some boys to take them on a visit down a coal mine , and on Mr. Horn 's retirement in 1959 had taken over the Railway Society too . |
| 19 | One day — so the story goes — whilst staying on a walking and fishing holiday with friends , he was asked by the village schoolmistress to mind a group of local children . |
| 20 | In September 1987 he was asked by an acquaintance called Jit Ballay to supply goods from the shop and to accept payment by two stolen building society cheques , one for £7,950 and the other for £9,250 , which were undated and bore no payee 's name . |
| 21 | It arises out of Welsh questions and the Secretary of State for Wales ' answer to the question that he was asked by my Hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) . |
| 22 | On the outbreak of World War II he sought re-employment without success , until in April 1940 he was asked by General W. E. ( later first Baron ) Ironside [ q.v. ] to go to Malta , as governor and commander-in-chief , in the rank of lieutenant-general . |
| 23 | That was the question that he was asked by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 24 | However Mr Stevens ' visit to Belfast and his trip to see Nelson has prompted speculation that he was asked by Sir Hugh to go over details of the Finucane murder again with Nelson in case something was overlooked in the original investigation . |
| 25 | Was that the one in which he was asked by Ni not Nick , but the News at Ten chap |
| 26 | I understand there are problems er but as a general principle it does seem to me that it 's something that needs to be looked at and the minister has said that a lot of these matters will be dealt with by a statement of practice and er he was asked by the honourable gentleman , the member for South Hams I think , er er er what the status of er these people were . |
| 27 | Professional Footballers ' Association leader Gordon Taylor spoke out about this type of body blow in last week 's ‘ Soccer In Crisis ’ investigation when he was asked by the Echo over spiralling players ' wages . |