Example sentences of "they [was/were] then asked " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were then asked what they liked least about Funchal ; 3 1.7 per cent said the pollution and 15.8 per cent the noise and confusion in the city . |
| 2 | They were then asked what sort of interest rate they would expect to pay there ( Table 49b ) . |
| 3 | They were then asked to recall the story they had just seen in either sign ( deaf and bilinguals ) or in speech ( hearing people ) . |
| 4 | They were then asked why they could not raise the money by staying at home and working on the land . |
| 5 | We do not know what the consultants originally said when they first produced a draft for the promoter , and what they were then asked to add afterwards to make it a little more toothsome for the promoters , to make it a safer version of the environmental impact assessment . |
| 6 | They were then asked to complete a short Likert-type scale concerning their attitudes towards Oxfordshire 's review and reporting process . |
| 7 | If they were unable to describe it they were then asked whether it was of a particular type . |
| 8 | They were then asked to participate after a full explanation of the aims and methods of the study , and all gave informed consent . |
| 9 | They were then asked to listen to the voices a second time and say whether each was " black , white or other " , giving a confidence rating . |
| 10 | However , they were then asked to put circles around every word or phrase in the passage that they considered to belong to the genre of SF ( all choices made have been italicised in the passage above ) . |