Example sentences of "asked [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of Parliament are being asked about such matters as their degree of satisfaction with the quantity and quality of financial information available to them and the extent to which they feel that MPs can and should be closely involved in scrutinising the management of government , together with their ‘ unstructured ’ personal response to the problem of the control of the public administration by the House of Commons . |
| 2 | I talk about these things because I 'm asked about these things . |
| 3 | The question that needs to be asked about these results is do they demonstrate the function of the context as a retrieval cue or can they be explained away in other terms ? |
| 4 | Clarification of this distinction would enable the correct questions to be asked about those interventions that are provided although a need does not exist ( reducing inappropriate care ) and those interventions that are not provided although they are demanded and can be shown to be needed ( rationing ) . |
| 5 | However , at all times questions have been asked for all sorts of reasons , ranging from the sheer desire for information to an attempt to trip up the Prime Minister on a major policy issue . |
| 6 | Many parents comment that their child did the complete opposite of what was asked for several months and so the parents learned to say the opposite of what they wanted , for example , ‘ I really do n't want you to put your pyjamas on now ’ , or ‘ I do n't think you can eat all of that food ’ . |
| 7 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |
| 8 | You know what you should have done while you was up there this time you should have took asked for some samples . |
| 9 | He has never asked for any favours and , on the field , he 's never given any either . |
| 10 | There , she had n't actually asked for any favours . |
| 11 | I have n't asked for any favours from you . ’ |
| 12 | I have asked for those figures , and apparently none exist . |
| 13 | The Minister will know that I and other Leicestershire Members from all parts of the House have continually asked for more officers to be allocated to Leicestershire . |
| 14 | ‘ There were totally unacceptably delays and quite recently the Boards lodged a full statement of claims with lawyers for McDonnell Douglas , They have asked for more details , and these have now been given . |
| 15 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 16 | During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been asked on many occasions if we could have more modern replacements for our 12-year-old sail designs . |
| 18 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 19 | It was asked on these words whether the lands should be regarded as left by trust . |
| 20 | Alison Binks , financial adviser , puts this down to the suspension of stamp duty and realistic selling prices now being asked by most vendors . |
| 21 | The inflated fee being asked by some clubs for players of ordinary ability is ridiculous . ’ |
| 22 | We were asked by some teachers for a ‘ follow-up session to be included in a Q.T. Day . |
| 23 | We were asked by some teachers for a ‘ follow-up session to be included in a Q.T. Day . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Gary Klesch , the American financier , has been asked by some bondholders to act on their behalf in the refinancing negotiations . |