Example sentences of "[prep] [be] ask [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamish Deans rose to his feet early in the meeting to read a statement after being asked about the charges laid by the police . |
| 2 | I came to this conclusion after being asked by a student for some information on Occitan . |
| 3 | The ceremony , as a religious ceremony , is a mockery , yet as a social ceremony , with the gathering of relatives and friends , the honour of being asked to be godparents , the tea-party afterwards and the christening presents given ( silver objects in particular ) , the whole thing has a significant place in the lives of the people concerned . |
| 4 | I was interviewed recently and I mentioned the long-term effects of being asked about drugs in interviews . |
| 5 | He also underwent the unique experience of being asked by successive governments to take a hand in both the nationalisation of British Aerospace and its subsequent return to the private sector . |
| 6 | provision for both block and individual exemptions from the prohibition , following the example of Article 85(3) ; the test to be applied is that of technical or economic improvement ; a general public-interest criterion is specifically excluded , despite being asked for by , among others , the professions which are to be included in the scope of the legislation , unlike the existing Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 ; |
| 7 | Upon being asked about this , one policeman explained , ‘ To tell you the truth I did n't notice much of a difference . |
| 8 | The first question to be asked of the slimming thesis is , why do people , especially young girls , want to become slim ? |
| 9 | It is interesting to note , in passing , that most of them are questions that have to be asked of primary data as well . |
| 10 | the movement which , at the close of the colonial era , led it to be asked of the West what entitles its culture , its science , its social organization , and finally its rationality itself , to be able to claim universal validity : was this not a mirage associated with economic domination and political hegemony ? |
| 11 | In other words , exactly the questions the nation wishes to be asked of its visiting rock stars . |
| 12 | But he is certainly not interested in exploiting this angle and is bemused to be asked about his background : ‘ Well … |
| 13 | But he does not wait to be asked about the Palestinians . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | In short , if the LDDC is seen to epitomize the UDCs , then there are questions to be asked about the effectiveness of this form of intervention . |
| 16 | In effect , it is as if the woman making the bar magnets suddenly realized that there were more questions to be asked about her job ; that pressing the button was not really much of an answer to the question ‘ How do you make magnets ? ’ |
| 17 | There are also important questions to be asked about the reasons for admission to residential care in the first place , for that in itself is an aspect of dependency . |
| 18 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 19 | Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry ( it can not be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive ) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering . |
| 20 | These are the key questions to be asked about reciprocity within families , both historical and contemporary . |
| 21 | War , indeed , caused questions to be asked about the nobility 's role in it . |
| 22 | Drawing on Reid 's thinking , Halpin ( 1980 ) poses four questions to be asked about the approach to curriculum review advocated by the HMI in Curriculum 11–16 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | She would n't mention the boy who 'd made trouble unless for some reason she happened to be asked about him , and she felt she would not be . |
| 25 | I Lawrie to be asked about Altos terminal security system . |
| 26 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 27 | But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation : |
| 28 | It is helpful , for example , to look at past questions , bearing in mind that there is usually only a limited range of possible questions which are likely to be asked about any given topic . |
| 29 | The case has been taken up by Sligo TD Declan Bree , who said serious questions may have to be asked about how British intelligence knew about Mr Fox 's movements , since he travelled through Dublin on his way to Spain . |
| 30 | But Cleveland County Council 's development chairman said ‘ very serious questions ’ had to be asked about the plan for the Marton area . |