Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be be ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that I am being asked a question on my meeting yesterday with the UKIAS executive council , and I have no doubt that other hon. Members have tabled questions . |
| 2 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 3 | he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place . |
| 4 | The point is that although book knowledge is in itself a good thing , it is useless and worse than useless if it deflects your attention from the question that you are being asked . |
| 5 | for it is in secondary education , and in the transition from secondary education to the next stage , that we are being asked to admit the failure of the system , whether this is measured by parental dissatisfaction or by the number of school and university leavers who do not satisfy their potential employers . |
| 6 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
| 7 | That shows the standard of the management that we are being asked to endorse if we pass the Bill . |
| 8 | So if we do under-fund , and I 'm not suggesting in these proposals that there is any major under-funding in the proposals in front of you this morning , but the dangers of under-funding are that , inevitably they will first impact on the end that we are being asked to develop as alternatives . |
| 9 | Even the Commission acknowledges that 10 per cent of the EC 's annual budget — about £3 billion — is still being lost in fraud ; it is a point the British will not forbear to mention now that they are being asked to pay an extra £1 billion per year into EC coffers . |
| 10 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 11 | Union chiefs and angry workers are already threatening a bitter Winter of Discontent , furious that they are being asked to pay the price for economic recovery . |
| 12 | Prosecution barrister Mr Charles Barton has told the jury that they are being asked to decide if Hagans raped Mrs McGurk , even though he admitted killing her , for three reasons — in the interests of the defendant , in the interests of Anna McGurk and her family , and in the interests of putting the record straight . |
| 13 | Yet there was also growing disquiet about the evident failure to bring a quick resolution of the war , and even more threatening for Johnson 's political support , a feeling amongst working people that they were being asked to make the heaviest sacrifices . |
| 14 | Outside ILT those who were working with bilingual students in general community and adult education also found that they were being asked to provide language awareness training for groups who had contact with their students , e.g. health workers , careers advisers , librarians , workers in advice agencies . |
| 15 | I interpret it that erm parents saw that they were being asked to do something false , and if I can just correct you on something , these were n't the Governors ' proposals to seek opting out , they were the proposals of a group of parents , some of whom happen to be parent-Governors , but when the Governors themselves came to vote on whether we thought |
| 16 | Speaking on BBC TV 's Election Call programme , he said he could not provide ‘ an in-all-circumstances ’ undertaking on how his party would react , saying that he was being asked ‘ how I would play as a batsman the third ball in the fourth over after next . ’ |
| 17 | Then the Dutch representative in his turn alleged that he was being asked to accept a position implying mere equality with that of the duke of Savoy , which was contrary to his instructions : he therefore also refused to attend . |