Example sentences of "be ask to make a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Should they be asked to make a contribution to the tea fund ?
2 And they worry that they will be asked to make a contribution if the WIPers use up the DM600 million now allocated to the programme .
3 A spokesman for Cheshire County Council 's social services department said : ‘ At present there are many people who do not pay , so they need to be asked to make a contribution to cater for those care needs .
4 Amaranth , who was by now terrified by her audacity , asked her what would happen next , and was told she would be asked to make a statement , and possibly be examined by a lady doctor .
5 In 1953–54 the figure of 2,982 , down from 3,151 in the previous year , dismayed the District Secretary , especially since branches had been asked to make a drive to recruit new members in Jubilee Year , 1953 .
6 Looking at it another way , imagine that you have been asked to make a bookcase in a craft lesson .
7 The first meeting takes place this week and I am asked to make a presentation to the Committee which was set up by the minister of finance . ’
8 Charges are levied for treatment in Edinburgh and Aberdeen , couples are asked to make a donation in Dundee and the service is free in Glasgow .
9 The Famous Grouse , like all the 1991 World Cup sponsors , had a first refusal option included in their contract ; in other words they are asked to make a bid for 1995 before the marketing agent goes to the open market .
10 Councillors in Central Region are being asked to make a pledge to fight racism .
11 Several months later , Batty was asked to make a film about any successful British company to redress criticism that television programme makers were obsessed by those in difficulties , of which there were many in the Seventies .
12 In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 .
13 But after she had been there three weeks , she was asked to make a house call .
14 In October 1939 he caught a feverish cold ; he was altogether melancholy and restless , and when at the end of the year he was asked to make a radio broadcast , he refused because he could think of nothing to say .
15 In May , Burton was asked to make a path in lieu of the church path to Kentish Town which crossed the College grounds .
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