Example sentences of "authority have asked " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has asked me how the discount system , as distinct from the rebate system , will work . |
| 2 | Now the health authority has asked the community and mental health unit to appoint four physiotherapists who will take patients referred directly to them by GPs . |
| 3 | Mr Chris Spry , for the London Ambulance Service , said that the South West Thames regional health authority had asked for the army 's help . |
| 4 | Any mistake of law would mean that the authority had asked itself the wrong question , which would result in a jurisdictional error . |
| 5 | Cornwall County Council and the National Rivers Authority have asked for more information but have been refused by the MOD on the grounds that there is insufficient evidence to merit further investigation |
| 6 | Scientists from the National Rivers Authority have asked local people at Mablethorpe , Lincolnshire , to donate their discarded Christmas trees to help find a cure for Britain 's eroding beaches . |
| 7 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 8 | The church and the French diplomatic authorities have asked the federal police to take over the investigations , but the state police have already arrested two men and accused them of the crime . |
| 9 | Also the sporting community in South Africa is now uncomfortably aware that their cricketing authorities have asked far too much of their players this year . |