Example sentences of "[was/were] asked what " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were asked what the ( say ) ‘ egg ’ was ‘ really , really ’ the three-year-olds answered correctly that it was a stone , but when asked what the object ‘ looks like to your eyes ’ they also said ‘ stone ’ . |
| 2 | When three-year-olds were asked what colour the card was really they typically said ‘ blue ’ . |
| 3 | In a Los Angeles Times poll in mid-December people were asked what policy they would support if Iraq pulled out of most of Kuwait but held on to an oilfield and some other land . |
| 4 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |
| 5 | They were asked what instruction they had received , whether they put drops in by themselves and if they had experienced any problems . |
| 6 | In a recent survey , finance directors were asked what change they would most like to see in corporate governance . |
| 7 | As Table 33 of Appendix 1 shows , when people were asked what factors they judged important in deciding on a particular type of credit they had chosen recently , the rate of interest was judged least important among the five factors suggested ( the others were cost of credit , convenience , amount of payment , and length of time over which payments are spread ) . |
| 8 | This exercise originated in 1906 when newly-elected Labour MPs were asked what books had influenced their political beliefs . |
| 9 | The assistants were asked what help and training they needed in order to carry out their duties more effectively , and both head and class teacher were asked to comment on the same issues independently . |
| 10 | The Church 's 2,500 bishops and prelates , heads of men 's religious orders ( though not of women 's ! ) , and faculties of some thirty-seven Catholic universities were asked what they thought were the major problems facing the Church . |
| 11 | A famous study of comparative political culture , based on research in 1959 and 1960 , revealed that , when Americans were asked what things they were most proud of in their country , 85 per cent had spon-taneously mentioned governmental and political institutions . |
| 12 | All the interviewees were asked what moved them to experiment with heroin in the first instance The largest group ( 33 per cent ) first tried heroin out of curiosity which , in most of the cases , had been aroused by the previous use of other drugs . |
| 13 | In the pub , after a meeting devoted to tasting home-made wine , Nigel and Simon were asked what they thought was the basis of conservatism . |
| 14 | Those who were not incontinent ( 3584 ) were asked what they thought they would do and how they would feel if they were incontinent . |
| 15 | ‘ If a gentleman of education , without legal training , were asked what is the meaning of a ‘ trust for charitable purposes ’ I think he would most probably reply ‘ That sounds like a legal phrase . |
| 16 | Also , when staff were asked what features of a text would cause them to reject its use as a class reader , ‘ sexism ’ was volunteered as one such reason by staff in three of the six schools visited . |
| 17 | The managers were asked what would be the level of production in the year 2000 . |
| 18 | Erm well I mean I think there 's some very fundamental issues in all this in , in the communication spectrum first of all using the phrase back to basics , what do people mean by that and that 's where the , they , they have gone wrong because the problem is that here we are , four people round this table and I 'm sure if all of us were asked what do we mean by getting back to basics , we 'll come out with a totally different you know set of things that meanings . |
| 19 | Those who were " Not sure " were asked what made it difficult to decide . |
| 20 | Cycling officers were asked what measures they used to reduce traffic speed and if they had a cycling programme . |
| 21 | Happily Lendl 's humour resurfaced when he was asked what difference marriage had made : ‘ Before I could do everything I wanted to do , now I have to ask . ’ |
| 22 | Lord Aldington was asked what he knew about the Yugoslavs who had been repatriated by the British Eight Army 's V Corps while he was chief of staff to its commander , General Sir Charles Keightley . |
| 23 | After the match he was asked what punishment he thought he might receive . |
| 24 | On the day itself , Norman Mailer , then a juror at the Cannes film festival , was asked what he thought of the movies on offer . |
| 25 | He held a press conference at the airport and was asked what he intended to do in Vienna . |
| 26 | Herr Alpeter , addressing a meeting in England , was asked what happened to dogs who did not fulfil the required standard for breeding in Germany ( a dog can win in the show ring and still be useless for breeding ) . |
| 27 | In the pub that evening the hero of the hour was asked what his French friends had said . |
| 28 | ‘ In one reminiscence session somebody brought in an old-fashioned Victorian commode , which looked like a chair , and the group was asked what it was . |
| 29 | ‘ I read that when Tom Watson was asked what made him such a successful player , he replied : ‘ Desire , dedication , determination and a little bit of talent . ’ |
| 30 | Yet when he was asked what went through his mind as he confronted the gunman , he replied with a joke . |