Example sentences of "asked to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of impro in training has gone through many phases ; it still conjures up the traditional , hackneyed image of a student being asked to be a tree or an icecream . |
| 2 | Asked to be left alone with the glass for a while . |
| 3 | Each of these is asked to be part of the community and yet to develop her own specialization . |
| 4 | A government spokesman said Professor Guido de Marco , Foreign Minister , had received a letter from his Libyan counterpart informing him that the two bomb suspects had asked to be tried in Malta , and asking Malta to accede to this request . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Queen Charlotte had asked to be the dedicatee of some of Mozart 's works which Leopold duly had engraved at his own expense ( K.10–15 , sonatas for keyboard and violin or flute and 'cello , published as op.III ) . |
| 6 | If the sessions are done in the home , family or friends will be asked to be reasonably quiet , and not to turn the radio or television up , or have noisy conversations . |
| 7 | I was asked to be discreet as the lady in question , a possible grand-daughter living on the island , was of affluent mien and might not like to be reminded of her origins . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The reason why you are asked to be restrained in drinking calorific drinks is that these , even more than refined carbohydrate foods , have the opposite effect from fibre-rich foods in nearly all those steps in the consumption process which influence your degree of hunger . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've bin asked to be in the play . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then she was asked to be the local carnival queen . |
| 12 | The former Dutch captain had asked to be left out of the squad in September . |
| 13 | After four years of unusually low rainfall , most UK water reserves are low , and many areas have hosepipe and sprinkler restrictions in force , whilst in other areas , people are being asked to be sensible with water , and not to waste it . |
| 14 | Radio 4 could easily rename their show Just An Hour and put Merton on every week ( Just A Minute , tellingly , is the only show he has actually asked to be included on ) . |
| 15 | He had never asked to be Keeper of the castle in the first place , and being a man actively inclined , now that his wound from the Kinghorn affray was healed , found the confines of the castle irksome . |
| 16 | The satisfaction with which the new prayer book was received and used quickly resulted in a request that the Burmese hymn book should be revised and enlarged , and I was asked to be the editor and secretary of the small revision committee . |
| 17 | He had not asked to be made ‘ controller ’ of the Pessarane Behesht cell in Paris . |
| 18 | No , I was simply asked to be General Chairman of the first dinner to raise funds for Aids . |
| 19 | Through the club magazine , Tryline , it will also be an additional communication vehicle for their work and Will Carling has been asked to be the first honorary president of the club as he lead the very team which embodies the aspirations of the club itself . |
| 20 | He said he is still available to play for Australia in domestic tests but has asked to be judged on his form with Sydney club Randwick . |
| 21 | He had asked to be tested . |
| 22 | Now , in a way , he has asked to be rewarded . |
| 23 | The Japanese are reluctant , partly because they were asked to be contributors after the machine had been designed , rather than to be partners for the whole project . |
| 24 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 25 | Francis was a close friend of Jacqueline Hill 's husband , Producer/Director Alvin Rakoff , and had asked to be kept in mind for a part almost from Doctor Who 's beginning . |
| 26 | Amir had to resign , and Hatta was asked to be formateur . |
| 27 | Next it was Ethel to make difficulties , because she had n't been asked to be a bridesmaid . |
| 28 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 29 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 30 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |