Example sentences of "asking what be " in BNC.

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1 The need for some kind of frame of reference for thinking about the curriculum , and asking what is and should be taught is most obvious in the schools .
2 Asking what is the capacity for such an expansion , in practical terms , we must conclude that the available evidence suggests that it would require a transformation that would be nothing short of miraculous .
3 Already I can hear you asking what is a combi-steamer ?
4 It 's proper that we should be asking in the context of these proposals for boundary changes , affected as they are by the decision of the er first of all the French national assembly and now the French government to make life difficult for the other member states as far as the ratification of these proposals are concerned , it 's right that we should be asking what is the position of the British government in relation to these matters .
5 ‘ Maybe I should be asking what 's so extra important about it to you . ’
6 I 'm asking what 's the legal position in that ?
7 They gather round , tentatively asking what 's wrong .
8 Instead of letting our success lead us into a fat-cat mentality , it led us much more strongly and much faster into a mentality of asking what are we going to do with it .
9 I ought to explain that in this talk I am not attacking fundamentalism as such — I am in fact asking what are its strengths , weaknesses and challenges .
10 Ullman thus attempts to follow Lloyd Morgan 's Canon , asking what are the minimal computational processes that need to be posited to explain motion-perception .
11 I want to start by asking what are the risks that the Delors plan — the origin of European economic and monetary union — will suffer the same fate as the Werner plan did 20 years ago .
12 The police at Southampton had got in touch with Bath , asking what was to be done with the bike , as it had apparently been abandoned .
13 But you will perhaps understand that there was a natural tendency on my part , in asking what was after all a generous favour from my employer , to hint that there was a good professional motive behind my request .
14 I kept asking what was wrong .
15 People that knew me were asking what was wrong with me , they were shocked at the state of me .
16 Kandel and his colleagues began by asking what was the neural circuit which underlies the gill and siphon withdrawal response .
17 ‘ I wanted to prepare them for it , not leave it to the last two weeks with people asking what was happening .
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