Example sentences of "asking [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not asking so much of you , after all . |
| 2 | At the end of the day we are asking so much more of our employees nowadays than we 've ever done before . |
| 3 | And er when I went along to certain banks , they were asking as much as ninety seven pence a transaction . |
| 4 | I tabled a question asking how much the Government had set aside for bad debts , and the answer showed that not one penny had been set aside . |
| 5 | ‘ Now he is asking how much she costs , ’ Lambert said . |
| 6 | In English Exporters ( London ) Ltd v Eldonwall Ltd [ 1973 ] Ch 415 at 426 Megarry J stated that the term " have regard " almost of necessity was bound to create difficulties , asking how much regard was to be had and what weight was to be attached to the regard when it has been had . |
| 7 | And it was asking too much of readers that they should insulate Eliot the editor and editorialist from Eliot the poet ; so that they should read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ without feeling that they were being nudged into the Roman Catholic or the Anglo-Catholic church — |
| 8 | Perhaps it was asking too much of Oxford , who have not won a game for a month , to exercise the same shrewd control at half-back demonstrated by Farr-Jones and Porta . |
| 9 | So it may be asking too much to expect a re-rating . |
| 10 | He is against the proposed plan to introduce a 10-team league playing each other home and away as he feels it would be asking too much of the players . |
| 11 | Starting with the second point first , are we asking too much of would-be adoptive parents ? |
| 12 | But you are asking too much ! |
| 13 | The strips of course are not complete , exact rectangles ; that would be asking too much , but they obviously are strips , and obviously are symmetrical about the ridge axis — each black strip left of the axis can be matched with a similar black strip of equal width on the right of the axis , at the same distance from it . |
| 14 | Fortunately , this is not asking too much . |
| 15 | Would that be asking too much ? |
| 16 | However , perhaps I am asking too much , because at £10.99 this is certainly a worthwhile text with a refreshing approach . |
| 17 | An FA source revealed last night : ‘ Graham Taylor feels another game would be asking too much of the players . |
| 18 | I had hoped that Aung San would co-operate , but I felt that he was asking too much , though I hoped that the appointment of a smaller Council left the door open for AFPFL membership at a later date . |
| 19 | ‘ I realise that the audience have to suspend belief somewhat to enjoy plots but this was asking too much . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That 's not a criticism of his performances behind the stumps , because he 's good enough to do the job at the highest level , but it is asking too much to do both . ’ |
| 21 | You can stay up late for a few nights to finish that urgent report without getting irritable or asking too much of the people you live with . |
| 22 | The sense that many potential carers are guarding their own positions in situations where the care of a relative becomes a live issue in a family , is matched by the very clear message that older people in particular are wary of asking too much of their relatives , or of ‘ having ’ to rely on them . |
| 23 | But perhaps it is asking too much to expect some sort of articulated political goal — especially of the young adolescents who are responsible for the bulk of working-class crime . |
| 24 | It may be that I 'm asking too much of Bill Forsyth . |
| 25 | To my mind , this is asking too much . |
| 26 | On the other hand , it can be validly argued that it would be asking too much from a private entity to provide the same public notice that public registries have provided . |
| 27 | It would be asking too much to bring all the shops back on |
| 28 | It 's asking too much . |
| 29 | They 're asking too much of one another and just are n't managing to meet in the middle . |
| 30 | He was asking too much of her ! |