Example sentences of "[noun pl] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs asked for early warning |
| 2 | Is not his solution of private consultants to be engaged by competitive schools asking for trouble , because it creates an automatic conflict of interest and renders their reports suspect by definition ? |
| 3 | The panel members then receive regular questionnaires asking for their opinions of selected programmes over the past week . |
| 4 | In acknowledgement of this , IASC , which comprises the leading world accounting bodies , sent out a separate invitation to interested parties asking for their views on the subject . |
| 5 | The public 's response was so overwhelming that the procession of cars , which each carried two team members , was halted several times as fans surged around the cars asking for autographs , shaking hands and giving the occasional kiss . |
| 6 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 7 | INTEREST FREE CREDIT 12 MONTHS ASK FOR DETAILS |
| 8 | Extra duties : And clients ask for more |
| 9 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications will send a group of telecommunications experts to Vietnam on April 10 to hold a seminar about infrastructure development in Japan : Vietnam 's Minister of Transport and Telecommunications asked for Japan 's co-operation in developing the country 's telecommunication networks when he visited Japan in February , the Ministry noted . |
| 10 | He was the first to see the amusing side when golfers asked for a caddie — ‘ Your Worship ’ and mused that both his roles were ones of service . |
| 11 | There is no surplus from which to pay a dividend , but when directors asked for £162m of new capital through a rights issue at this time last year , shareholders were promised an unchanged final 7.64p , so they should receive it on July 1 . |
| 12 | The vice-chancellors asked for papers to inform their debate on fees at Leeds . |
| 13 | They drew no distinction between what the industry needed and what it wanted , with the result that government policy was usually determined by what the foreign mining companies asked for ’ . |
| 14 | In 1989 their parents asked for the twins ' photograph to be published in a Sunday newspaper and vowed that they would never be locked away in an institution . |
| 15 | The parents asked for access to be given to the Salvation Army , Baptist or Church of Scotland ministers , but all such requests were refused . |
| 16 | The US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing a new staff report on the anti-trust allegations against Microsoft Corp , but a decision on the matter probably is still weeks away , lawyers familiar with the case told the Wall Street Journal : with a two-to-two vote in February , the commission did n't accept staff recommendations to seek an injunction preventing the company from using its market power to engage in allegedly unfair competitive practices ; after the tied vote , the commissioners asked for more information in an effort to resolve the deadlock ; the status report , which was delivered to commissioners last week , provides additional support for the staff 's call for action . |
| 17 | A writ has been issued by the actress and her parents asking for him to be banned ‘ from entering or trespassing on the property or on the actual road ’ . |
| 18 | The winner , Katie Bishop , 15 , cooked a special meal with an unusual carrot pudding that had the judges asking for more . |
| 19 | ( It also increased the letters from German/Swiss nicks asking for copies of The End magazine to relieve the boredom . ) |
| 20 | One of them was the fact that housing associations ask for the keys is or ask for notification up to a month in advance of the fact that someone 's going to leave and that is not something which in terms of our stock , we find practical to do . |
| 21 | But the support is not being available whenever parents ask for help . |
| 22 | In October last year it was forced to turn to its shareholders and bankers to ask for £18 million to sort out its difficulties . |
| 23 | But farmers have short memories : within a couple of years economic stagnation had stemmed the labour outflow and even led ex-farm workers in some areas to ask for their former jobs back . |
| 24 | Two social workers asked for this to be done , because they were so concerned about the policy they were supposed to be implementing . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards the rebels asked for US troops to help them to defend the routes to the military headquarters they had seized . |
| 26 | The officials asked for further studies , which were reported to the department on 7 October . |
| 27 | Officials asked for money to help the Middlesbrough club survive after a series of fires at their Normanby Road ground . |
| 28 | ‘ I felt guilty writing because I know she is always besieged by charities asking for help . |
| 29 | Ministers arriving at their desks next week will find detailed briefs waiting for them and officials asking for decisions to be taken quickly . |
| 30 | The era of sealing wax and string was beginning to come to its end , although the end was far off ; in the Cavendish Laboratory under Rutherford in the 1930s the story was that research workers asking for string were made to say how many inches of it they needed . |