Example sentences of "ask ourselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted . |
| 2 | If we are to continue with a system of grants for specific operations on the land we must ask ourselves whether , in many crofting areas , we would not get better land use , and a greater benefit to the nation , if we grant-aided amenity planting on the in-bye land to improve the appearance of the villages . |
| 3 | In general we should ask ourselves whether we are happy with our responses to the following questions : |
| 4 | First , however , let us ask ourselves , what is cellulite and what causes it ? |
| 5 | Let us ask ourselves why this should be so . |
| 6 | Should we not ask ourselves whether the adulteress had a bad family upbringing , lacking in love , that she reacts in this way ? |
| 7 | These are questions we can ask ourselves , noting our own resistance to change and our need to control a situation . |
| 8 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Why did these three young men undertake this task ? ’ |
| 9 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 10 | His conclusions are stark : ‘ … a basic profit statement or balance sheet of any company conveys meaningless information … some [ accountants ] are definitely doing conjuring tricks and manipulating figures and the rest hopelessly losing their balance in utter confusion … we must ask ourselves whether we should be constrained by our accounting numbers and take a negative stance which dampens all entrepreneurial spirit . ’ |
| 11 | We can only ask ourselves more questions , and the answers we supply will reflect our own psychology . |
| 12 | If — and it is a very big ‘ if ’ — the matter sucked into a black hole must reappear somewhere and somewhen else , we must ask ourselves what the other end of the ‘ tunnel ’ would be like . |
| 13 | On the other hand we should ask ourselves what the mainline churches can learn from pentecostals and charismatics about their own communication and about new possibilities of passing on faith . |
| 14 | Perhaps we had best ask ourselves why our political institutions function as they do . |
| 15 | Further , we must ask ourselves , do we really want total honesty in communication ? |
| 16 | Two important questions we can all ask ourselves are : |
| 17 | Throughout we should ask ourselves , does this ( whatever is being said ) apply to her ? |
| 18 | Again we must ask ourselves , ‘ Which war was that ? ’ |
| 19 | We can ask ourselves if they are getting the meaning . |
| 20 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 21 | We have first to pretend that , in the event of A wrongfully directing an innocent person X to do something to B 's goods , A is in the position of a finder or custodian of the goods ; and then we must ask ourselves , ‘ Would X 's acts have been excused if these were the facts ? ’ |
| 22 | Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it . |
| 23 | Druidism was , however , only a small portion of Posidonius ' picture of Celtic society , and we must ask ourselves what impression such a picture would make on his contemporaries . |
| 24 | As the first six months of the Campaign end , we can ask ourselves : what have we achieved and at what cost ? |
| 25 | All the time we must ask ourselves : " Is the Present a long enough key to penetrate the deep lock of the Past ? " |
| 26 | At some stage we must ask ourselves , ‘ Is this really the EC that we asked people to join ? ’ |
| 27 | We must ask ourselves : who are the perpetrators of these offences , and what are their motives ? |
| 28 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Have we made sufficient progress for one year 's deliberations and hard work ? ’ |
| 29 | So let's ask ourselves a naïve question . |
| 30 | When we look at these disasters we must again ask ourselves how it was that Harris and Eaker could sustain those losses and go time and again . |