Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] ask for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 2 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 3 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 4 | When Mr Adley , along with Mr Gore-Booth and others , was asked to help restore relations with Syria last year , before the outbreak of war , he and the Foreign Office asked for a specific promise that Mrs Thatcher would not intervene again — and got it . |
| 5 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |