Example sentences of "be asking a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're asking a civil engineer to do some work for you i if that civil engineer has a degree does it automatically mean that the work 's going to be perfect and wonderful ? |
| 2 | Erm We 're asking a large cross section of people and organisations around the country to help by allowing us to record their conversations , meetings broadcasts and so on , both in private homes and on company premises . |
| 3 | This year we are asking a selected sample of readers to help us with this process . |
| 4 | We are asking a large cross-section of people and organizations around the country to help by allowing us to record their conversations , |
| 5 | The British Market Research Bureau , an independent market research agency , are asking a large cross section of people around the country to help with this task of , by recording their conversations . |
| 6 | According to their calculations , they are asking a fair rate . |
| 7 | I am asking a straight question to which the Minister can either give or refuse to give the answer . |
| 8 | But there will be a great many more , soon , and they 'll be asking a great many questions . ’ |
| 9 | Well , Oxfam week 's principally aimed at a house , house to house collection Jane , so we shall be asking a whole lot of people to get out on the streets and to put envelopes through the doors in their neighbourhood and then to go back later on and collect money which we hope people will kindly give us . |
| 10 | She would be bait , Zeno would be drawn , then Pascoe would appear with the gun and they 'd be asking a few hard questions . |
| 11 | It is asking a good deal of students to abstract process from content if lecturers do not do it . |
| 12 | I realise that this is asking a great deal , but it would help our strained finances if copies of these sections can be made within each institution . |
| 13 | This is asking a great deal . |
| 14 | It 's asking a good deal , but rather a lot depends on it . ’ |
| 15 | For a 13-year-old who may not be too hot on writing at all , it 's asking a great deal . |
| 16 | Richard Crossman , the Labour minister who introduced a failed attempt at morning sittings in 1967 , wrote in his diary about the reaction of fellow cabinet ministers ( ‘ It 's asking a terrible lot of us … |
| 17 | He was asking a simple unloaded question , not like Tremayne . |
| 18 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 19 | He could hardly have set about this more cack-handedly , he thought : he was asking a respectable psychic to supply him with blackmail material . |
| 20 | In the circumstances I was asking a great deal . |
| 21 | Elsewhere Karsten Greve of Cologne was asking a big price for a big picture : SF2.5 million for a huge Twombly , while the soon to be closed Galerie Nierendorf of Berlin showed a four metre wide Morris Louis priced at $530,900 ( £290,900 ) . |