Example sentences of "to ask about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burun did not bother to ask about the fate of the raiders . |
| 2 | Already at least three soldiers in her home corps had approached her father to ask about the possibility of marriage . |
| 3 | The business of the historian is not to love or to hate Mary Stuart , to judge her as a saint or a criminal , but to ask about the success or failure of her rule . |
| 4 | Checklist of questions to ask about the company so that you are well informed before the interview |
| 5 | Then had come the only question Bess Halidon was ever to ask about the incident . |
| 6 | While it is a sociological question to ask about the way this came about , the image itself played an important role , one which is given an excellent analysis here . |
| 7 | Item , erm sorry , page nine , on the Food Safety Act , we did write , the Chief did write , to Andrew Smith , to ask about the position on the Food Safety Act , as far as monies go , and I will read you the response , it was a question in parliament . |
| 8 | Of course , this involves a departure from the general subjective principle of criminal liability , since it involves imposing a duty on the defendant to ask about the victim 's consent before continuing with his conduct . |
| 9 | Charles was about to ask about the subterfuge of the full petrol tank , but decided that Detective-Sergeant McWhirter might not be in possession of all the relevant facts for that deduction . |
| 10 | A professor in the University of Pennsylvania had written to ask about the distribution of the Upupidae Hoopoe in Britain . |
| 11 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
| 12 | From this point of view the relevant question to ask about the shift of the aggregate demand curve in figure 4.4 from AD to AD 1 is : Was it predictable on the basis of the available information relating to the process determining aggregate demand ? |