Example sentences of "ask [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We ask the general assembly to remit to the assembly council to give attention to the placing of health and healing within the overall work of the church and to report to next year 's general assembly on where they think this remit should most effectively be discharged .
2 One other matter before I ask the General Secretary I think our colleague might want to say something after the General Secretary .
3 Ask the General Secretary to respond , C=conference
4 Ask the electoral registration officer for an application form ( RPF9 ) as soon as an election has been announced and you know that you will not be able to vote in person .
5 Ask the average person how much time they put into training their voice or obtaining feedback about the effect of their voice on others , and they will probably consider you to be a little mad .
6 Yet , ask the average mastermind of today what Priestley is best remembered for , the reply is usually ‘ He discovered oxygen ’ .
7 If you do n't want to change places with me , then could n't you take him yourself and ask the chief magician for help ?
8 To take my hon. Friend 's point , I ask the rhetorical question : is it possible to solve this grave difficulty simply by suppressing a name or ordering the press not to publish it ?
9 If you experience difficulties with any aspect of the patient 's care , ask the relevant specialist from your rehabilitation team what you should do .
10 I ask the swaying member of the hotel staff who comes towards me who is giving it .
11 The sales and production directors therefore often ask the financial director to put their views informally to the managing director and to sound out his opinion before they approach him formally .
12 You then ask the second child to write down any figures for the second row and you immediately write the third row .
13 We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ?
14 Ask the new deputy .
15 You ask the first question , and within moments six people are disagreeing vehemently with one another in Greek , breaking off to explain courteously in English what each thinks the answer should be , and then disagreeing with equal passion in English .
16 However , when you ask the first child to look at the card written on the piece of paper , it is the correct one .
17 Ask the wee fella does he know anybody that 's got one of those er VAC twenty
18 However , I think we are more likely to find the right answer if we ask the right question .
19 Ask the other person open questions
20 He told students : ‘ In the auditions I ask them who came second in the last war and they say ‘ Ask the other fella ’ .
21 Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any unconfessed sin in your life , and confess it thoroughly , noting down any action you are prompted to take .
22 Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you .
23 Encourage each trainee to cite an instance of maladaptive behaviour they have met and ask the whole group to discuss the way in which the child acquired it .
24 When you ask the whole group questions , give careful thought in advance to how you are going to deal with a flurry of waving hands and shouted answers .
25 Ask the local authority 's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels .
26 " Ask the local chemist ?
27 Just ask the Pink Nude .
28 Then as we pass the slaughterhouse at Karantina , I ask the Christian driver the reason for the appalling smell .
29 Just ask the genial boss Bartolo .
30 Despite all our scientific study of the physical world , one can still look with wonder at the panorama of ‘ ordinary ’ objects and events presented to us by our senses and can still — indeed should — ask the basic question : ‘ What is it all , fundamentally ? ’
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