Example sentences of "be ask [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 2 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 3 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 4 | I 've been asked to tab out the solo and the ending from a song from ‘ Hasten Down The Wind ’ , Linda 's version of That 'll Be The Day . |
| 5 | I have also been asked to pass on the request of one of the nearby residents for the latch to be replaced on the playing field gates . |
| 6 | Look at the question in Figure 2A ; you are asked to work out the transfer price , but first you must work out what volume the group should operate at . |
| 7 | ‘ So , Mr Calder , you were n't really surprised at being asked to take over the job of chairman ? |
| 8 | ‘ Conservation is being asked to take on the burden of social policies for rural Britain . ’ |
| 9 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 10 | When the students were asked to pick out the photograph that most resembled them , they usually selected the most flattering one . |
| 11 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 12 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |
| 13 | The turning-point in his fortunes came in October 1861 , when he was asked to take on the printing and publishing of the Union newspaper , which was trying to bring Tractarian Anglicans into touch with Roman Catholics . |
| 14 | While the work carried out by Touche Ross is now open to criticism , in fairness , that firm was asked to carry out the work within an unreasonably short timescale . |
| 15 | After completing the restructuring of British Steel , Finniston was asked to draw up the group 's first corporate plan . |