Example sentences of "been ask [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear Jane and friends , ’ he said , ‘ I am greatly privileged to have been asked to say a few words today . |
| 2 | The old maestro having been asked to give a last exhibition of his art , no one wished it to go wrong . |
| 3 | The Government has been asked to give a high priority to the subject by making substantial cuts in rate poundages in the tax year 1992/93 . |
| 4 | Darlington Borough Council has been asked to allow a disused church building on Clifton Road to be turned into a shop . |
| 5 | General Noriega had been asked to leave the Papal mission but would not be forced to leave , Vatican spokesmen insisted . |
| 6 | Unless you 've been asked to fill a longer time , aim at making your item three to four minutes in length . |
| 7 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 8 | Karen Silk , defending , said : ‘ He was only at work because he had been asked to do an extra shift . |
| 9 | They have been asked to sing a revised version of ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ written by an Australian radio station ( sample lyric ‘ I 'm not gay/but I 'm into leather … ’ ) . |
| 10 | Whenever I 've been asked to take a sponsored parachute jump I 've declined , giving the excuse ‘ fear of flying ’ . |
| 11 | Imagine that you have been asked to translate the above extract for inclusion in a review of the book , to be published in one of the leading newspapers in your country . |
| 12 | If a dealer has been asked to supply a suitable expert system it is possible that , by doing so , he carried out a service . |
| 13 | The candidates had been asked to supply a dummy paper with a lead story and some idea of content . |
| 14 | But much wider issues than the construction of the Finance Act 1976 have been raised in these appeals and for the first time this House has been asked to consider a detailed argument upon the extent to which reference can properly be made before a court of law in the United Kingdom to proceedings in Parliament recorded in Hansard . |
| 15 | They had all , on arrival , been asked to write a brief account of where they had been , and with whom , the previous evening and night . |
| 16 | A Russian grand duke was due to visit Vienna in September , and Mozart had been asked to write a German opera for the occasion . |
| 17 | Indeed , this event was the first of several that has enabled Keith to use his knowledge of Russian as he has also been asked to write a short speech for a Coopers and Lybrand partner in Sheffield and subsequently coach him with his delivery skills . |
| 18 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 19 | As a result of the Belgian links , the college has been asked to become a third partner in a TEMPUS project . |
| 20 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 21 | I have seen him as Grimes many times and never without a sense of embarrassment that this finely sensitive singer should have been asked to adopt a vicious role alien to him . |
| 22 | Such preservation will be most likely where particular programs were run to determine the structural stability or the environmental efficiency of a building or the individual or institution commissioning the structure had been asked to accept a particular design after a ‘ virtual visit to or walk around of ’ the planned building . |
| 23 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 24 | Q I have been asked to make an outside sign in timber for my bowls club . |
| 25 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been asked to produce a smoking gun . |
| 27 | Mr Waldegrave has been asked to provide a full explanation of the changes planned by the Northern Regional Health Authority . |
| 28 | As a result , the initating member has been asked to contact the participating member to elicit general or specifically defined acquisition advisery assistance , which could take the form of : |
| 29 | For this committee , therefore Severn we 've been asked to approve a revised estimate of five point nine five five million pounds , and an estimate next year of five point four , six , seven million pounds . |
| 30 | The Regional Council has been asked to approve an amended line for the Millerhill Section of the Outer City Bypass , between the Musselburgh Bypass and the A68 at Sheriffhall . |