Example sentences of "[subord] asking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than asking generalised questions about applicability in a vacuum , this criterion , once the exact local circumstances are known , has proved readily workable , as I told Mr Clement . |
| 2 | This is what you can do : if he comes too close and narrows the gap , step to the side and extend it again ; a gentle touch to his arm is more emphatic than asking him to stop . |
| 3 | The HKRFU went further than asking . |
| 4 | The reason for accepting this approach rather than asking for a ‘ block allocation ’ is simply the conviction that the summation of functional budgets produces a larger and more defensible total . |
| 5 | Encourage comment , speculation and prediction rather than asking for reproduction of what they have heard . |
| 6 | Too often senior managers get carried away measuring features of the service system , for example , the numbers of doctors and nurses per head of population , rather than asking such questions as : ‘ Is the community team 's service available twenty-four hours per day ? ’ |
| 7 | Rather than asking Cuthbert ingenuously who would succeed Ecgfrith , Aelfflaed was probably testing his loyalties . |
| 8 | Frequently , the consequences are misdiagnosed and treated as causes but this is no more justified than asking an educational psychologist to treat the disturbed thought processes of someone in pain from acute gout . |
| 9 | Since talking still seemed better than asking for written answers , it was decided to interview the parents in small groups , using a modification of the nursery from which is given in the SOED 's Using Ethos Indicators in Primary School Settings . |
| 10 | Rather than asking children to describe what they did , he chose to focus on the time pupils took to record answers , using a keyboard . |
| 11 | Yeah I think it might be if you could just actually talk through it really rather than asking them to do it . |
| 12 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 13 | But , erm , at the initial stage , the problem of order , really goes no further than asking a factual question . |
| 14 | Herr Nordern gave her a ghastly , feeble grin , as if asking for remission , but Frau Nordern turned a cold face away , showing only an upright back and stiff neck which in their rigidity seemed to symbolise the rectitude of all the generations of the Houses of von Bromberg and von Ritter . |
| 15 | The mare 's breathing was heavy and distressed and she kept turning her head round to him as if asking him for help . |
| 16 | ‘ Was it terrible ? ’ he asked , looking questioningly at the empty chair , as if asking their permission to sit down . |
| 17 | ‘ May I ? ’ he would say , as if asking her to dance . |
| 18 | ‘ Stella , ’ he called again , as if asking for the only person he needed . |
| 19 | His head knocked on the steps of the rostrum as if asking to be let in . |
| 20 | He looked at Farrell as if asking permission to put it on , to cover his nakedness ; although , at the moment , decency was the last of his worries . |
| 21 | Mum , no , I should invite Russell cos Russell 's mum and dad were asking if I we if asking if I was going back to it . |
| 22 | Emotionally , you still appear to be feeling somewhat torn and indecisive and the trouble is you have an enormous yearning to give while asking for very little or even nothing in return . |
| 23 | For example asking with ‘ please ’ may gain compliance from the parent while asking without it wo n't . |
| 24 | But what that picture was leading me to ask was something he had quoted Plato as asking — whether it had all been worthwhile , his whole life ? |
| 25 | Therefore , asking questions about objectives , planning , choice and evaluation may not be as important as asking questions about political forces at work if resource patterns are to be understood . |
| 26 | If this were so , an examination of an animal for pain-related behaviour would be as good as asking the animal if it was in pain . |
| 27 | As well as asking why you have been selected as a redundancy candidate and , if appropriate , arguing that a fair procedure would result in the selection of one of your colleagues instead , you may find it fruitful to explore the other ways in which the company can achieve the desired savings without putting your job at risk . |
| 28 | Lancashire was reported as asking the ministry to ‘ prescribe it under the Weeds Act 1959 ’ . |
| 29 | Information is gained from observing the family in the session as well as asking questions that probe into the relationships with the family . |
| 30 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |