Example sentences of "[verb] ask [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pravda reported that most of the ‘ thousands ’ of letters it had received asked the simple question : ‘ When is the war going to end ? ’ |
| 2 | The salesperson has asked a closed question implying a yes or no answer . |
| 3 | The LFS itself has asked a consistent question about temporary working only since 1983 . |
| 4 | One of Britain 's most successful pop singers , George Michael , has asked a High Court Judge to declare his recording contract null and void . |
| 5 | In other cases the committee has asked the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) to visit the firm , usually to review its audit procedures . |
| 6 | John Spalvins , the head of Adelaide Steamship which holds a key 20 per cent stake in Bell Resources , has asked the Western Australian Supreme Court to appoint a receiver to that company along with Mr Bond 's master company , Bond Corporation , and his private family concern , Dallhold Investments . |
| 7 | The General Assembly has asked the richer countries to give one per cent of their annual budget to try and wipe out poverty in the third world . |
| 8 | The council has asked the Grand National Archery Association to stop its member counties from holding ‘ postal shoots ’ with the Natal Archery Society . |
| 9 | The council has asked the Grand National Archery Association to stop its member counties from holding ‘ postal shoots ’ with the Natal Archery Society . |
| 10 | ‘ The International Intellectual Property Alliance ( IIPA ) has targeted seven countries for particularly egregious abuses of US copyrights and has asked the new US Trade Representative , Mickey Kauber , to designate them as ‘ Priority Foreign Countries ’ under the Special 301 provisions of the trade act . |
| 11 | The Home Secretary has asked the chief constable for a report . |
| 12 | David Waddington , the home secretary , announced that he has asked the chief constable of the West Midlands to investigate the conviction of the Birmingham six , who were jailed for an IRA bombing 16 years ago . |
| 13 | The company has asked the International Trade Commission to forbid the entry into the United States of counterfeit computers and components . |
| 14 | Mr Harper and his lay ministers in St Paul 's Church Society give church services in 24 Darlington old people 's homes and he has asked the Prime Minister to intervene over the closure plan . |
| 15 | The UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency has asked the European Commission and European Parliament to impose sanctions against Taiwanese goods . |
| 16 | The ministry described the problem as very serious and has asked the National Disaster Council to deal with the problem . |
| 17 | British Coal has asked the National Union of Mineworkers to discuss further pit closures . |
| 18 | The LFS has asked the same question about temporary working only since I 9836 and the latest survey results available are those from 1986 . |
| 19 | I am giving my hon. Friend the correct answer ; if he has asked the wrong question , that is his problem . |
| 20 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 21 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 22 | In a visit to Moscow in April Walesa was expected to ask the Soviet Union to follow Western creditors ' lead and reduce Poland 's $1,700 million debt to the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | I tried to ask the Prime Minister , in a parliamentary question , to give details of the additional charters in the various service areas which arise directly from his own citizens charter and to say when each of the new charters would be published . |
| 24 | I want to ask the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East a thing or two . |
| 25 | However , I want to ask the hon. Gentleman a question . |
| 26 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 27 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 28 | Headteacher David Darlington said he had decided to ask the elderly to lunch after seeing how many lived by themselves when he was delivering harvest food parcels in the autumn . |
| 29 | It was reported on Dec. 1 that the authorities in the state of Louisiana had decided to ask the Supreme Court to review the state 's stringent anti-abortion law . |
| 30 | But he knows Bonanza will have done some arithmetic , and will be wanting to ask a few questions . |