Example sentences of "have asked " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty International has asked the Government on many occasions to lift those measures which place obstacles in the path of asylum seekers attempting to gain access to the refugee-determination process . |
| 2 | He has asked questions all over the village , but none of the answers have solved this dreadful crime . |
| 3 | No one , of course , has asked to read it , for — if my argument is correct — the service has no need of any reminder of how the ideology works or how to implement the paradigms which support their cultural norms . |
| 4 | It is an American , Herbert Schniedau , who has asked : |
| 5 | Even Hun Sen , the Prime Minister , has asked the province committee to find him a village in Kep , according to Mr Sok Hay . |
| 6 | The Scottish Office has asked for responses to the consultation document by 27 November . |
| 7 | The Home Secretary has asked the chief constable for a report . |
| 8 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 9 | The panel has asked MTS to send a correction to its shareholders . |
| 10 | Now the European Institute of Technology — an industrial organisation founded by IBM Europe , AT&T , Enichem , Montedison and Philips — has asked it to handle the intellectual property rights for the scientific projects it supports in European institutions . |
| 11 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 12 | Tests of the head do not definitely identify its age and Oxford has asked for a second sample . |
| 13 | The results have not been dissimilar when Gallup has asked whether voters preferred a cut in local rates if this meant a reduction in local services or an extension of the services even if this involved an increase in rates . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 15 | Densu , the largest advertising agency in the world , has asked to handle the entire marketing operations for Japan , where the World Student Games are more popular than anywhere else in the capitalist world . |
| 16 | Bunter Soames , vastly amused , has asked for others — which he also promises to wear . |
| 17 | Ethiopia has asked for 377,000 tonnes of food to fend off famine in Eritrea and Tigre . |
| 18 | He is accused by East Berlin , which has asked for his extradition , of embezzlement , corruption , and illegal dealings in arms and foreign currency . |
| 19 | Ethiopia has asked for 377,000 tonnes of food to fend off famine in Eritrea and Tigre . |
| 20 | He is accused by East Berlin , which has asked for his extradition , of embezzlement , corruption , and illegal dealings in arms and foreign currency . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The council has asked the Grand National Archery Association to stop its member counties from holding ‘ postal shoots ’ with the Natal Archery Society . |
| 23 | The council has asked the Grand National Archery Association to stop its member counties from holding ‘ postal shoots ’ with the Natal Archery Society . |
| 24 | The Berlin Festival in February will show Skylarks On A String and other once proscribed films , and Gilles Jacob of the Cannes Festival has asked Juraj Jakubisko , the best-known Slovak director , to put a newly shot ending on to his banned Birdies , Orphans And Fools . |
| 25 | It is significant , too , that Vicini has asked the Milan trio — Roberto Donadoni , Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi — to play . |
| 26 | It is significant , too , that Vicini has asked the Milan trio — Roberto Donadoni , Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi — to play . |
| 27 | WEST Germany has asked the UN Security Council to meet to discuss the situation in Romania . |
| 28 | Mr Janman has asked us to make it clear that , as he wrote in last Saturday 's Sun , he recognises that both crown servants and substantial investors in Britain have an existing right to come here and that though at present he advocates the strict exclusion of all others , he would cease to do so if the Chinese were to attempt ‘ a Tiananmen-style crackdown ’ in Hong Kong in 1997 . |
| 29 | I mean Special Branch has asked us to come in . |
| 30 | The Bank of England , responding to fears of a credit crunch , has asked banks to think twice before turning away would-be corporate borrowers . |