Example sentences of "asked [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1980 we ought perhaps to have asked ourselves whether this river might have been the Shatt al-Arab itself , while one of the characters was Iranian and the other Iraqi . |
| 2 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 3 | North had apparently asked himself whether it was worth it , to die in Vietnam : |
| 4 | He had never asked himself that question before . |
| 5 | These are questions that man has asked himself since time began . |
| 6 | He 'd often asked himself the same question . |
| 7 | He must have asked himself , perplexed as to how to act , whether he would ever again get near enough to ‘ breathe ’ on Kee with his ardent breath , so as to melt their horrid separateness into one glorious entity . |
| 8 | It answered the question he had asked himself and told him that the bones of a very young child had been found as well as those of a young woman . |
| 9 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 10 | But every great competition fighter has asked himself those very questions . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman has completely failed to understand that he has not yet asked himself the question , ’ What is a region ? ’ |
| 12 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 13 | Errors of fact or law will have to stand , provided the expert can be said to have asked himself " the right question " . |
| 14 | Although questions of interpretation are traditionally questions of law the court will intervene only if the expert has asked himself the " wrong question " : see 13.6.8 , 13.8 and 13.9 . |
| 15 | The parties have to accept the expert 's decision , unless he has asked himself the wrong question of law : Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 . |
| 16 | Whichever way a point of law is resolved , including without lawyers being consulted , a decision on a point of law will stand unless the expert has asked himself the wrong question of law . |
| 17 | However , this line of challenge has been closed down by Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 , which allows challenges only if the expert has asked himself the wrong question , including a question of law . |
| 18 | A party who wishes to appeal from a decision of an expert will be able to do so only : ( 1 ) if the expert has decided the wrong issue ; or ( 2 ) if the expert has asked himself the wrong question : see 13.6.8 . |
| 19 | It was a question he had asked himself . |
| 20 | At the very least it might have asked itself how it intended to make money selling American shares to Americans at a time when Wall Street 's native giants were incapable of doing so . |
| 21 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 22 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 23 | It had asked itself the wrong question when interpreting one of the ‘ X ’ questions in the empowering statute . |
| 24 | First , administrative tribunals or authorities were subject to the full rigours of the Anisminic judgment : the parliamentary intent was presumed , subject to a clear contrary indication , to be that questions of law were to be decided by the courts ; the distinction between errors within jurisdiction and errors going to jurisdiction was , for practical purposes , abolished , and any error of law would automatically result in the tribunal having asked itself the wrong question . |
| 25 | Any mistake of law would mean that the authority had asked itself the wrong question , which would result in a jurisdictional error . |
| 26 | Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ? |
| 27 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 28 | The answer was the same as on every previous occasion she had asked herself that question . |
| 29 | I have a feeling that I may not be the only language tutor who has asked herself : |
| 30 | No sooner had she asked herself the question than she realized the folly of it — and of the fees she had already demanded . |