Example sentences of "ask [Wh det] " in BNC.
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1 | Given that there are several ways of doing a calculation , we can ask which of them , if any , is analogous to the way the brain performs the same calculation . |
2 | ‘ So I gathered , ’ I said dryly , ‘ and would you also ask which horses are running at Winnipeg and which at Vancouver , and which in Bill 's opinion is the really best horse on the train , not necessarily on form , and which has the best chance of winning either race . ’ |
3 | We might ask which is worse , the cruelty or the stupidity ? |
4 | A technician using the speakerphone will ask which of his residents you wish to view . |
5 | If you want a definite conclusion , you can ask which seems the most likely spelling ( in this case obviously -ble ) and accept that . |
6 | Can I ask which promises ? |
7 | Fruit 's about the only thing you can ask which country . |
8 | Yeah I 'll ask which one it is . |
9 | we must ask whose opinions in the classroom setting are crucial in the judgment of what is deemed proper action . |
10 | The diplomatic or business historian may gaze at the e-text archive and ask who decided what , but in situations which involve rule based elements in a Decision Support System ( DSS ) , the historian may well ask whose decision ? |
11 | ‘ You do n't ask whose clothes , ’ she said . |
12 | I passed by , and was no longer recognised by anyone ; the unknown children did not smile at me ; and I dared not ask what had become of those I had known , whom I feared to recognise in these bent men exhausted by life . |
13 | In order to ascertain the rights to which any given set of facts give rise , we must always ask what is the rule of Common Law ? what difference ( if any ) is made in the working of this rule by the existence of some rule of Equity applying to the case ? |
14 | Before Mungo could ask what she meant , Lily emerged from the back door with two glasses on a tray . |
15 | ‘ You do n't ask what an oak tree is for , it 's a silly question , ’ he once said . |
16 | WITH all the generation of hot air in the past few weeks , one might ask what effect this will have on the ozone layer ? |
17 | One may ask what one would have had to do had one consented . |
18 | ‘ May I ask what your interest was , sir ? ’ |
19 | As Fleming shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin with Chain and Florey in 1945 , one may reasonably ask what he was doing during the critical years 1938 to 1942 . |
20 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
21 | Assuming he phoned Donald as soon as she began to vomit and have headaches , would n't Donald ask what they had eaten for dinner ? |
22 | You may well ask what particular statistical skills you need as a practising manager . |
23 | When one reads a figure one must always ask what the figure represents . |
24 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
25 | ‘ Nahum , dear , ’ said Elizabeth Bradford , ‘ we 're all used to your fondness for parting us from our wealth , but may we ask what prompted you to choose the Foundling Hospital this year ? ’ |
26 | If we wish to know what we think of ourselves , we need only ask what we think of others . |
27 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
28 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
29 | If a social worker comes to see your family , you can ask what is being planned for your future . |
30 | I did ask what about sheets , a pillowcase . |