Example sentences of "[be] ask to take [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 2 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 3 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 4 | Swindon Town had a weekend off … but travel to Grimsby tomorrow … amid rumours that Glenn Hoddle has been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 5 | Football , and Swindon manager Glenn Hoddle has denied rumours that he 's been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 6 | ‘ So , Mr Calder , you were n't really surprised at being asked to take over the job of chairman ? |
| 7 | ‘ Conservation is being asked to take on the burden of social policies for rural Britain . ’ |
| 8 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 9 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |
| 10 | The turning-point in his fortunes came in October 1861 , when he was asked to take on the printing and publishing of the Union newspaper , which was trying to bring Tractarian Anglicans into touch with Roman Catholics . |