Example sentences of "[be] asked [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is likely to be a fairly close relationship with the lawyers acting for the client , they will probably be asked to act for the client in respect of the firm 's contract . |
| 2 | Although the treatment is free , the patient may well be asked to pay for the tests used in diagnosis , and for a woman who wished to be screened for , say , gonorrhoea , trichomoniasis , and candidiasis , the bill might come to 250 francs , without the blood tests for syphilis , and if she was unfortunate enough to have an ulcer that might be syphilitic or herpetic , a further 150 francs could be added to the bill . |
| 3 | No patient and no hospital will be asked to pay for the blood you donate . |
| 4 | The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines , ZCCM , will be asked to pay for the environmental damage it has allegedly caused for the last 24 years , under the terms of the recently-approved Environment and Pollution Act . |
| 5 | Students due to enter the school that year had already been asked to volunteer for the parallel track , so two cohorts existed — those who had expressed a preference for the new approach and those who had not . |
| 6 | In October 1917 , minute 27640 states : The Acting General Manager mentioned that in connection with the aeroplanes which the Railway Companies had been asked to construct for the government , the L & NW had undertaken at Wolverton a share of the work , i.e. construction of wings . |
| 7 | A motorist whose car damaged a crash barrier has been asked to pay for the repairs — even though the accident was n't her fault . |
| 8 | Three firms of Mechanical Engineers have been asked to tender for the machinery and steelwork under conditions embodied in a Specification of Terms , a copy of which is hereto appended . |
| 9 | erm I think , you see , that people were being asked to vote for the wrong thing . |
| 10 | Dispute about the safety of the operation led to dockers being asked to volunteer for the work of loading the ship . |
| 11 | Labour demanded an immediate Commons statement from Mr Lilley and said it was outrageous that the long-term sick were being asked to pay for the Government 's economic mess . |
| 12 | For example , it 's apparent that each has a detailed grasp of the content and purpose of the information he is being asked to package for the page . |
| 13 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 14 | In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle . |
| 15 | Centres approved to offer the unit were asked to tender for the pilot and Stevenson College , Anniesland College and QTAC , the business arm of Fife College , were selected to run it . |
| 16 | In the early Christian community the living faithful prayed to God for their dead ; now the dead saint is asked to pray for the living : a whole new liturgy comes into being . |
| 17 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 18 | At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge . |
| 19 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 20 | Though he 'd come along , white carnation , wedding-ring and all , I reckon , if he was asked to play for the Firsts . |
| 21 | Instead , he was asked to train for the 400m , and won in world record time . |