Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince of Wales asked for help |
| 2 | Go into any church in a poor area and you 're likely to find candles lit before the statue of Mary and little messages on scraps of paper asking for her help . |
| 3 | In May 1967 the mayor ridiculed a Nationalist proposal to submit a draft memorial to the Ministry of Development asking for an extension . |
| 4 | The Ministry of Supply asked for any kind of bone except the backbone of a kipper . |
| 5 | 47% of families asking for help from the Family Welfare Association did not have enough money left to feed themselves . |
| 6 | The 1987 Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches asked for opportunities for Church leaders to study so that they can cope with problems cropping up everywhere . |
| 7 | Dr Newman was seeing five or six people each surgery with the same symptoms , and ‘ the pharmacist reported a flood of people asking for remedies ’ . |
| 8 | You 'd do it if you were on a bank executive and you said well only five percent of people ask for independent advice , why do we bother with all that lot ? |
| 9 | Muirend Avenue and Viewfield Road A letter from Councillor Fraser to the Director of Highways asking for dates and details of the new traffic management scheme . |
| 10 | Muirend Avenue and Viewfield Road A letter from Councillor Fraser to the Director of Highways asking for dates and details of the new traffic management scheme . |
| 11 | The questionnaire addressed to the Head of Department asked for information under five headings : |
| 12 | The ethnic Albanians of Kosovo asked for EC recognition of an independent Kosovo on Dec. 23 . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a sign of weakness to ask for help . ’ |
| 14 | I I have to say the top earners of course ask for those further away . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State asked for the Committee 's comments . |
| 16 | To add to this demoralising sense of isolation , the tenacious curtain of smoke from the bombardment meant that the front line frequently could not see the supporting troops behind ; nor , worse still , could their rockets of supplication asking for the artillery to bring down a barrage , or cease shelling their own positions , be seen at the rear . |
| 17 | We agree that the rate of refusal by relatives and the incidence of failure to ask for organs should be minimised . |
| 18 | So , if a number of horses ask for dinner , which is a fairly basic demand in horses , some horses may ask verbally but others will summon their slaves by pawing the ground , or banging the gate , or kicking their stable , or tossing their head , and so on . |
| 19 | If the photographer has used a reel of film ask for a set of contact prints with the photographer 's own choice of two or three of the pictures enlarged . |
| 20 | If they survived , why , Jaq must then go to Earth to seek an audience with the Master of Mankind to ask for guidance . |
| 21 | Immediately after The Builder published its report about Hall 's conclave on 30th August , 1856 , architects began to write to the Office of Works asking for details . |
| 22 | This was done very effectively in the late seventies in campaigns by Whitbread , who ran a series of ads asking for public comments on a number of propositions about the law affecting pubs and licensing ; and subsequently by the major banks , who ran a joint campaign partly designed to deter the threat of nationalization — a campaign which attracted many thousands of replies from the public . |