Example sentences of "[verb] [been] ask [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government has been asked to give a high priority to the subject by making substantial cuts in rate poundages in the tax year 1992/93 . |
| 2 | Darlington Borough Council has been asked to allow a disused church building on Clifton Road to be turned into a shop . |
| 3 | It is possible to see who has been asked to assess a DC using option 2.8.2 , View DC Assessors and view their assessments using option 2.8.3 , View DC Assessments . |
| 4 | As a result of the Belgian links , the college has been asked to become a third partner in a TEMPUS project . |
| 5 | Mr Waldegrave has been asked to provide a full explanation of the changes planned by the Northern Regional Health Authority . |
| 6 | If a dealer has been asked to supply a suitable expert system it is possible that , by doing so , he carried out a service . |
| 7 | Each school has been asked to identify a co-ordinator who will liaise with the appropriate Road Safety Training Officer and other agencies to ensure an appropriate and progressive programme of road safety education for all pupils . |
| 8 | The Regional Council has been asked to pay a subscription fee to the Scottish Accident Prevention Council ( SAPC ) in 1993/94 . |
| 9 | All oil and chemical tankers calling at French and Italian ports have been banned from using the strait , and the International Maritime Organization has been asked to impose a ban on all tankers using the waterway . |
| 10 | Kelly has been asked to prepare a discussion document by the FA 's referees committee . |
| 11 | Now Britain 's Royal Ordnance Company has been asked to build a cheaper one man version for the Chilean army . |
| 12 | But much wider issues than the construction of the Finance Act 1976 have been raised in these appeals and for the first time this House has been asked to consider a detailed argument upon the extent to which reference can properly be made before a court of law in the United Kingdom to proceedings in Parliament recorded in Hansard . |
| 13 | Having won more than 75 awards in the past five years , we might also have been asked to nominate a judge or two . |
| 14 | In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story , except perhaps to a few friends alone . |
| 15 | I have seen him as Grimes many times and never without a sense of embarrassment that this finely sensitive singer should have been asked to adopt a vicious role alien to him . |
| 16 | The old maestro having been asked to give a last exhibition of his art , no one wished it to go wrong . |
| 17 | ‘ My dear Jane and friends , ’ he said , ‘ I am greatly privileged to have been asked to say a few words today . |
| 18 | Yesterday Lucas factory manager Colin Hull said the firm was delighted to have been asked to host a visit from the princess as a result of her expressing a wish to include an industrial stop on her stay . |
| 19 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 20 | There were a number of contacts to make , both in New York and on the West Coast ; Cadogan 's was thinking of expanding to San Francisco to take advantage of the considerable artistic activity out there , and he had been asked to spend a week in reconnoitring and reviewing possible sites . |
| 21 | It meant that Mrs Constantine had been asked to attend a meeting and wanted to get out of it at all costs . |
| 22 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 23 | Sometimes other service-providers failed to understand the symptoms of dementia and therefore took inappropriate decisions on clients ' behalf ; for example , a social worker who had been asked to assess a client for residential care failed to realise that questions about the client 's own preferences would have to be phrased in such a way that the client could understand what was being proposed for her . |
| 24 | Mrs. Steed 's statement , too , dealt with her lack of any recollection of the occasion or knowledge that she had been asked to sign a transfer of the property . |
| 25 | By the end of the first year the members felt sufficiently established to start collecting books and money for the library and had been asked to send a copy of their rules to Oban where it was hoped to form a similar society . |
| 26 | Such preservation will be most likely where particular programs were run to determine the structural stability or the environmental efficiency of a building or the individual or institution commissioning the structure had been asked to accept a particular design after a ‘ virtual visit to or walk around of ’ the planned building . |
| 27 | Until then her sole performance would be as guest of honour that evening at the Eastbourne Conservative Club , where she had been asked to unveil a bust in commemoration of Dr Bodkin Adams . |
| 28 | In 1953–54 the figure of 2,982 , down from 3,151 in the previous year , dismayed the District Secretary , especially since branches had been asked to make a drive to recruit new members in Jubilee Year , 1953 . |
| 29 | If Culley had been asked to guess a description of James Court 's house , he would have been almost right . |
| 30 | A Russian grand duke was due to visit Vienna in September , and Mozart had been asked to write a German opera for the occasion . |