Example sentences of "[indef pn] asks [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe . |
| 2 | The example in ( 22 ) simply extends the scope of Quality by viewing truth as a special sub-case of sincerity applied to assertions ; when one asks a question , one may standardly be taken to be asking sincerely and hence to be indeed lacking and requiring the requested information . |
| 3 | Normally then , in cooperative circumstances , when one asserts something one implicates that one believes it , when one asks a question one implicates that one sincerely desires an answer and , by extension , when one promises to do x , one implicates that one sincerely intends to do x , and so on . |
| 4 | If one asks the question , ‘ Who decides what is a piece of ‘ good ’ writing ? ’ one is back to Leavis 's statements about the ‘ morally sensitive ’ reader . |
| 5 | No one asks the woman in the part-time job in the bookshop whether she would like the extra maternity leave and all the rest of the baggage , or whether she would prefer to keep her job . |