Example sentences of "must ask [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you feel you often get unnecessarily short shrift in your interviews with professionals a question you must ask yourself is whether you have created an unfavourable impression by wasting their time in the past . |
| 2 | And is it worth it , you must ask yourself . |
| 3 | And every time a bolt from the blue heads in your direction , you must ask yourself : What is this trying to awaken me to ? |
| 4 | Any proprietary bacterial/anti-parasite remedy will help , but in the long run you must ask yourself if your filtration is adequate , and whether your tank is overstocked . |
| 5 | A wise choice is dependent upon two questions you must ask yourself : |
| 6 | Soviet General Staff must ask himself how much of that GNP has any practical use . |
| 7 | If the subject-matter is sequential , the teacher must ask himself whether it is essential that step A is known to have been mastered before the beginning of step B , and what is the essential minimum ; he will then go on to decide how the achievement of that minimum can be tested , what can be done for those who do not reach it , and whether the material is such that comprehension or insight might be expected to dawn at later stages after more exposure to the subject field . |
| 8 | The hon. and learned Gentleman , who is an authority on this subject and a distinguished member of the Select Committee on Employment , must ask himself in all seriousness about the consequences for the supply of job opportunities of Labour 's policies on the minimum wage and increased social charges . |
| 9 | Thus the pilots who are flying several different types of glider , or a glider which is unfamiliar to them , must ask themselves before each flight , ‘ Do I need the stick forward to lift the tail , or back a little to lift the nose ? ’ |
| 10 | Before preparing any hand-out , however , teachers must ask themselves why they are giving it and how they are to use it . |
| 11 | In this period of evangelism Christian communicators must ask themselves how the media can most appropriately present the Good News of the Gospel . |
| 12 | In this respect too , the court is exercising its power of review , by identifying more closely for the police the questions that they must ask themselves in deciding whether or not they are entitled to take preventive action . |
| 13 | If we are to continue with a system of grants for specific operations on the land we must ask ourselves whether , in many crofting areas , we would not get better land use , and a greater benefit to the nation , if we grant-aided amenity planting on the in-bye land to improve the appearance of the villages . |
| 14 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Why did these three young men undertake this task ? ’ |
| 15 | His conclusions are stark : ‘ … a basic profit statement or balance sheet of any company conveys meaningless information … some [ accountants ] are definitely doing conjuring tricks and manipulating figures and the rest hopelessly losing their balance in utter confusion … we must ask ourselves whether we should be constrained by our accounting numbers and take a negative stance which dampens all entrepreneurial spirit . ’ |
| 16 | If — and it is a very big ‘ if ’ — the matter sucked into a black hole must reappear somewhere and somewhen else , we must ask ourselves what the other end of the ‘ tunnel ’ would be like . |
| 17 | Further , we must ask ourselves , do we really want total honesty in communication ? |
| 18 | Again we must ask ourselves , ‘ Which war was that ? ’ |
| 19 | We have first to pretend that , in the event of A wrongfully directing an innocent person X to do something to B 's goods , A is in the position of a finder or custodian of the goods ; and then we must ask ourselves , ‘ Would X 's acts have been excused if these were the facts ? ’ |
| 20 | Druidism was , however , only a small portion of Posidonius ' picture of Celtic society , and we must ask ourselves what impression such a picture would make on his contemporaries . |
| 21 | All the time we must ask ourselves : " Is the Present a long enough key to penetrate the deep lock of the Past ? " |
| 22 | At some stage we must ask ourselves , ‘ Is this really the EC that we asked people to join ? ’ |
| 23 | We must ask ourselves : who are the perpetrators of these offences , and what are their motives ? |
| 24 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Have we made sufficient progress for one year 's deliberations and hard work ? ’ |
| 25 | Under the American Cyanamid decision the court must ask itself whether the plaintiff has shown ( a ) a serious question to be tried and ( b ) that the ‘ balance of convenience ’ is in his favour . |