Example sentences of "asked to name " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked to name the highest mountain in Europe most people , I imagine , would nominate Mont Blanc . |
| 2 | TOWARDS the end of a week of stocktaking at the Stuttgart Classic , in which some of the world 's leading male players have expressed mixed feelings about the way professional tennis is moving into the next decade , Boris Becker was asked to name his player of the 1980s . |
| 3 | Asked to name the title of the first episode of Monty Python 's Flying Circus on BBCTV , only three readers correctly answered ‘ Whither Canada ’ ; many more correctly completed the Lumberjack Song verse as ‘ he puts on women 's clothing and hangs around in bars ’ . |
| 4 | The benefit for Cornhill was its ‘ awareness level ’ ( the number of people who mentioned it when asked to name an insurance company ) , which shot up from 2 per cent in 1977 to 17 per cent in 1981 . |
| 5 | During one of the many radio interviews he undertakes during the week , he is asked to name the first record he ever bought for a programme called Super DJ On Line . |
| 6 | ‘ If I were asked to name the most important date in the history of the human race , I would answer without hesitation August 6 1945 . |
| 7 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 8 | The second group , however , when asked to name a vegetable after the recitation , all answered ‘ carrot ’ . |
| 9 | If you were asked to name countries in which volcanoes occur , you would probably think of places such as Japan , Iceland , Hawaii , Italy , New Zealand and so on . |
| 10 | WHEN THE GODS WERE ASKED TO NAME AN AUSPICIOUS DAY FOR the sheep to go south to Aula for the six months of winter , they had said the twenty-second of Kārtik , November the sixth . |
| 11 | Then , in a seance , one cold and perfectly clear starlit night , the gods were asked to name the day to go to Aula . |
| 12 | Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying . |
| 13 | The child is asked to name the letters on the chart beginning with the top line . |
| 14 | Asked to name the worst aspect of being Curator of the Tate , Serota had no answer . |
| 15 | But put a World War Two zealot into the dark recesses of the incredible Paul Garber Storage Museum ( NASM ) in Maryland and the chances are he will ‘ freeze ’ when asked to name the treasures therein . |
| 16 | That should not be surprising , because when asked to name one favourite flower , beautiful above all others , again there can be little doubt that most people — in Britain at any rate , and whether gardeners or not — would choose the rose . |
| 17 | Asked to name a market which could show real growth of 4% a year during the 1990s and expand by a half over the decade , few would suggest mechanical engineering . |
| 18 | Asked to name the most romantic thing he has ever done , the man who melts hearts warms to his theme — and tells of his own teenage moonlight serenade . |
| 19 | Some constituencies were multiparty ones — the Tehran constituency being an extreme example , with voters being asked to name 30 candidates of their choice . |
| 20 | After each trial in the location task , the subject was asked to name the position of the dot according to grid numbers mounted on the tachistoscope . |
| 21 | At Bayeux in 1946 he had quoted the ancient Greek lawmaker Solon , who was asked to name the best constitution and replied : " Tell me first for which people and in which era . " |
| 22 | None of the sample group were asked to name the candidates standing for the Liberal Democrats , Green Party and British National Party . |
| 23 | I named a duck I had this letter come no no no no , I had this letter come , right , and it said now they 've got this duck and they did n't know what to call it and so Gemma said well I think erm Eileen , Auntie Eileen ought to name it so I , I was asked to name this duck . |