Example sentences of "asking for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , they are asking for no compulsory redundancies , and are arguing with BR management about whether this can fairly be interpreted as asking for jobs for a lifetime . |
| 2 | Eventually English Heritage joined with the National Heritage Memorial fund offering to buy the house and asking for no funding from the government ( although possibly in the long term , additional monies would have had to have been found for the running of the house ) . |
| 3 | In fact , she was asking for no more than American colleges everywhere asked of their alumni , and many Americans had benefited from the Oxford system . |
| 4 | She had actually thought of asking for no less than John now proposed ; so why did it feel like a slap in the face ? |
| 5 | I 'm not asking for a few soothing words to calm my conscience ; if I can , I want to help . |
| 6 | He has written to Marstons managing director Michael Hurdle , asking for a meeting to express the branch 's concern . |
| 7 | Engineering workers are also asking for a ‘ substantial rise ’ in pay . |
| 8 | The £172,000 prop failed to appear for Leeds on Sunday , and yesterday confirmed his disenchantment at Headingley by asking for a move . |
| 9 | ‘ I had been advised to mark everything up by 20 per cent , ’ Alistair Sampson said , ‘ because the clients ’ decorators would come round afterwards asking for a cut . |
| 10 | and another voice was asking for a priest . |
| 11 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 12 | On his first visit to Washington in September , the Second Channel demonstrated his piety by asking for a rug to pray on on the Friday evening ; Craig Coy , wonderingly , lent him his gym towel . |
| 13 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |
| 14 | ‘ Capitalism , the money-lenders and the greedy elite have been allowed to subvert the democratic process , ’ he railed at a crowd on Wall Street , asking for a cleansing of the temple and drawing swift accusations of anti-semitism . |
| 15 | John MacLean , the Llanelli chairman and a national representative of the WRU , said : ‘ I 'm disappointed with the decision and I shall be asking for a detailed explanation of the management committee 's decision . ’ |
| 16 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 17 | On leaving the Ayrshire Yeomanry and asking for a Middle East posting , he had sailed on the Queen Mary around the Cape of Good Hope and had docked at Durban . |
| 18 | After twice refusing , he finally agreed to the demand of a petition of over 10,000 names asking for a session of the inquiry to be held in Bristol . |
| 19 | On 2 July 1870 , the candidacy of Leopold was made known publicly to all European courts and the French government reacted immediately by asking for a clear and positive statement by the Prussian government as to their attitude to Leopold 's acceptance of the Spanish throne . |
| 20 | Perhaps it will be both rather more demanding and more flexible than some , asking for a few hours a year but with more emphasis on personal planning . |
| 21 | He was with Wilson Staff in those days , and they had written asking for a good caddie for the centenary Open . |
| 22 | The company turned to the council asking for a £100,000 loan . |
| 23 | Asking for a written statement is often a prelude to presenting an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 24 | He got the board to take the initiative in asking for a League inquiry , hoping that in return the sentence would be a light one . |
| 25 | The housewarming dinner was arranged for Sunday 23 July 1797 , and on the day before , Coleridge scribbled a hasty , high-spirited note to Tom Poole asking for a promised fore quarter of lamb to be sent over to ‘ the Foxes ’ in the morning . |
| 26 | When scientists ask why something happens , they are asking for a general causal account . |
| 27 | In most professions it was suicide to admit to being a homosexual , and in some macho jobs like bricklaying it was probably asking for a brick to be dropped upon one 's head . |
| 28 | I did not fancy approaching any of the holiday cruisers — a bit like knocking on a caravan door and asking for a bed . |
| 29 | asking for a receipt or other proof of purchase |
| 30 | by writing to a manufacturer , or using a printed enquiry form , asking for a quotation |