Example sentences of "[noun] be asked [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 2 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 3 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 4 | After completing the restructuring of British Steel , Finniston was asked to draw up the group 's first corporate plan . |
| 5 | Since the imperial poet Da Ponte had fallen out of favour at the Viennese court , and had left in disgrace , his temporary successor Caterino Mazzolà was asked to freshen up the old warhorse for a new setting , while Guardasoni rushed to Italy to find suitable singers . |
| 6 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 7 | While the work carried out by Touche Ross is now open to criticism , in fairness , that firm was asked to carry out the work within an unreasonably short timescale . |
| 8 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |
| 9 | When the students were asked to pick out the photograph that most resembled them , they usually selected the most flattering one . |
| 10 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |