Example sentences of "[am/are] asked [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're asked to analyse some concept , it wo n't be sufficient merely to describe it . |
| 2 | And you 're asked to complete this work in pairs if it 's easier . |
| 3 | Okay , we 're asked to approve these terms in para four three , is anyone backing it ? |
| 4 | The issue gets even more complicated when I 'm asked to define multiple orgasm . |
| 5 | The committee are asked to support this initiative by to develop the sustainable regional transport policy and to appoint the chairman and two other committee members to attend the conference being arranged in March nineteen ninety four . |
| 6 | The University will assume that it is free to approach referees at any stage unless the candidate 's application stipulates otherwise ( i.e. candidates who wish a referee or referees to be approached only with their specific permission and/or if they are being called for interview on the final short list or are in receipt of a conditional offer , are asked to state such requirements explicitly alongside the details of the relevant referee(s) ) . |
| 7 | Respondents are asked to tick those statements that apply to themselves or to give a mini-rating such as ‘ usually/sometimes/never ’ . |
| 8 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |
| 9 | It was pointed out that the official procedure for collating Garden computer equipment bids remained within the remit of cost centre managers , who are asked to submit supplementary estimates when making their own Departmental submissions . |
| 10 | They are asked to create still images of an incident they saw on one of their journeys back in time , as if these were holographic , three dimensional pictures . |
| 11 | Remember that this is the only national fundraising that we are asked to do each year and that this year HQ are allowing us to keep 20% of the cash for our branch funds … so come along the other 75% , let's find those books of tickets and get the stubs ( and the £2 ) to , |
| 12 | I 've just got another bit of paper a note saying please note while you are at college you are asked to do four hours overtime and that 's not a contract , it 's just a letter . |
| 13 | Teachers are asked to give serious thought to attending the Summer Course at Green Park , Bucks. , if at all possible Full particulars are in the leaflet on courses of which you had a copy . |
| 14 | Now we are asked to consider this proposition in the face of local opposition which ranges from sullen resentment to armed threat — said local opposition being only some 25 supersonic minutes away for that bogeyman of the south Atlantic airways , the Super Etendard jet fighter . |
| 15 | A Potential Teachers Day will be held on 4th July 1987 at — all Q.T. 's are asked to encourage likely candidates to attend — forms giving venue details and cost are available from the Office . |
| 16 | Suppliers are asked to identify all payments that OUP will be expected to make , and all revenues which OUP may expect to receive as a result of entering the proposed relationship . |
| 17 | Although this is not a matter in respect of which we are asked to grant any relief , I believe that Lautro should reconsider its practice in this respect , and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application . |
| 18 | The other comes when the customary ways and limits of power are altered , when subjects are presented with new and disturbing uses of power and are asked to assume new burdens and accept new claims . |
| 19 | This rather convoluted question fits a particular pattern which it is useful to familiarise yourself with : ( a ) a quote captures a general perception ; then ( b ) you are asked about some other writer ( or invited to select a writer ) where it is plausible to think the quote may be relevant ; then ( c ) you are asked to discuss this second writer in the light of the quote . |
| 20 | attention decrement : subjects may ‘ hold on ’ to initial words because they get distracted or bored when they are asked to process sequential information , hence they do n't pay attention to later words . |
| 21 | Candidates are asked to note this date |
| 22 | It is bad enough when people are asked to work long hours . |
| 23 | And when children are asked to find possible labels for categories that lack conventional terms , they freely coin innovative nouns upon demand ( e.g. , Clark and Berman , 1984 ; Clark and Hecht , 1982 ; Clark , Hecht and Mulford , 1986 ; Mulford , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | Where it breaks down and you get a governing body that is split down the middle , where you get staff who tend to who might tend to go in an opposite way to the head teacher , where you get parents who are asked to make difficult decisions as with an opt out ballot , then I think that you have to look very hard at the way that that school is managed and the way that it 's going in the future , because those are the sort of issues that unless you get those right the future for the school can not be as bright as it is for one where they are working as a team . |
| 25 | In general , we are asked to pay higher salaries to experienced , but ‘ unqualified ’ , technicians than we are to inexperienced but highly ‘ qualified ’ architects of the same age . |