Example sentences of "ask [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Robin Ibbs was loaned from ICI and asked to sort out the civil service . |
| 2 | A protagonist asked to play out a scene from her own life in a psycho-drama session may be too anxious about what will emerge to ‘ play the game ’ spontaneously . |
| 3 | Chelmsford Pest Control service technicians Ron Long and Danny O'Mara were recently asked to carry out a fly treatment at a water treatment plant . |
| 4 | Chief officers have been asked to carry out a survey of people who would like to work reduced hours for less pay if it can be done without hitting the service to the public . |
| 5 | ‘ Green audit ’ call to businesses BUSINESSES in Middlesbrough are being asked to carry out a ‘ green audit ’ as part of the town 's Environment City year . |
| 6 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 7 | Subjects were then asked to carry out the following manoeuvres : ( 1 ) maximum voluntary contraction of the sphincter for 20 seconds ; ( 2 ) strain as if to defecate for at least five seconds ; and ( 3 ) increase intra-abdominal pressure by forcibly expiring against a resistance ( blowing up a party baloon ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The American firm , United Research Group , was asked to carry out an efficiency study of the supplies department , which buys hospital equipment . |
| 10 | As a result the IMS was asked to carry out an initial study and advise on the feasibility of setting up a suitable PMIS for the BAA . |
| 11 | For example , you are often asked to write down the numbers of the questions answered in the order in which they are attempted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 14 | Look at the question in Figure 2A ; you are asked to work out the transfer price , but first you must work out what volume the group should operate at . |
| 15 | According to Donald Dewar , the shadow social security secretary , those on benefit and low pay are being ‘ asked to bail out a Tory chancellor ’ . |
| 16 | I have also been asked to pass on the request of one of the nearby residents for the latch to be replaced on the playing field gates . |
| 17 | B. Chrystal will be asked to set up a meeting under the auspices of the Village Association in connection with the noise and vandalism so prevalent around the school annexe , village hall , public part etc . |
| 18 | When the students were asked to pick out the photograph that most resembled them , they usually selected the most flattering one . |
| 19 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 20 | A volunteer A , B and C ( not from the same original group ) are then asked to play out the scene centrally . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Simon Grant , branch manager at Retail Cleaning in Bristol was recently asked to help out the annual Children in Need appeal by one of his customers , the manager at the East Gate Centre in Gloucester . |
| 23 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 24 | The winner would be asked to draw up a specification for the mainframe by the end of the year , at which time two local partners would be chosen to design and build it . |
| 25 | At the December 1974 summit of Community leaders in Paris the Belgian premier , Leo Tindemans , was asked to draw up a personal report on the future shape of a European Union . |
| 26 | After completing the restructuring of British Steel , Finniston was asked to draw up the group 's first corporate plan . |
| 27 | You will then be asked to fill out a loan application form with information such as your name and address , where you work , your income and outgoings , etc. banks do n't always ask you to deposit security or collateral to back a loan : they generally rely on their assessment of your ability to repay . |
| 28 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 29 | When Melrose was asked to fill in a further application he refused to do so saying all the relevant information had been sent to NSWRU . |
| 30 | DURING one of his many interrogations by the police , Mikhail Ardzinov , the deputy chairman of Uzbekistan 's Human Rights Society , was asked to fill in a form with basic information about himself , including his address . |