Example sentences of "must ask ourselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to continue with a system of grants for specific operations on the land we must ask ourselves whether , in many crofting areas , we would not get better land use , and a greater benefit to the nation , if we grant-aided amenity planting on the in-bye land to improve the appearance of the villages . |
| 2 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Why did these three young men undertake this task ? ’ |
| 3 | His conclusions are stark : ‘ … a basic profit statement or balance sheet of any company conveys meaningless information … some [ accountants ] are definitely doing conjuring tricks and manipulating figures and the rest hopelessly losing their balance in utter confusion … we must ask ourselves whether we should be constrained by our accounting numbers and take a negative stance which dampens all entrepreneurial spirit . ’ |
| 4 | If — and it is a very big ‘ if ’ — the matter sucked into a black hole must reappear somewhere and somewhen else , we must ask ourselves what the other end of the ‘ tunnel ’ would be like . |
| 5 | Further , we must ask ourselves , do we really want total honesty in communication ? |
| 6 | Again we must ask ourselves , ‘ Which war was that ? ’ |
| 7 | We have first to pretend that , in the event of A wrongfully directing an innocent person X to do something to B 's goods , A is in the position of a finder or custodian of the goods ; and then we must ask ourselves , ‘ Would X 's acts have been excused if these were the facts ? ’ |
| 8 | Druidism was , however , only a small portion of Posidonius ' picture of Celtic society , and we must ask ourselves what impression such a picture would make on his contemporaries . |
| 9 | All the time we must ask ourselves : " Is the Present a long enough key to penetrate the deep lock of the Past ? " |
| 10 | At some stage we must ask ourselves , ‘ Is this really the EC that we asked people to join ? ’ |
| 11 | We must ask ourselves : who are the perpetrators of these offences , and what are their motives ? |
| 12 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Have we made sufficient progress for one year 's deliberations and hard work ? ’ |