Example sentences of "asks [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He asks the question again , but I do n't say nothing .
2 Rasmussen ( 1982:3 ) asks the question ‘ … that might be raised today … is why erosion remains a severe problem after forty-five years of cooperative efforts by farmers and the federal government to solve it ’ .
3 Features camera developments at the popular end of the market and asks the question ‘ Do you remember your first camera ? ’
4 Impingement asks the question , where does the self end ( or begin ) ?
5 Instead he proposes an approach that asks the question ‘ How do these people deal with certain basic human predicaments ? ’ and makes the pertinent point that ‘ the problem is not the quality we have isolated , e.g. , aggression , but how far we can get with an adequate description of what we have found ’ .
6 These are just examples of er of of of question of answers to questions Burn asks the question which I 've just asked , why then does low turn out persist , cos he 's just made the point above that there are big issues in local government .
7 If one asks the question , ‘ Who decides what is a piece of ‘ good ’ writing ? ’ one is back to Leavis 's statements about the ‘ morally sensitive ’ reader .
8 Editor , — Stephen Brearley asks the question ‘ How many doctors does Britain need by 2010 ? ’
9 Household Choices , Colin Shaw 's contribution to a joint venture between the Victoria and Albert Museum and Middlesex Polytechnic , which asks the question : What makes a house a home ?
10 When the new specification is raised the network asks the question ‘ is it successful in meeting the market need profitably ? ’
11 The poem is then brought to a very high climax in the end , when Owen asks the question ,
12 Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ?
13 Saul asks the voice to identify itself .
14 In the households of the small master clothiers of the West Riding woollen manufacture , though not in its differently organised worsted branch , the wives , daughters and female servants may well have spun wool for the household 's own cloth — " Prithie , who mun sit at bobbin weel ? " asks the wife in a poem of 1730 when set another task by her husband — but even so yarn had still to be taken in from other spinners .
15 ‘ Would you mind , ’ asks the knocker at his most oleaginous , ‘ if Her Majesty borrowed some of these paintings for a charity exhibition we are holding locally ? ’
16 The closest thing to an acknowledgement of what this might be comes at the end of the splendid description of a whale-hunt , which has all the care for technical precision of a Del Giudice ( 71–7 ) , when the old whaler asks the narrator why he wanted to join the expedition that day , whether it was just out of curiosity ( 76–7 ) .
17 First the head teacher asks the girl to put her allegations in writing .
18 And eyewitnesses are also influenced by the way the interrogator asks the questions , as Elizabeth Loftus at the University of Washington has shown .
19 She also asks the questions what is a good parent ?
20 But in the classroom , the roles are often reversed : the person who asks the questions is the one who is assumed to be more knowledgeable .
21 The teacher asks the questions ; the pupil supplies the answer ; the teacher makes a confirming or dismissive comment or gesture .
22 Bob asks the questions then explains how the youngsters maintain his enthusiasm .
23 Bob asks the questions then explains how the youngsters maintain his enthusiasm .
24 ‘ Why is it , do you think , that there 's been this incredible reaction to Phar Lap 's death ? ’ asks the reporter : ‘ After all , he was just a horse . ’
25 gives a task to an unsupervised number group and asks the nursery nurse who should be with them how long she will be ;
26 ‘ If the Secretary of State asks the NGC to state their preferred route , it could save the inquiry a lot of time and money . ’
27 So erm , the report asks the Committee for their views , because I think it would be a worthwhile thing to do .
28 Closing the sale asks the buyer to say yes or no .
29 The carer then asks the patient to clasp his hands together , and helps him to do this .
30 To help the patient gain control of his leg movements , the physiotherapist places the hemiplegic leg in certain positions , and asks the patient to maintain the position , checking that he can do so without an increase in spasticity .
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