Example sentences of "be ask of [det] " in BNC.

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1 And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’
2 ‘ Questions will be asked of all their players individually , but if anyone can cope with it , Brian can .
3 Earlier this year a pay freeze was agreed by the factory employees and similar restraint will be asked of all other employees , at all levels , around the world .
4 Since rhetoric involves argumentation , then a basic question should be asked of any political discourse which appears to be using a rhetoric traditionally associated with the critics , rather than supporters , of the discourse : is the speaker or writer actually arguing against their own ideological tradition , or are they using a complex rhetoric to conduct an argument within their own tradition ?
5 Within this region , as Professor Hoskins suggested , there are various names and alignments which raise questions in the mind of any landscape historian , questions which could be asked of any part of England .
6 Little if anything beyond these qualities can be asked of any teacher or manager .
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