Example sentences of "be asked [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see . |
| 2 | Should councils be asked to relieve the public sector borrowing requirement of that burden of long-term debt by transferring it and their balances to housing associations ? |
| 3 | ‘ It would be wrong for water users in the next five to ten years to be asked to finance the whole cost of projects which have been neglected in the past and which may be expected to last for 30 , 50 or even 100 years . |
| 4 | Some children might be asked to predict the two-dimensional shape that will be produced from the three-dimensional shape . |
| 5 | Finally , two sets of adults most involved with the formal teaching of ‘ stranger-danger ’ , viz. primary schoolteachers and community involvement police officers , will be asked to repeat the experimental tasks , predicting how children would respond , in order to compare their predictions with the children 's actual responses . |
| 6 | R. S. Wood argued that ‘ Mean and meagre planning will be disregarded and officials ’ views discounted , and others will be asked to design the New Jerusalem' . |
| 7 | She may even be asked to visualise the whole incident in a different way . |
| 8 | If the doctor overspends , he or she may be asked to explain the medical reasons for this to another doctor . |
| 9 | You will be asked to let the Environmental Health Officer and the Occupational Therapist know when the work starts . |
| 10 | If you are hit on the head by a pot of paint whilst walking under a ladder you would not be asked to show the precise act of negligence that caused the paint to fall ; it goes without saying that someone had been negligent . |
| 11 | I disagree with the idea that someone on my salary should be asked to contribute the same as the person next door , who is probably earning only half as much . |
| 12 | Few , however , could have imagined that the man who once served as chairman of Clitheroe Young Conservatives would be asked to don the cocked hat and plumes of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda . |
| 13 | General Noriega had been asked to leave the Papal mission but would not be forced to leave , Vatican spokesmen insisted . |
| 14 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 15 | Imagine that you have been asked to translate the above extract for inclusion in a review of the book , to be published in one of the leading newspapers in your country . |
| 16 | The plant opened just three years ago and Conner has n't been asked to repay the millions of pounds of grant aid its received . |
| 17 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 18 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 19 | The reunion was a great success and Keith and joint organiser Jeryl Whitelock , who is a lecturer in International Marketing at Salford have already been asked to organise the next one in five years time , when the graduates will mark the twentieth anniversary of successfully completing the degree . |
| 20 | As a result , the initating member has been asked to contact the participating member to elicit general or specifically defined acquisition advisery assistance , which could take the form of : |
| 21 | We are asked to state the constitutional importance of this power possessed by the Government . |
| 22 | This will be the case if , for example , you are asked to perform the same job at the same rate of pay but at a different office or factory and the move is catered for by a mobility clause in your contract . |
| 23 | Later , when The Mary Chain are asked to perform the same feat , Jim Reid says he 'll only do it if members of The Travelling Circus snort his diarrhoea . |
| 24 | Copies of Figure 11.3 are given to the sender and receivers and they are asked to repeat the first exercise using Figure 11.4 as the data to be transmitted . |
| 25 | They are asked to develop the double glazing for Mercedes on a non-exclusive basis and they offer it to us , ’ says Reitzle . |
| 26 | Staff are asked to note the following procedures : |
| 27 | In order to help rationalise computer support activities , which have been rather overloaded recently , staff are asked to observe the following procedures . |
| 28 | It is planned to add further items to the tape in future and any regional teams who would like to record any of their work are asked to contact the Steering Committee . |
| 29 | Sports shops are stocking up on odd trainers as worn by the pint-sized star — leaving parents to foot a bill of around £160 when they are asked to provide the ill-matching black and white pairs . |
| 30 | All students are asked to complete the confidential Medical Questionnaire on page 31 , and return it before 27 September 1991 to the Medical Officer on the campus which you will be attending . |