Example sentences of "be asked the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it has been pointed out that one person can not be asked the same question twice , the second time he is not the same person because he has already been asked the question once . |
| 2 | Erm and those people who have been asked the specific question , Would you pay a premium price for this water as against that which you 're drinking ? said yes . |
| 3 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 4 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 5 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 6 | Martin Braine found that if children between five and six years of age are shown a standard visual illusion — such as a stick in water appearing to be broken , by light refraction — they will distinguish correctly between ‘ looks ? ’ and ‘ really ? ’ questions , but that if they are asked the neutral question ‘ Is the stick straight or broken ? ’ they will say that it is broken . |
| 7 | On being asked the second time by the farmer how the machine worked , the old worker said : ‘ It be whoolly fine now , maaster . |
| 8 | After watching a film of a car accident some subjects were asked the two questions in ( 3 ) . |
| 9 | 42% said they were actively doing something to ‘ avoid getting TB ’ and were asked the open-ended question ‘ what are you doing to avoid getting TB ? ’ . |
| 10 | Subjects were asked the open-ended question : ‘ why do you think there is more TB going around recently ? ’ . |
| 11 | Accordingly , they were asked the direct question : " Would you describe this as science fiction ? " |
| 12 | The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all . |
| 13 | Respondents were asked the further question , ‘ What did you do when you had the problem for some time ? ’ |
| 14 | Lieutenant-general Wolfgang Schwanitz , the new head of the Office for National Security , the former Stasi , was asked the other day why he had not opposed and exposed excesses when he was deputy head of the organisation . |
| 15 | The young pilot had the grey filly nicely placed to make his winning move around the two furlong mark and when the question was asked the English-trained miler was the one with all the answers . |
| 16 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |