Example sentences of "be asked about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawing on Reid 's thinking , Halpin ( 1980 ) poses four questions to be asked about the approach to curriculum review advocated by the HMI in Curriculum 11–16 . |
| 2 | War , indeed , caused questions to be asked about the nobility 's role in it . |
| 3 | Major questions may be asked about the pace of the expected implementation of the policy . |
| 4 | But Cleveland County Council 's development chairman said ‘ very serious questions ’ had to be asked about the plan for the Marton area . |
| 5 | One of the interesting questions that can be asked about the curriculum has to do with the relative power and influence of these various actors in the planning process ; for example , in their study , Boys et al . |
| 6 | The nature of this decoding device is shown in Figure 4 ; it is complicated , but unfortunately one must understand the complications in order to understand some of the fundamental questions that can be asked about the nature , origin , and evolution of the code . |
| 7 | Pupils will also be asked about the nature and frequency of their use of a home-computer and their experience of CAL . |
| 8 | Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry ( it can not be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive ) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering . |
| 9 | Questions could be asked about the failure of the NRA to include in its cost estimate the sum of £6 million of taxpayers ' money that it has already spent promoting the scheme , or it could consider any of the indirect costs arising from the construction of the channel . |
| 10 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 11 | In short , if the LDDC is seen to epitomize the UDCs , then there are questions to be asked about the effectiveness of this form of intervention . |