Example sentences of "asked by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When acting on an acquisition , MAS may be asked by the prospective vendors to sign a confidentiality agreement . |
| 2 | As recently as last year , Anderson was asked by the Ugandan government to advise on the restructuring of the civil service there , following the turmoil of recent years . |
| 3 | Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft . |
| 4 | He was rudely asked by the first caller , ‘ Do you feel that you come across OK ? |
| 5 | SIR GEOFFREY LITTLER , a former Treasury official and currently a director of NatWest Investment Bank , has been asked by the International Stock Exchange to head a committee which will develop proposals for a clearing house in securities . |
| 6 | Asked by the All Africa Press Service why the NCCK , which groups together over 35 Protestant churches in Kenya , is taking such a leading role in the democratic process , Mr Kobia said : |
| 7 | I understand there are problems er but as a general principle it does seem to me that it 's something that needs to be looked at and the minister has said that a lot of these matters will be dealt with by a statement of practice and er he was asked by the honourable gentleman , the member for South Hams I think , er er er what the status of er these people were . |
| 8 | In this way , delegates were able to see both the kinds of questions being asked by the wider conference and the form of solutions that were being proposed . |
| 9 | Like the exiled Scots sitting up in bed with his cap on in Sidney Royal Infirmary , asked by the retired sister who visited people like him who had no friends how old he was , he says ninety two . |
| 10 | The brewery was asked by the Civil War Centre to sponsor two of the key events in the pageant — the entry of King Charles and his Scottish army into Worcester in 1651 and his escape from the city when Cromwell 's forces routed his troops . |
| 11 | But his horizons were dramatically broadened when he joined British Steel and was asked by the late Lord Melchett , who was then chairman , to reorganise the fourteen widely dispersed companies that had been put into the same melting pot under the nationalisation programme . |
| 12 | Chateaubriand , who happened to be visiting Arenenberg was asked by the young author for his opinion of the work , and the great writer graciously suggested that it would be improved if , where the word ‘ people ’ occurred , the Prince were to replace it with ‘ nation ’ . |
| 13 | JAPANESE , American and other foreign scientists are being asked by the European Commission to sit in judgement on the effectiveness of the EEC 's £250 million annual research programme . |
| 14 | The first part of the question that was asked by the hon. Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) was in order , but the second part was out of order , as was the second part of the question asked by his hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley ( Mr. Riddick ) . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister refused to answer that question , which was asked by the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) . |
| 16 | Will the Leader of the House arrange for a statement by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on yesterday 's meeting of the Anglo-Irish intergovernmental conference , especially in the light of the Prime Minister 's failure to respond to the second part of the question that was asked by the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) ? |
| 17 | This was precisely the approach Pearce adopted when he was asked by the Conservative Government to become chairman of British Aerospace in 1980 to prepare it for privatisation . |
| 18 | As late as 1931 the inhabitants of Polesia , when asked by the Polish census officials about their nationality , quite failed to understand the question . |
| 19 | Jacques had already put in a plea to this effect in December 1954 , when asked by the National WEA officers to state his ideal requirements at the time of negotiations with the Ministry following the Ashby Report . |
| 20 | The work in setting up sanctuaries for threatened chimps began when she was asked by the American ambassador in Burundi to design a conservation plan . |