Example sentences of "[conj] asks [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daddy sits a lot , doing nothing and muttering to himself and Mummy 's just retreated — she never starts a conversation , or asks a question , or — You 'd think they 'd be over-anxious about me , their one remaining child and perhaps they are , but they have miserable ways of showing it . |
| 2 | A technique for ensuring pupil participation , in which one student asks a question or makes a statement to the student seated next to him , who in turn makes a statement or asks a question of the student seated next to him . |
| 3 | Instead he proposes an approach that asks the question ‘ How do these people deal with certain basic human predicaments ? ’ and makes the pertinent point that ‘ the problem is not the quality we have isolated , e.g. , aggression , but how far we can get with an adequate description of what we have found ’ . |
| 4 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 5 | gives a task to an unsupervised number group and asks the nursery nurse who should be with them how long she will be ; |
| 6 | In the present summonses Glasgow seeks declarations that the court has no jurisdiction over it in respect of these claims , and asks the court to order that the actions be dismissed . |
| 7 | Features camera developments at the popular end of the market and asks the question ‘ Do you remember your first camera ? ’ |
| 8 | erm The police have often described themselves as erm in the following way , that society throws its problems into the dustbin and asks the policeman to sit on the lid . |
| 9 | To help the patient gain control of his leg movements , the physiotherapist places the hemiplegic leg in certain positions , and asks the patient to maintain the position , checking that he can do so without an increase in spasticity . |
| 10 | Stead ( 1980 : 305 ) , like Mervyn Jones ( 1980 ) , has also pointed out how police organization attributes low status to beat work , and asks the service to reconsider the value of the patrol officer : |
| 11 | It calls for financial support for agriculture to be targeted at coastal habitat creation and management , and asks the Government to produce a clear national strategy on rising sea levels . |
| 12 | She decides to experiment and asks the computer to compare photographs of thousands of hands , with surprising — and frightening — results . |
| 13 | The Council " also discussed further-reaching reforms on the role of the European Parliament and asks the conference to consider developing co-decision procedures for acts of a legislative nature , within the framework of the hierarchy of Community acts . |
| 14 | Robyn 's student , Marion Russell , wearing a long , shapeless black overcoat and carrying a plastic holdall , hurriedly enters a large building in the commercial centre of Rummidge and asks the security man at the desk for directions . |
| 15 | It dismisses the argument — previously relied on by the profession — that the public needs educating about the scope of the audit ; instead , it embraces all the criticisms , whether justified or not , and asks the world what it wants the Board to do about them . |
| 16 | The teacher steps out of role and asks the children a question : |
| 17 | The teacher will take on the role of the merman , but asks the children : " How do you want me to look ? |