Example sentences of "ask such " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we would n't even have thought of asking such a question . |
| 2 | The possibility of asking such questions shows how far the courts have to go in dealing with the issues raised by representative standing . |
| 3 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 4 | One reason why it is worth asking such questions is that ready answers may be found . |
| 5 | Too often senior managers get carried away measuring features of the service system , for example , the numbers of doctors and nurses per head of population , rather than asking such questions as : ‘ Is the community team 's service available twenty-four hours per day ? ’ |
| 6 | Rincewind wondered if it was poisonous , then chided himself for asking such a silly question . |
| 7 | The analyst will be asking such questions as : |
| 8 | Why did he speak in riddles ; ask such annoying questions ? |
| 9 | Suppose I ask such and such , and why is the floor manager waving his arms about ? ’ |
| 10 | JERVIS : I wonder , sir , you ask such a question . |
| 11 | If you ask such a child " How should we respond to the aliens ' request for help ? " s/he 's not likely to respond very articulately . |
| 12 | Roddick calls it the Marcel Proust questionnaire and it asks such unlikely questions as : How would you like to die ? |
| 13 | I 'm not surprised with all that dashing around , he asks such a lot of you Lynn and I ca n't understand why he 's like that when he says he loves you and everything , and he wants |
| 14 | When I have asked such questions , I have invariably discovered a signpost from the past , which has enabled me to find my own way forward . |
| 15 | And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing . |
| 16 | ‘ They 'll be asked such things as — Is quality your responsibility or that of your manager ? |
| 17 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 18 | Patients will be asked such diverse questions as their first reaction to hospital , the food , ward temperature and how they were treated . |
| 19 | there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing . |
| 20 | In the warm intimacy of the café Erika felt emboldened to ask such a question . |
| 21 | And Gaily took her quick reply for unwillingness , too , and decided that they did not know one another well enough yet to ask such questions , such casual , family questions , as between friends . |
| 22 | 5 Which of the following notions would you say was the most frequent reason why intelligent people fail to ask such questions ? |
| 23 | Answer : it is a mistake to ask such questions , because they lead you into the murky borderland between history and myth , where the evidence is fragmentary and the fragments point in different directions . |
| 24 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 25 | Classical scholars can be trusted to ask such questions . |
| 26 | For the hon. Gentleman to have the nerve to ask such a question when he was undoubtedly one of those who voted successively for large cuts in our defence expenditure , is mind-boggling . |
| 27 | I do not wish in any way to criticise you , and I appreciate that I applied today to ask such a question — |
| 28 | ‘ But nevertheless , ’ she interrupted brittly , ‘ you felt fit to ask such an irrelevant question . |
| 29 | Users , he says , should ask such questions as : does NT run on the platform I want ; do I have input into how NT is developed ; and is Microsoft committed to open standards ? |
| 30 | ‘ You can ask such a question ! |