His knowledge in his field was extraordinary and everyone with a question sought out his expertise.
The jockey's father, Aidan, trainer of Australia, was lobbed a question seeking a mawkish response, inviting him to say how wonderful it was to win such a big race with a family member in the saddle.
Part of the reason may be that (5c) is most naturally interpreted as a question seeking information, and, as just mentioned, this is considered to be highly marked (or unacceptable) by speakers who use the construction.
When Watson gave "Toronto" instead of "Chicago" in answer to a question seeking an American airport, it missed the vital hint because it came in the category title – an often cryptic field it had been trained to treat as unlikely to provide essential information.
"WTAMU recently modified its transfer application to include a question seeking information about any prior disciplinary history an applicant may have from any school, college or university," Knox said.
We also included a question seeking respondents' permission to be contacted by the research team for a one-off face-to-face interview about their employment, health and wellbeing.
If a question seeks factual or statistical information that is already available to Parliament's research services, it shall not be forwarded to the addressee but rather to those services, unless the President decides otherwise upon request by the author.
So given that, and given how I had seen - just in that room, and in the tortured process it had taken to set up the interview - the devotion shown by his followers, I asked a pointed question, seeking a direct answer.
Another way of asking a justification question seeks not a normative connection between qualities of persons and moral obligation, but an explanation for our belief that humans (and perhaps other beings) are owed respect, for example: What in our experience of other humans or in our evolutionary history explains the development and power of this belief?
While an ordinary question seeks information or an answer from the hearer, a rhetorical question does not expect to elicit an answer.
