Sentence examples for a question sought from inspiring English sources

His knowledge in his field was extraordinary and everyone with a question sought out his expertise.

It used to be that H.R. was a single, physical place that workers could visit — to pick up a form, ask a question, seek advice, lodge a complaint.

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.

A further question sought to establish whether patients using CAM disclose this use to their physicians.

Given the seasonal variation in refereeing frequency, a second question sought the number of games refereed in the preceding 4 weeks, where it was seen that 18% had officiated at 4 or more games per week.

A follow-up question sought Blatter's view of possible crisis within FIFA.