Such questions can be asked, for instance, in scenarios, such as the one described above.
If you have a special skill, it's virtually guaranteed that you will be pressed into service with that skill eventually - if the kids are in Scouts, you may be asked, for instance, if you could do a presentation for the Scout troop on How To Make a Living As... (fill in your profession).
The bishops were asked, for instance, to express their desires on a revision of the laws governing fasting and abstinence.
In 2013, Knight was asked, for instance, how the British Bankers Associationn (BBA), led by her throughout the financial crisis, could continue to be responsible for the BBA Libor rate, following the Barclays scandal.
When Nevelson is asked, for instance, whether she wanted another child after her botched first stab at motherhood, he has her answer, "I didn't know who I was yet, so there's no hand for anybody to take hold of".
Visitors are asked, for instance, if they would provide special transport services to large companies seeking to relocate.
Over the past decade or so, a choice design in which a person is asked to select both the best and the worst option in an available set of options has been gaining favor over more traditional designs, such as where the person is asked, for instance, to: select the best option; select the worst option; rank the options; or rate the options.
Britain is asked, for instance, to explain how the sale of military helicopters, cryptographic software and small arms ammunition to Russia is "compliant" with UK licensing criteria — despite the fact that separate export licenses to Russia for sniper rifles and body armor were revoked last summer.
Participants were asked, for instance, about irregular menses as a surrogate for PCOS, as PCOS remains undiagnosed in many patients or they are unfamiliar with the medical term.
They are asking, for instance, whether care can be provided at a retail clinic rather than at a hospital, and requesting lower-cost generic drugs.
In letters to Huawei and ZTE Corp., the lawmakers are asking, for instance, about the role of the "Party committee" and the "work the two companies have done in Iran and their funding arrangements with the Chinese government".
