Example sentences of "a request for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keown then left at the end of his contract after being unable to agree terms with Graham over a new deal — and alleging that the sticking point had been a request for £50 a week more than he was offered . |
| 2 | They will then notify their clients by sending them contract notes — a ‘ bought ’ note in the case of a purchase and a ‘ sold ’ note in the case of a sale — accompanied , in the case of a purchase , by a request for payment prior to the next settlement date ( unless they are already holding their client 's funds ) or , in the case of a sale , by a transfer form for signature and return and a request for the share certificate ( unless they already hold it ) . |
| 3 | Mr Kaufman insisted that he opposed statutory regulation , and that the report amounted to a request for self-regulation . |
| 4 | I understand that you will be faxing to me today a request for banker 's details and credit references . |
| 5 | We would hold a meeting of women from a certain neighbourhood to discuss their needs and then we would help with the necessary work of filing a request for services at the Town Hall . |
| 6 | Yes ! ’ and slap in a request for marriage leave without more ado . |
| 7 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 8 | ‘ On considering a request for leave filed under paragraph ( 1 ) , the court shall — ( a ) grant the request , whereupon the proper officer shall inform the person making the request of the decision , or ( b ) direct that a date be fixed for the hearing of the request , whereupon the proper officer shall fix such a date and give such notice as the court directs to the person making the request and to such other persons as the court requires to be notified , of the date so fixed . |
| 9 | If a request for transfer is refused the applicant can ask the appropriate county court care centre to review the decision and the application may be dealt with by a nominated care district judge . |
| 10 | When deciding whether to grant a request for transfer , the court must have regard to the general principle in s1(2) that delay is likely to be prejudicial to the child 's welfare and should apply the criteria for transfer in APO , art 7 ( see ( b ) above ) . |
| 11 | At last he managed to whisper a request for water , but the magistrate refused angrily . |
| 12 | On the other hand , a question in the form of a quotation with a request for discussion normally requires an explanation of everything in the quotation . |
| 13 | The budget included a request for $15,000 million for foreign aid , an increase of $1,000 million compared with 1990 . |
| 14 | Before nominations closed Stockton South returning officer Frank Theobalds received a request for papers from both the official MRLP and the MRLP ( plumbers division . ) |
| 15 | I am not familiar with this procedure which in relation to a request for discovery ( provided the request is generally in order ) or the administering of interrogatories does not conform with the practice described in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 , vol. 1 , paras . |
| 16 | Henry could not quite work out why , since her pleasantness was not always followed by a request for money or some other favour ; perhaps she was remembering something he had quite forgotten , an incident during their courtship perhaps ( they must have had a courtship ) or a Henry , now lost to Henry himself , who could have inspired feelings such as pleasure . |
| 17 | 258 it had been held that a request for money in such circumstances did constitute an offence under the Larceny Act 1916 , s.29(1) ( i ) . |
| 18 | It has been found that it was rare that an old person initiated a request for admission to a local authority home ( Stapleton , 1979 ; Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 19 | Unix International has issued a request for proposal ( RFP ) for technology that will let users link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications . |
| 20 | As a result of a Request For Proposal process , IBM was asked to provide a more powerful and more up to date processor to replace one of the two existing IBM 3090–600J machines . |
| 21 | It appeared to the Commission that , aside from certain cases involving fantasy or malice , a request for service forwarded abroad met a precise need , and it could be presumed that such a request was in compliance with the procedural law of the forum , since this step would otherwise make no sense . |
| 22 | If a Central Authority considers that a request for service does not fall within the Convention it may reject it . |
| 23 | Here again it is unrealistic to expect the law of any state to list modes of service which are not allowed ; the policy of the authors of the draft that only a positive prohibition should ‘ stand in the way of granting a request for service ’ gives inadequate weight to the interests of the state of destination . |
| 24 | Article 2(6) lists grounds for refusal to comply with a request for service . |
| 25 | Although staff may have been appointed to a post With fixed hours and work schedules , a change in circumstances may give rise to a request for change . |
| 26 | A unique solution to a request for change in position is thus not achievable without imposing other problem constraints . |
| 27 | 3/The roughs were sent with tracing paper overlays annotated with queries and a request for answers to be written alongside . |
| 28 | Last year the Ministry of Prisons , in Kampala , approached Food for the Hungry ( an international Christian relief organisation ) with a request for help . |
| 29 | We also have to interpret A's remark not only as a description of a particular state of affairs , but as a request for help , for instance . |
| 30 | Taking all this into account , it is possible to explain how I interpreted this utterance to function as a request for help in freeing the cat — as having a pragmatic meaning roughly paraphrasable as |