Example sentences of "request for information " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to those who responded to our request for information last month — we would still be very interested to receive any information about your own Coldwatch activities and your use of the Coldwatch pack and leaflet . |
| 2 | Earlier his office issued a request for information to United Airlines , whose $6.8bn staff buyout is to be part-financed by $750m from British Airways . |
| 3 | In announcing the formal closing of a procedure against the Italian authorities alleging a breach of EC rules on state subsidies , the Commission recalled that the action was prompted by the Rome government 's failure to reply to an original request for information in July 1990 . |
| 4 | When asked on one occasion what he considered Truth to be , it would seem that Gandhi interpreted the question as a request for information as to how he came to know Truth . |
| 5 | One manager , who remains nameless , replied to the psychologists ' request for information thus : ‘ Please feel free to send your questionnaires to me and I will distribute them to the two or three players who can read and write and have an attention span of longer than two minutes . ’ |
| 6 | He mentioned the request for information from the Criminal Investigation Division of the police in Western Australia , of a description received from Perth of a murder suspect , which might be relevant and might not , could n't say . |
| 7 | US airline operator , Northwest Airlines Inc , is moving to open systems and has issued a request for information on products that it can use to build an integrated distributed computing system . |
| 8 | Warner refused to comply with the DTI 's request for information under s.178(1) . |
| 9 | If the queries coming into the public relations or press office are short questions they can usually be answered on the spot , but quite often they will be in the form of a general request for information on a specific topic and it could be that your organisation has in its files a good deal of material which could be sent out . |
| 10 | It has even been known for a company to respond to a request for information six weeks after the initial query and then to complain that their product had been left out ! |
| 11 | It is not a difficult fragment to work with , it has a definable beginning and end , and , for most of the fragment , there is one participant talking , in response to another 's request for information . |
| 12 | This request for information provides a direction for the conversational fragment , so that we are considering speech with some purpose and not just social chat used to pass the time . |
| 13 | One might also say that the content of the request for information could provide some basis for the content of the response , especially when the request is for the meaning of an expression to be given . |
| 14 | But if such a retort is both meaningful and non-trivial , then surely so is the statement ( that might be made , for example , in reply to a request for information from a third person ) that " the chair " being talked about — the " posited chair " — is not fictional , i.e. that it actually exists , even though those who take this statement on trust might find out otherwise to their cost . |
| 15 | The trustee need not comply with any request for information where it appears to him that the request is frivolous or unreasonable or the cost of complying would be excessive or there are not sufficient assets to meet the cost of complying ( r 6.152(2) ) . |
| 16 | We believe that , where a request for information has been inadequately answered , it is insufficient to expect the applicant to ‘ seek a remedy through the usual democratic channels or through a judicial review ’ . |
| 17 | The District Council has now forwarded a request for information from the various Regional Council services to assist in the preparation of the local plan , a copy of which is enclosed . |
| 18 | Just to pick up a point on er Miss 's latest request for information . |
| 19 | There is the possibility that at this point , Joan could interpret this as a genuine request for information addressed to her , and respond , for example , " on Tuesday " or " I do n't know " , creating an insertion sequence like that of ( 8 ) or ( 9 ) . |
| 20 | It 's a request for information . |
| 21 | ‘ Over the last six months the most common request for information has been about Ecstasy , ’ he says . |
| 22 | This is , in fact , a common cause of misunderstanding in English conversation , when a question such as A 's above might be a request for information or an offer to provide some . |
| 23 | In the following example , the question-tag is ‘ are n't they ’ ; when it has a falling tone , as in ( a ) , the implication is said to be that the speaker is comparatively certain that the information is correct , and simply expects the listener to provide confirmation , while the rising tone in ( b ) is said to indicate a lesser degree of certainty , so that the question-tag functions more like a request for information . |
| 24 | It would have been a more complete list had Wirral and St Helens authorities not instructed their schools to ignore our request for information although some Wirral schools did reply . |