Example sentences of "request for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | The characteristics of the clients are described , as are the circumstances leading to their requests for help . |
| 2 | David Landale , Duchy secretary , said there were numerous requests for help , but the Birmingham project ‘ caught the Prince 's imagination ’ . |
| 3 | The organisation is also considering how it should respond to increasing requests for help with victims of domestic violence . |
| 4 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 5 | We posted requests for help to a cross-party selection of 15 MPs . |
| 6 | All social services departments are being hit by inflation and are short of cash and staff with which to meet the many urgent requests for help from all sections of the community . |
| 7 | An unduly large caseload of pupils can make this difficult , with the possibility of resentment building up if requests for help are not promptly met . |
| 8 | Requests for help tend to centre upon children within the family but when financial or emotional disaster strikes the advice sought centres upon much more fundamental questions than progress in literacy or computation . |
| 9 | If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands . |
| 10 | In that time the Great Criminal sent us not even one reply to our requests for help . |
| 11 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 12 | They react to requests for help with specific topics and resources but they are proactive in terms of the health promoting school and in teacher education . |
| 13 | Together they handle incoming requests for help from the whole company , many for translations of technical material , contracts , safety reports , business correspondence , patent specifications and standards . |
| 14 | Last year the Ministry of Prisons , in Kampala , approached Food for the Hungry ( an international Christian relief organisation ) with a request for help . |
| 15 | In this case the request for help falls somewhere between the extremes of the Glasgow dustmen 's strike and straight humanitarian operations such as rescuing people from snowdrifts . |
| 16 | He was equally sinister two years later when the Foreign Secretary Carrington visited him with a strange request for help in promoting the neutralisation of Afghanistan . |
| 17 | I am pleased to be able to let you know that our branch has sent £250 to HQ in response to its request for help in its dire financial situation . |
| 18 | Often their request for help was for further insemination and not to treat the actual sexual problem . |
| 19 | It is often the case that parents experiencing management difficulties present their request for help along with a welter of problems , anxieties , complaints and sometimes mis-information that they think the listener wants to hear . |
| 20 | He would clearly hate to be patronized ; he would smell patronage in any apology , in any request for help made out of desire to soothe sore feelings . |
| 21 | In 1894 Chinese troops were sent to Korea in response to the Korean king 's request for help against domestic rebellion led by the powerful Tonghak religious sect . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Understanding this connection between the form and the function of language will help us to explain how stretches of language , like the request for help with the cat , can be coherent without being cohesive ; it will also help us as language teachers . |
| 24 | Understanding this connection between the form and the function of language will help us to explain how stretches of language , like the request for help with the cat , can be coherent without being cohesive ; it will also help us as language teachers . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | I do n't know whether you 've found time to consider my request for help with the publication of this response ? |
| 27 | Evidence of the difficulties experienced in trying to combine the demands of active life with those of inner quietness can be found in the request for help answered by Walter Hilton in his Mixed Life and by the courageous attempt of Margery Kempe to live out her faith . |
| 28 | If you ask such a child " How should we respond to the aliens ' request for help ? " s/he 's not likely to respond very articulately . |
| 29 | The donation is in response to Cambodia 's request for help in restoring its shattered agriculture and reflects the Cambodian government 's desire to make the country self-sufficient in food as quickly as possible , but experts fear any short-term benefits will be outweighed by long-term damage . |
| 30 | A housing authority is obliged to comply with a request for help in these circumstances if it is compatible with its own statutory duties and obligations and does not unduly prejudice the discharge of its own functions ( s27(2) ) . |