Example sentences of "at [art] request of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter Trusts will be expected to continue to provide such services subject to review at the request of either party to the contract and , in the event of disagreement , the approval of the Secretary of State . ’ |
| 2 | I instruct you to pay direct debits from my account at the request of Campaign for Real Ale Limited . |
| 3 | Mr Poole said there was evidence that some ambulance workers in the shires had been breaching the ban at the request of managers . |
| 4 | It acted at the request of Axa Midi , which has reaffirmed its agreement to buy BAT 's subsidiary , Farmers , should Hoylake win . |
| 5 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 6 | His sketching speed was amply illustrated at our meeting : at the request of The Independent photographer for a cartoon to be positioned against a picture of him , within seconds a huge Asterix bounced off a sheet of paper . |
| 7 | The film was made at the request of a Belgian organization and will be dubbed from English into French and Flemish . |
| 8 | The presence of the Seoul 100 metres silver medallist might have attracted a few more through the turnstiles had the Scottish AAA not agreed to keep his entry a secret at the request of the athlete himself , a fact which inevitably leaked out leaving the promoters somewhat embarrassed . |
| 9 | Questions about shareholdings were put in 1987 for the first time , at the request of the Treasury , anxious to confirm and expand the conclusions of previous surveys by market research groups . |
| 10 | Proposed mergers involving companies with a turnover of less than £1.4billion may be examined by the Commission at the request of an affected member state . |
| 11 | After January 15th Resolution 678 of the United Nations Security Council allows any country , at the request of Kuwait , to remove the Iraqis forcibly . |
| 12 | At the request of a UN under-secretary-general , Martti Ahtisaari , who had just visited Iraq , the sanctions committee decided last week to let Iraq buy food for hungry people and generators to work sewage plants . |
| 13 | We expend endless energy and an awful lot of time each day in pre-empting criticism ; in censoring our speech and our behaviour , checking our appearance , taking up less room , making ourselves invisible , smiling at the request of total strangers , feigning pleasure when we feel none — being good girls rather than real women . |
| 14 | In February 1548 the English captain , Thomas Wharton , sent a bible to Dumfries , at the request of the citizens — while leading an English force in a border raid . |
| 15 | Christian missionaries were sent at the request of Duke Géza , and his son , Prince Vajk , was christened as Stephen . |
| 16 | But a team from the Norfolk Archaeological Unit , led by Mr Brian Ayers , has been excavating the bridge at the request of Norwich City Council in order to determine its structural soundness and its history . |
| 17 | At the request of Tory toughs , he has given 10 per cent extra scorn and 30 per cent extra snarl . |
| 18 | MICROBETTER and Airflow Communications have been compulsorily wound up by court order under the Insolvency Act at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 19 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 20 | This second volume contains , besides several ingenious smaller pieces , written on particular occasions , The Unhappy Father , a tragedy , with three acts of a second play , written at the request of a friend , in about a fortnight , and some letters of this extraordinary young woman , which have a solidity in them far beyond what could be expected from one of her years , and so destitute of the advantages of education … |
| 21 | Leapor 's plays have an obviously public character , yet it is interesting to observe that the second play was written ‘ At the Request of a Friend ’ [ ML , 2 , 225 ] ; presumably , that friend was Freemantle . |
| 22 | Mozart , sometimes for dramatic reasons , sometimes at the request of the designer , Lorenzo Quaglio , or one of the singers , frequently asked for alterations to be made in the text which were often strongly resisted by the librettist . |
| 23 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 24 | The new catchment boards ' first decade of river clearance was followed by the outbreak of war , during which Parliament empowered the boards to carry out even more extensive work at the request of county war agricultural executive committees . |
| 25 | As reported , the information was sought at the request of the Department of Employment . |
| 26 | The other was a ballet at the request of Alan Carter who ( having left Sadler 's Wells ) formed and directed the St James 's Ballet , a company of only thirteen dancers sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain to tour small towns with no proper theatre . |
| 27 | A set of Easter tables drawn up by Cyril of Alexandria ( 376–444 ) was accompanied by a consecutive set of years beginning with the Emperor Diocletian and his persecution in AD 284 , but when in AD 525 a Scythian monk living in Rome , Dionysius Exiguus , prepared a continuation of Cyril 's tables , at the request of Pope John I , he felt that it was inappropriate to reckon from the reign of this enemy of Christianity , and he chose instead to date the years from Christ 's Incarnation . |
| 28 | Many doctors specializing in the care of the dying consider that the state of modern medicine makes even the need to consider the notion of euthanasia , whether at the request of the patient or otherwise , as an option quite unnecessary , quite apart from its moral repugnance . |
| 29 | The Union reorganised at the request of , and for the benefit of , its employees . |
| 30 | At first the track was more widely spaced with ornamental centre poles , but in 1927 — at the request of Fleetwood — side poles and span wires were substituted and the track re-positioned centrally . |