Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the request [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gear was specially designed at the request of Prince 's recording company , Paisley Park . |
| 2 | The Union reorganised at the request of , and for the benefit of , its employees . |
| 3 | The more serious charge of " co-authorship of genocide " had been substituted at the request of the prosecution on Feb. 1 on the strength of evidence which had emerged during the trial , notably an eyewitness account of Dinca personally calling for troops to be ordered to shoot demonstrators in Bucharest on Dec. 22 . |
| 4 | Overshadowed by the Gulf crisis , the meeting noted that the multinational forces confronting Iraq " have come at the request of the GCC states and will leave the region when the GCC states request " . |
| 5 | The visit originated at the request of Sir George Courthope , Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company , who expressed to the Headmaster his wish that the boys should have the opportunity to see this fine example of the work of the Company . |
| 6 | Hovhannesyan , a US national , resigned at the request of President Levon Ter-Petrosyan over " apparent policy disagreement " . |
| 7 | The man , who is not being named at the request of his family , was detained with a German man at Umm Qasr on May 28 and sentenced to eight years in jail in Baghdad on June 6 , a spokeswoman said . |
| 8 | The man , who has not been named at the request of his family , was found collapsed in a cell at Darlington police station on March 8 and was certified dead at the scene . |
| 9 | One reason for the nonstandard approach in the USA is that much of the investigatory work undertaken by the GAO is done at the request of the Congress . |
| 10 | An act done at the request of the offeror in response to his promise is consideration ; and consideration in its essence is nothing else but response to such a request . |
| 11 | As for the second of those preconditions , whether the act done at the request of the promisor raises an implication of promised remuneration or other return is simply one of the construction of the words of the contract in the circumstances of its making . ’ |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | As reported , the information was sought at the request of the Department of Employment . |
| 14 | Collaboration is emphasised in a report prepared at the request of Europe 's heads of government , who met at the Versailles economic summit last year . |
| 15 | The film was made at the request of a Belgian organization and will be dubbed from English into French and Flemish . |
| 16 | The original five-year ban , which expired in March this year , was made at the request of the Salvadorean government and is intended to protect the significant archaeological sites in the Cara Sucia region where stone and ceramic artifacts have been uncovered . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Restraint orders made at the request of the prosecutor under section 77 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 are a special case and in In re O. does not therefore assist the plaintiffs . |
| 18 | Certain unspecified revisions were made at the request of the Council of Constitutional Guardians . |
| 19 | The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 . |
| 20 | On Nov. 13 the government postponed the constitutional referendum ( due on Nov. 28 ) to Dec. 26 ; the move was made at the request of all political parties following complaints that electoral lists were incomplete . |
| 21 | The referendum had been scheduled for November but had been postponed at the request of the political parties following the transitional government 's evident difficulties in drawing up a voters ' register . |
| 22 | HARTLEPOOL 'S Midland Senior League game with Wrexham was postponed at the request of the FA Cup giant-killers . |
| 23 | At a meeting of the Company on 5th November 1491 , called at the request of Thomas Rich in the name of Julian Shaa and the other executors , the Goldsmiths asked if they might have £40 clear : this would allow them to fulfil all their obligations , to have some money spare for repairs and suchlike , and also to appropriate the balance to their own use . |
| 24 | Since March 1985 a full written decision has only been provided at the request of either party . |
| 25 | There is also provision for ABWOR to be provided at the request of a magistrates ' court or a county court by a solicitor within the precincts of the court for purposes other than the provision of ABWOR , where the court considers that the case should proceed the same day and that the client would not otherwise receive representation . |
| 26 | However , the New York Times of July 12 , reporting on hitherto secret State Department cables provided at the request of the Senate foreign relations committee , found that they included no such clear warning on Glaspie 's part . |
| 27 | It was restored at the request of some of his friends in 1836 . |
| 28 | The UN Security Council , convened at the request of France on Sept. 25 , adopted Resolution 713 sponsored by Belgium , France and the UK calling for a complete arms embargo on Yugoslavia and the immediate cessation of hostilities and requesting the Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , to assist with mediation . |
| 29 | ‘ Veterinary College May 9th 1792 — At a meeting ( held at the Crown & Anchor Tavern in the Strand ) of a committee of Physicians and Surgeons appointed at the request of the Veterinary College , for the purpose of investigating the medical and chirurgical abilities of Mr C.B. Vial the professor of the above Institution , Present : John Hunter , Esq. , Sir George Baker , Bart. , Doctor Crawford , Doctor Packwood , Everard Home , Esq. , Mr Cline , Mr Vaux , Mr Peake and Mr Thos . |
| 30 | Such actions could only be activated at the request of the immediate lord 's vassal and the notion of French royal sovereignty remained largely theoretical and judicial throughout this period . |