The phrase "a request to provide" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are formally asking someone to supply information or materials.
Example: "I am sending you a request to provide the necessary documents for the project."
Alternatives: "a plea for" or "a demand for".
Mr. Dreifach estimated the numbers of products to be in the millions, but said Network Associates had not complied with a request to provide the precise number sold.
It is hard to see how a request to provide a medical prescription can be construed as discriminating on the grounds of religion.
There is also a request to provide 100 corrections officers, in hopes of setting up a new prison after the main penitentiary collapsed, freeing about 4,000 convicts.
Consider, for instance, the practice (once common in hospitals) of deliberately proceeding slowly to a ward in response to a request to provide assistance for a patient who has been assigned a 'not for resuscitation' code.
If necessary information was not available from the published article and it was published within the previous 10 years, authors were contacted via email with a request to provide missing data.
Hisense UK refused to comment, and then declined a request to provide contact details for its global team.
Riyadh also agreed to a US request to provide a base to train moderate Syrian rebel forces.
The chairwoman of the commission, Dr. Macfarlane, agreed during her confirmation hearing to a blanket request to provide documents.
India is also considering an American request to provide troops for Iraq, but such action by Pakistan, a Muslim country where the American and British operation in Iraq is so unpopular, would be particularly significant.
First, on why the UK provided advice to the Indian government, the cabinet secretary has established that in early February 1984, the-then government received an urgent request to provide operational advice on Indian contingency plans for action to regain control of the temple complex.
WikiLeaks supporters initially mobbed courthouses over the course of six acrimonious hearings, chanting, "We love you, Julian," when Mr. Assange was denied bail as a flight risk and briefly jailed in December after defying a judge's request to provide an address.
