Example sentences of "behalf of [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The Economy and Finance Minister , César Vásquez Bazán , revealed on March 2 , 1990 , that the US Citibank , acting on behalf of 230 of Peru 's creditor banks , had begun legal action to recover US$3,400 million owed by Peru . |
2 | On April 19 the human rights organization Amnesty International called on the Amir to intervene personally on behalf of hundreds of people detained on suspicion of collaborating with the Iraqis who , it claimed , were still being held in " deplorable conditions " . |
3 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
4 | The postcard designs , on the theme of children 's rights , will be produced as a series of postcard-sized prints , on which the children will write their own appeals to governments on behalf of one of eight young people 's cases featured in Amnesty 's PoC Week ( from 18 October ) . |
5 | In February 1942 , Captain Oswald Benton , a welfare officer , Royal Artillery , wrote to the county treasurer on behalf of one of his soldiers whose wife had had an operation at St. Peter 's , and who had received a bill for £1.4s.0d. ( which included £1.1s.0d. for the anaesthetic fee ) : |
6 | Louis VI intervened on behalf of one of them , William Clito , son of Robert Curthose , and therefore a claimant also to the duchy of Normandy ; for some months it looked as though Clito would establish his right . |
7 | This is a major re-working of packaging on behalf of one of Germany 's largest wine exporters . |
8 | They may be used to prevent a reference to an expert after that date , in which case an existing determination , made by or on behalf of one of the parties but not accepted by the other , may have to stand . |
9 | It could n't have been more blatant ; an indignant show of protest on behalf of thousands of miners and much of the nation . |
10 | I present a petition on behalf of 332 of my constituents who are residents of Stockton-on-Tees and who protest : |