Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] behalf of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , if a firm 's name keeps on appearing on behalf of plaintiffs against major local factories , you can be fairly sure that they are retained on behalf of a union . |
| 2 | This requires that each major service area within hospitals has a designated chief who can negotiate on behalf of colleagues with the hospital manager . |
| 3 | Prior to the reform , dealing in government securities had taken place on the floor of the London Stock Exchange between brokers ( acting on behalf of clients in an agency capacity ) and jobbers ( acting on their own behalf as principals ) . |
| 4 | I am writing on behalf of organisations in Bath and Wiltshire which provide residential services to people with learning difficulties . |
| 5 | Best Western also opened a Trust account for packages operated on behalf of members of the independent hotels ' consortium . |
| 6 | Sir Hilary " Hal " Miller , a senior Conservative MP , told the House that he had acted on behalf of WS during the past few years , and had warned the DTI , the Defence Ministry and an unidentified " third agency " on a number of occasions about suspicious Iraqi orders . |
| 7 | Until 1986 Stock Exchange participants were either brokers , who acted on behalf of clients in buying and selling securities , or jobbers , who held stocks and shares and dealt with brokers as the market required , and acted rather like wholesalers of securities . |
| 8 | Dan Jones , Head of Campaigns , replied on behalf of guests with poems of liberty which had been smuggled from the jails and prison camps of the world . |
| 9 | But unsatisfactory in what respect : as representatives of a body established to negotiate on behalf of employees with management acting on behalf of owners ; or as representatives of the union but charged , along with representatives of the owners , with the corporate responsibility for the performance of the enterprise ? |
| 10 | Back in the mid-1970s , Philip Rowntree gave me the funds to establish the Low Pay Unit ( LPU ) to campaign on behalf of workers in Wage Council industries . |
| 11 | To inform teachers and academics of the work of Amnesty International and in particular to encourage them to campaign on behalf of colleagues around the world who are victims of human rights abuses . |
| 12 | The liquidators had interviewed many people to find out whether or not civil claims could be brought on behalf of investors against two of the Barlow Clowes companies , in particular Barlow Clowes International Ltd based in Gibraltar and Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers Ltd . |
| 13 | I believe we should support responsible organisations campaigning on behalf of animals for two reasons : |
| 14 | The concern is expressed on behalf of defendants in custody because they may ultimately be acquitted or given non-custodial sentences , and on behalf of defendants on bail because of the uncertainty and unpleasantness of a pending criminal trial . |
| 15 | He appeared to speak on behalf of others in his platoon , young men who had just left boyhood behind , as they crouched hunched over cleaning rags and oil , stripping down their SA-80 rifles and machine guns in the cramped confines of their bunk room . |