Example sentences of "[prep] behalf of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruler of Egypt Mohammed Ali intervened in the revolt on behalf of Turkey with the promise of territory in the area . |
| 2 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 3 | Belfast Zoo was honoured to have a visit in August from Dr Jane Goodall , world-renowned zoologist and tireless campaigner on behalf of chimpanzees in the wild and in captivity . |
| 4 | I apologise on behalf of Council to the members of the press who are here , and to the Council officers who have to endure this and I am only grateful that there are not members of the public here to witness this total farce . |
| 5 | I strenuously reject the suggestion of the hon. Member for Gateshead , East ( Ms. Quin ) that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is not the best person to negotiate on behalf of Britain at the forthcoming summit . |
| 6 | The Treaty of Tlatelolco was signed on 20 December , 1967 , and ratified on behalf of Britain by the Wilson government on 11 December , 1969 . |
| 7 | He has been on nearly two dozen foreign trips on behalf of LA in the past few years and some of his questionable financial dealings have been investigated . |
| 8 | Best Western also opened a Trust account for packages operated on behalf of members of the independent hotels ' consortium . |
| 9 | Its figures are complicated by the fact that every system sale made by SunExpress on behalf of SMCC in the US was counted by both it , and SMCC . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A long-time vegetarian , lang did a televised announcement on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals , and cattle country was up in arms . |
| 12 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 13 | A statement issued on behalf of Rushdie by the Rushdie Defence Committee on July 22 expressed opposition to the ban . |
| 14 | There are some reliefs where costs can not be estimated for example on capital gains and inheritance tax lifetime transfer but both direct taxes and value added tax relief drew in some nine hundred and thirty million pounds on behalf of charities in the nineteen ninety two ninety three financial year . |
| 15 | This requires that each major service area within hospitals has a designated chief who can negotiate on behalf of colleagues with the hospital manager . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The plaintiffs say that they accepted this loan on behalf of C.M.C. on the advice of the third defendant . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) The third defendant fraudulently altered in a number of material respects an application which had been signed on behalf of C.M.C. by the first plaintiff for a loan on the security of the bakery. ( 2 ) The third defendant concealed from the plaintiffs the true impact of arrangements made between C.M.C. and two companies which I will describe simply as Crescent and Highdene in which , unknown to the plaintiffs , the third defendant was personally interested . |
| 19 | We have been retained by the board of Acquiring Client plc ( ‘ Client ’ ) , a client of KPMG [ Office ] , to act as lead financial adviser and to make an offer on behalf of Client to the holders of shares in Target plc ( ‘ Target ’ ) . |