Example sentences of "act on [noun sg] of the " in BNC.

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31 We have had complaints from the Thames Valley area about a caller offering financial and mortgage advice , who purports to be acting on behalf of the ICM .
32 Another problem facing NAB is that it does not wish to be seen solely as a negative force , acting on behalf of the DES in closing courses , but more constructively to encourage new , worthwhile initiatives .
33 intermediaries acting on behalf of the companies or shareholders , eg merchant banks .
34 In his radio broadcast , Okar claimed to be acting on behalf of the " oppressed and enslaved people of the Middle Belt and the south " against the " dictatorial , corrupt , drug-baronish , inhumane , sadistic , deceitful , homosexually-centred , polygamistic and unpatriotic " Babangida government .
35 Lawyers acting on behalf of the defendants had claimed that neither evidence nor witnesses had been presented to support the prosecution .
36 His visit coincided with a visit to Beirut by the former Italian Prime Minister , Bettino Craxi , acting on behalf of the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar .
37 On Feb. 12 the human rights organization Amnesty International formally requested the Israeli government to launch an investigation into the death on Feb. 5 of a Palestinian prisoner , Mustapha Akawi , who had been arrested on Jan. 22 on suspicion of acting on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine .
38 The pope 's tribunal was the highest tribunal for all , but why should this tribunal not be extended in practice by the delegation of cases that came to it from all over Europe to judges , acting on behalf of the pope , in the countries from which the appeals came ?
39 UnivEd is also acting on behalf of the University in the creation of the Edinburgh Technopole .
40 27 ( 1 ) This section applies if , at any time after 9th June l988 , a landlord ( in this section referred to as " the landlord in default " ) or any person acting on behalf of the landlord in default unlawfully deprives the residential occupier of any premises of his occupation of the whole or part of the premises .
41 ( 2 ) This section also applies if , at any time after 9th June 1988 , a landlord ( in this section referred to as " the landlord in default " ) or any person acting on behalf of the landlord in default — ( a ) attempts unlawfully to deprive the residential occupier of any premises of his occupation of the whole or part of the premises , or ( b ) knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier of any premises — ( i ) to give up his occupation of the premises or any part thereof , or ( ii ) to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the premises or any part thereof , does acts likely to interfere with the peace or comfort of the residential occupier or members of his household , or persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises as a residence , and , as a result , the residential occupier gives up his occupation of the premises as a residence .
42 Some clauses therefore provide that an appointment may be made by a duly authorised deputy , or a person acting on behalf of the President .
43 I 've been asked by the building custodian , acting on behalf of the fire service , to inform you that , should the fire alarm sound , you are required to leave the building in an orderly fashion by the nearest exist .
44 I have been asked by the building custodian acting on behalf of the fire service to inform you that , should the fire alarm sound , you are required to leave the building in an orderly fashion by the nearest exit .
45 It would be much simpler if he were simply talking about the relationship between the legislative and the executive cos here he could say right , if the executive gets out of hand and starts acting arbitrarily and tyrannically , then the legislative acting on behalf of the people as a whole can take action as indeed parliament did during the civil wars .
46 Introduction : acting on recognition of the interactive nature of emotional , behavioural and learning difficulties
47 4.1.1 The Lead Organization has represented and acted on behalf of the Parties in making an application to IEATP for a Government Grant and shall represent and act on behalf of the parties in the acceptance of such Grant on terms acceptable to all of the Parties hereto including the completion of the project to the satisfaction of IEATP .
48 Delegates trying to act on behalf of the whole , without upsetting its parts , experience similar difficulties .
49 There is a growing tendency for councils to give committees complete power to act on behalf of the council .
50 As had been proposed to the court , both by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and by the guardian ad litem appointed by the court to act on behalf of the children , the court made a full care order .
51 ‘ the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit … that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge .
52 ‘ Again , the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit since this judgment was delivered , that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge .
53 If it is not then Crossman Block do not have the authority to act on behalf of the Republic : see the similar question of the authority of a solicitor in Carl Zeiss Stiftung v. Rayner & Keeler Ltd .
54 In the imperial affair the first person to act on behalf of the pope was Monaco de Villa , a Milanese , who had been appointed by Otto as plenipotentiary to deal with the pope .
55 A proposal canvassed in the CDP by David Bethel , Director of Leicester Polytechnic and a member of the CNAA 's working party , was for an individual ‘ Institutional Committee ’ for each institution designated as having achieved ‘ mature status ’ , to act on behalf of the CNAA , to consult with the institution and to replace institutional visits — another CDP proposal which did not gain CNAA support .
56 The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client .
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