Example sentences of "[prep] behalf of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forced back on a policy of self help , the RCM soon discovered that the public responded best when appeals were made of behalf of specific projects — £40 to support one boy in a course of agricultural training , say , or £60 for a year 's schooling . |
| 2 | What is truly disturbing , is that by taking it upon themselves to speak of behalf of the nation , artists have collaborated with the regime . |
| 3 | What appears to be distortion in the allocation of power between different parts of the state apparatus ( e.g. bureaucracy and legislature is in reality a reflection of the state 's functioning of behalf of a dominant class . |
| 4 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 5 | In the eighteenth century the scales of justice could be tilted in favour of a relative or friend , or it was feared that this was the case , unless strong interest was made in behalf of a litigant in order to ensure equity . |
| 6 | But you must not plead in behalf of your will and refuse to give due weight to mine . |
| 7 | Likewise ACET has also involved other agencies on behalf of the client . |
| 8 | on behalf of a client |
| 9 | ‘ On behalf of the family of my late brother , Robert , I wish to thank you for the compassion and care shown to him by your organization during his long and difficult illness . |
| 10 | on behalf of a client |
| 11 | In the April/May letter writing campaign , there was an error in the appeal on behalf of Taiwanese prisoner Huang Hua . |
| 12 | The Flesh It Out Theatre Company from East London are doing a show at the Edinburgh Festival on behalf of Amnesty . |
| 13 | The Group will work on behalf of service and ex-service personnel whose human rights are being abused and will be involved in the development of human rights awareness in armed services training . |
| 14 | Members working on behalf of a prisoner learn a lot about that country — its culture and political allegiance for example — knowledge that is no longer useful when the case is closed . |
| 15 | In 1985 work on behalf of refugees took its place in the statute of Amnesty . |
| 16 | Our task today is to increase the international pressure on behalf of the thousands of prisoners of conscience all over the world , to make tomorrow the day their freedom is restored . |
| 17 | 315 OF THESE ARE IN THE UK , WORKING ON BEHALF OF 318 INDIVIDUALS AND RAISING MORE THAN £260,000 A YEAR TO FURTHER AMNESTY 'S WORK . |
| 18 | Many readers must have sighed with regret that so few of Gainsborough 's letters have survived , since the charm of his style is so fresh ; it is easy to sympathise with him writing about his professional commitment to portraiture , on behalf of two fine ladies , his daughters : |
| 19 | The man upstairs , the first husband whom Maria is to leave , is not ‘ self-aware ’ — unlike Zuckerman , who declares , on behalf of the self-aware , that he has no self and that the self is a joke . |
| 20 | In concrete terms , de Valera was acting on behalf of the established economic interests of rural Ireland , in particular the small landowners and small businessmen . |
| 21 | Also , there can be no doubt that the South would intervene in the North on behalf of the catholic — nationalist minority if Britain withdrew and civil war broke out . |
| 22 | The church was acting on behalf of all , and had a prime obligation to push for a public morality which matched its perception of the natural law lest the very fabric of society be torn asunder and its members cast on the road of moral decline . |
| 23 | The high court decision , announced at the end of December in that year , found on behalf of SPUC and declared such counselling by the Dublin Well Woman Centre and the Open Line counselling service to be illegal and ordered them to cease their public information service on the issue by 12 January 1987 . |
| 24 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
| 25 | Motability has also negotiated good discounts on new cars on behalf of purchasers . |
| 26 | These in turn become massively overdetermined , regenerative and self-justifying , creating an institutional mind which , although allegedly acting on behalf of society and the majority population , comes to regard that same group as outsiders and potential antagonists who are never to be accorded easy access to the processes of the organization . |
| 27 | In such cases , the official acting on behalf of the contestant may approach the arbitrator directly . |
| 28 | Indeed , on September 12 , 1924 , he journeyed to Italy to meet the Pope on behalf of his people ; which some commentators viewed as ‘ historic ’ . |
| 29 | One of Lyon 's responsibilities was to ensure that the cantor , who led the singing on behalf of the congregation , was fit for the job . |
| 30 | Then you are saddened on behalf of the citizens , not just of the World , but of the Galaxy . |