Example sentences of "acting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has this been something special in acting for you ? |
| 2 | The Thirties Society negotiated a compromise scheme with the architects acting for Ind Coope which the owners found unnacceptable , threatening closure of the pub . |
| 3 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 4 | Barrister David Ashton , acting for the liquidators of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , told the court that good news was on the way for the mostly small depositors , many of whom lost their life savings when the Douglas-based bank collapsed seven years ago . |
| 5 | Peter Cole , a solicitor acting for Edwards , said after yesterday 's hearing : ‘ I think the ball is essentially in Knighton 's court . ’ |
| 6 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 7 | Hoare is acting for British Aerospace , which yesterday admitted it had a 1.7 per cent stake . |
| 8 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
| 9 | Solicitors acting for the National Union of Journalists are considering whether to bring a ‘ representative ’ or class action case against the newspaper , whose staff has been among the worst hit by the industrial injury . |
| 10 | But otherwise , without this exact knowledge , that future me is just someone vague , no more worth acting for … than the poor Hong Kong Chinese today . |
| 11 | Although President Bush has been opposed to any such deal , Miami lawyers acting for Gen Noriega and leading US senators have been exploring the possibility of an agreement that could lead to a ceasefire and freedom for the American hostages . |
| 12 | A private citizen , secretly acting for the clergy , had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes . |
| 13 | Kylie discovered the enormous difference between acting for television and acting for films . |
| 14 | Kylie discovered the enormous difference between acting for television and acting for films . |
| 15 | But now there is the pressing problem of what to do with Mr Landor who seems incapable of acting for himself . |
| 16 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not ethical as they are acting for the landlord , ’ he says . |
| 18 | But City law firm Berwin Leighton , acting for the National Union of Journalists and the Graphical Paper and Media Union , said yesterday that all fund members could now expect full payment . |
| 19 | A LAWYER acting for Mrs Winnie Mandela appealed yesterday for an end to press speculation about her marriage to Mr Nelson Mandela as further reports surfaced alleging links with yet another township murder . |
| 20 | Mr David Mason , the London dealer acting for the composer , said : ‘ He felt strongly that the picture should n't leave the country , and the two underbidders on the telephones were both Americans . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Fred Tyler , an Edinburgh solicitor acting for Mrs Denise Anderton , the pilot 's widow , said : ‘ The sheriff has dismissed from consideration the many causal factors to this accident referred to in evidence and adopted by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch in their report . ’ |
| 22 | It enables both countries to augment their own dominant positions within the Community while pretending to be acting for the sake of ‘ Europe ’ . |
| 23 | Despite the widespread feeling that there had been a victory for parental rights , many of the Dewsbury parents claimed to have been acting for the sake of their children . |
| 24 | He was already acting for a number of young painters including Kisling , Hayden and Kremegne , and was determined to find a way of fostering Modigliani 's talent . |
| 25 | The dependence thesis does not exclude the authority from acting for other reasons which apply to it alone , and not to its subjects . |
| 26 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 27 | His next film was very laid back and one , he admitted , which was the clearest-cut job of acting for the money he had ever done … and he vowed he would never do that again . |
| 28 | Some were more active than any predecessor against some particular organism , and some had special merits in use , such as working when given by mouth , or acting for a longer period than usual . |
| 29 | A good compound would not have the unwanted actions of adrenaline on the heart and blood pressure , and would go on acting for longer . |
| 30 | Nourse LJ thought it worth mentioning Lord Blackburn 's comment , based on Blackstone , that ‘ the sheriff also was bound to raise the hue and cry , and call out the posse comitatus of the county whenever it was necessary for any police purposes ; in so doing he was acting for the Crown ’ . |