Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour 's new environment spokesman , Mr Bryan Gould , attacked the price of shares in the water privatisation , saying it showed that the Government was prepared to accept on behalf of the taxpayer a loss of at least £1.3 billion in order to sell off the water industry . |
| 2 | It was also thought that the presence of a WEA officer such as the tutor-organiser at branch AGMs and committee meetings was liable to bring improper influence to bear on behalf of the District Secretary . |
| 3 | The Serbian Government must recognise that they should extend to the Albanians exactly the rights and privileges that they seek to secure on behalf of the Serbs in , for example , Croatia . |
| 4 | While McLaren was in Hollywood attempting to raise money for his film , Branson and John Varnom took Lydon to lunch and , over pork kebabs , persuaded him to appear on Top of the Pops to promote the single ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ . |
| 5 | There is a fully-equipped diving base which conducts courses for both beginners and the advanced , with instructors who are qualified to certify on completion of the course . |
| 6 | Nobody is seriously being invited to stand on top of the mountain of verbiage and get an overview . |
| 7 | Nobody is seriously being invited to stand on top of the mountain of verbiage to get an overview . |
| 8 | A campaign group that 's been set up to lobby on behalf of the thousands of people who are thought to have lost their pensions says there 's lttle hope of Alan 's ever being refunded … |
| 9 | In any event , the proposal came close to being passed , and failed only because of last year 's legislative jam-up , Helping it along were the customary health-lobbying tactics , such as having Senator Barry Goldwater , still recuperating from a double hip-joint replacement , hobble into a hearing room on crutches to testify on behalf of the proposed institute . |
| 10 | Again , in St Michael 's there was a chantry priest worth £40 and two more with £20 each ; their incomes were normal — round about £6 a year — but they ( and others ) must have had opportunities to officiate on behalf of the wealthy fraternities in the city , of which the Trinity Guild had £209 a year . |
| 11 | And , notwithstanding the very high authority of Lord Coke , I think it is not the fact that to accept prompt payment of a part only of a liquidated demand can never be more beneficial than to insist on payment of the whole . |
| 12 | … then , without any question of resort to a court of equity , there might have been a defence in a court of law on the ground that any money recoverable on the note by the plaintiffs was recoverable by them merely as trustees for Sir Richard Temple , and that , under the circumstances disclosed by the correspondence , the relations between the father and son were such that it was impossible to suppose that the father wished to insist on payment of the note by the son . |
| 13 | So is the military objective of sending troops to insist on acceptance of the Vance-Owen plan . |
| 14 | To his mild surprise he found himself confronted by rows of peers determined to fight on behalf of the brewing industry , a fearsomely effective lobby . |
| 15 | Dwarfs are not recruited into the state regiments , but each local community is ready to send its menfolk to fight on behalf of the Emperor . |
| 16 | When a right-wing revolt broke out against the newly-elected president portes Gil , the Communists , who were highly influential with the peasant Leagues , instructed them to fight on behalf of the government to help quell the uprising . |
| 17 | Indeed , Hitler 's rise to power was based on a promise to fight on behalf of the powerless against ‘ big business ’ . |
| 18 | Prior to the vote President Ngiratkel Etpison lobbied key individuals and groups within the country and , on Dec. 27 , initiated the formation of a Council of Joint Leadership to campaign on behalf of the compact . |
| 19 | In Queensland , Australia , I saw a water jump that was easy and cheap to build on top of the ground . |
| 20 | En route for Baghdad he met Mitterrand in Paris on Jan. 11 , EC foreign ministers and also Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar ( who had been seeking to mediate on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement ) in Geneva later that day , and King Hussein of Jordan in Amman that evening . |
| 21 | Team manager Mike Bantin , manager of Folkestone , said : ‘ The team won the South Eastern area fun day competitions on the last two occasions , so we relished the opportunity to compete on behalf of the company in a national event . ’ |
| 22 | They may , in fact , come to rest on top of the earlier formation , at least at the edge . |
| 23 | The centralization and concentration of capital produces pressures on the state to intervene on behalf of the monopolies because the state has to regulate the contradictions of monopoly capitalism : it must smooth out the business cycle . |
| 24 | There seems to be a view in the medical profession that in such emergency circumstances the next of kin should be asked to consent on behalf of the patient and that , if possible , treatment should be postponed until that consent has been obtained . |
| 25 | However to attract parents and others to invest on behalf of the child the initial investment is £50 , with additional payments of £25 or a monthly savings plan of £10 . |
| 26 | However to attract parents and others to invest on behalf of the child the initial investment is £50 , with additional payments of £25 or a monthly savings plan of £10 . |
| 27 | However to attract parents and others to invest on behalf of the child the initial investment is £50 , with additional payments of £25 or a monthly savings plan of £10 . |
| 28 | Can I book you to go on top of the bonfire |
| 29 | Who would who would want you to go on top of the bonfire . |
| 30 | Cut out five tiny circles of white fondant ( to go on top of the spaceship ) and place on non-stick paper . |