Example sentences of "[prep] behalf of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Best Western also opened a Trust account for packages operated on behalf of members of the independent hotels ' consortium . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This requires that each major service area within hospitals has a designated chief who can negotiate on behalf of colleagues with the hospital manager . |
| 8 | 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 . |