Example sentences of "[adv] acting for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A private citizen , secretly acting for the clergy , had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes . |
| 2 | Unlike Attlee or Morrison , Shawcross had been firmly opposed to the death penalty for many years as a result of his experience as counsel in a number of murder cases , usually acting for the prosecution . |
| 3 | The conference also suggested that the standard requisitions on title be amended to include a reference to whether a seller 's solicitor was also acting for the lender in the redemption of the mortgage . |
| 4 | He was now acting for the two men accused of bombing the Pan Am jumbo jet in 1988 with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 5 | In their lavish use of Japanese lacquer coupled with a relatively restrained form they were especially attractive to contemporary taste , and they sold to London dealer Bill Redford for $1.55 million ( £861,100 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , reputedly acting for the London steel magnate Ronald Fuhrer . |