Example sentences of "[was/were] acting for the " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Two Kirkwall solicitors were acting for the four families . |
2 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
3 | 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 ’ . |
4 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
5 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |