Example sentences of "in favour [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Once more employer influences in favour of a restricted bargaining base were reinforced by congruent considerations on the union side . |
2 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
3 | The underground aqueduct system in the Turpan depression was abandoned many years ago in favour of a modern water system . |
4 | Salvation comes not from attachment to one 's own past , but from controlling it in favour of a higher goal . |
5 | In its final Report , the Committee conceded the force of the argument in favour of a higher penalty for indecent assault . |
6 | Mr Blackburn says he held talks about Hillbark with the council two years ago , but councillors twice rejected WPCL 's bid of £680,000 in favour of a higher offer . |
7 | The BBC 's magazine distribution arm , BBC Frontline , based in Peterborough , Cambridgeshire , has ditched its ICL Series 39 mainframe in favour of a 670 MP Unix machine from Sun Microsystems Inc , Mountain View , California . |
8 | Now you see I do n't think that you can say I 'm all against national war but , but you 're in favour of a violent revolution |
9 | Those in favour of a substantive motion please show |
10 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , more and more Anglican theologians turned their backs on the rigid predestinarian Calvinism so prevalent in the pre-1660 period in favour of a modified version of the Arminian position on salvation . |
11 | The Yorkshire handler has ruled out a trip to Aintree next week or an outing in a less demanding event in favour of a well-earned rest . |
12 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
13 | The argument in favour of a divided profession which found favour with the Royal Commission was that the existence of a separate branch of the profession ensured that there was a body of specialist advocates available to all solicitors , which would be dispersed if the two branches were fused . |
14 | Saatchi pitched against J Walter Thompson and incumbent Bozell , which last week believed the decision to appoint a pan-European Agency had been revoked in favour of a country-by-country strategy . |
15 | The effects of the 1815 settlement seemed to Louis-Napoleon to have led to the stifling of all that was noble , generous , and progressive in favour of a stultifying conservatism . |
16 | The dialectic of apparent antitheses has been suppressed in favour of a one-dimensional model of what design is ; depending on the format of precise models one of the antitheses has been subsumed or repressed under the aegis of the other . |
17 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
18 | He and Moshe Shahal , the minister for police , pronounced themselves in favour of a total withdrawal from the Golan in return for full peace with Syria . |
19 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
20 | The room reverberated with the fat woman 's cry of ‘ Rain ! ’ as she abandoned Riley in favour of a friendlier face . |
21 | Since Mr Lawson has long been in favour of a stable exchange rate — and since industry has enthusiastically supported him , by expressing its enthusiasm for membership of the European Monetary System — it is ill-placed to argue against an increase in base rates at a time when sterling was threatening to fall below three marks , although the Confederation of British Industry has predictably grumbled that the rise was unnecessary . |
22 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
23 | In the evenings the poorly organized social activities were shunned in favour of a practical study of the aliphatic alcohols and their reactions in the digestive tract . |
24 | Yet the document referred to by the cardinal did not mention a married diaconate and , somewhat oddly , one of Ottaviani 's own advisers , Carlo Balic OFM , promptly did what Ottaviani condemned , distributing pamphlets in favour of a separate schema on Mary in the Council Hall in clear contravention of the rules . |
25 | Nazarbayev was reported by the news agency Interfax to be in favour of a separate agreement between Germany and Kazakhstan on the German community in Kazakhstan . |
26 | However , the newspaper asked a simple straight-forward question , are you in favour of a self-governing Trust ? |
27 | Lothian Regional councillors will put forward a case in favour of a postal referendum when the issue is discussed at a meeting of Labour groups at the start of the annual conference of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane . |
28 | Cost , or more precisely the economies of scale in service and housing provision , is another major argument proposed in favour of a selected settlement policy . |
29 | These jettison the shared medium of Ethernet in favour of a star-shaped configuration in which each networked device sits at the end of its own private Ethernet segment , where it gets the benefit of the whole 10Mbps . |
30 | Europe has a destiny to fulfil , and in years to come it will become apparent that the best Europe is one which rejects interventionist mediocrity in favour of a European Community which will deliver the promise of a higher standard of living and political pre-eminence so justly deserved by all Europeans . |