Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] favour [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , philosophy is just a certain type of writing in which the signifying element of language has been illusorily repressed in favour of the signified . |
| 2 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 3 | The 1979 Conservative election manifesto claimed : ‘ The balance of our society has been increasingly tilted in favour of the state at the expense of individual freedom … this election may be the last chance we have to reverse that process . ’ |
| 4 | Moreover , despite its ‘ classical ’ predictions , the neo-classical synthesis was firmly grounded methodologically in the principle of effective demand : the classical money wage-real wage-employment nexus had been completely abandoned in favour of the money wage-price level-aggregate demand-employment nexus . |
| 5 | Radio and television reporting of the campaign was alleged to have been heavily weighted in favour of the NSF , although opposition parties were granted access to the government-controlled media . |