Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in favour " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when Matilda finally pronounced in favour of a close-fitting robe of soft , unbleached linen , worn under a blue velvet over-tunic , laced at the sides to show the garment beneath , and trimmed with soft grey vair , her protests had quite died away . |
| 2 | Abe was a prominent candidate for the leadership in October 1987 , but eventually withdrew in favour of Noboru Takeshita , in what was widely believed to have been an agreement that he would succeed Takeshita after his two-year term . |
| 3 | The Attorney General , Sir Hartley Shawcross , agreed with the Lord Chancellor that the grading of murders would be unworkable , adding that he still remained in favour of providing for the abolition of capital punishment in the Bill . |
| 4 | Ministers also found in favour of allowing a methane terminal , run by the British Gas corporation less than a kilometre from the refinery site , to stay open . |
| 5 | The new patterns of the economy , the steady decline of manufacturing industry ( in which 6.5 m. of the population were directly employed at the end of the seventies ) as against the rise of the service and transport sector ( which employed 7.25 m. at the start of 1980 ) also told in favour of the redistribution of resources in favour of particular regions and occupational groups . |
| 6 | The European Court also decided in favour of two Spanish and British foreign language tutors at the University of Venice , who had been denied contracts of indefinite duration on the grounds that the posts were in the public service and that they were not Italians . |
| 7 | Slade LJ also decided in favour of Cheall but on more modest grounds . |
| 8 | Berhtfrith praefectus , almost certainly the Berhtfrith who fought on Osred 's side at Bamburgh and who later spoke in favour of a settlement with Wilfrid at the council on the Nidd ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) , perhaps also a kinsman of Berhtred , son of Beornhaeth , was involved in a conflict in 711 in what had been Manau Gododdin between the Rivers Avon and Carron when the Picts were defeated ( HE V , 24 ; ASC D , s.a. 710 ; AU s.a. 710 : AT p. 222 ) . |
| 9 | The congress also voted in favour of amending the Basic Law to allow the German armed forces to participate in UN " blue beret " humanitarian and peacekeeping operations . |
| 10 | 1.2 Both categories of staff also voted in favour of taking industrial action in pursuance of a better deal . |
| 11 | The refereeing could have been much stricter and the arguable decisions certainly broke in favour of Wales . ’ |
| 12 | And I voted , I think , if I had a vote that day , I certainly voted in favour of that , and so did members of all groups . |