Example sentences of "[vb pp] over in favour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storehouse said Simons was due to be passed over in favour of BhS finance director Graham Rider next year . |
| 2 | Female graduates facing ever-increasing competition were often passed over in favour of their male classmates even when they possessed better qualifications . |
| 3 | Gender relations themselves can get passed over in favour of a purely psychological idea of femininity ; this generates the conflation between humanism and woman-centredness in Miller 's and Gilligan 's work . |
| 4 | Newer materials , such as acrylics , which are being used by an increasing number of artists , are virtually passed over in favour of longer selection on preparing gesso . |
| 5 | Iago 's first stated reason for hating his master is that he has been passed over in favour of ‘ a great arithmetician ’ , a ‘ counter-caster ’ , Michael Cassio ( Othello , I.i.19–31 ) . |
| 6 | The argument was not without precedent : in 1316 Louis X 's daughter Jeanne had been passed over in favour of his brother Philip V , and Philip 's own daughters had been excluded in 1321 in favour of his youngest brother , Charles IV . |
| 7 | When his father raised the question of who should inherit the estate after him , and whether he should choose ‘ heirs general ’ , that is to say , include females in the vexed question — in an earlier generation , four sisters had been passed over in favour of a Boswell nephew — Boswell consulted Johnson repeatedly , before the matter was resolved to Boswell 's general satisfaction . |
| 8 | He entertained hopes of succeeding Denham upon the latter 's death in 1669. but was passed over in favour of Wren , being compensated by the grant of a pension of £300 per year in recognition of ‘ loyal and faithfull service ’ . |