Example sentences of "also [vb past] in favour " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Slade LJ also decided in favour of Cheall but on more modest grounds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 1.2 Both categories of staff also voted in favour of taking industrial action in pursuance of a better deal . |