Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] favour of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received in favour of taxation policies to benefit the environment ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | The Chinese parliament has voted in favour of the controversial Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river , the biggest hydro-electric project in the world , which will be capable of generating one-eighth of all the power now produced in China . |
| 3 | Party loyalty has weakened in favour of PAC support in the the choice of candidate and who can run for office is limited by the need for PAC support , which is mainly given to incumbents . |
| 4 | Robin Blackburn ( Letters , 3 April ) has argued in favour of proportional representation because he sees that it will enable a New Left Party to ‘ stand under its own colours ’ . |
| 5 | Although a surge in the birth rate until the 1960s contributed to this , there is also evidence that the balance of net migration has turned in favour of rural areas . |
| 6 | Suppose now that the Chancellor has decided in favour of the petitioner , and has held that the land which legally belongs to the defendant ought to belong , or , ‘ in conscience ’ , in equity , morally , does belong to the petitioner . |
| 7 | As already stated the EC has decided in favour of a currency union . |
| 8 | The Khmers Rouges claim that Mr Pol Pot , their notorious leader from the 1970s , has retired in favour of more amiable types like Mr Khieu Samphan , who has represented the Khmers Rouges at meetings on the future of Kampuchea . |
| 9 | A judgement debt is where a debtor has been sued for an unpaid account and the court has found in favour of the creditor and issued judgement against the debtor . |
| 10 | The geographical distribution of both doctors and hospitals has remained in favour of the upper socio-economic groups with only very slight modifications . |
| 11 | ‘ The legal balance has gone in favour of the terrorist . |
| 12 | To some extent the caudillo phenomenon has worked in favour of Marxism . |
| 13 | In the case of Britain , however , and during the last 15 years especially , multi-employer bargaining within manufacturing has declined in favour of single-employer negotiations . |
| 14 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 15 | The new consciousness takes note that our society has become over-balanced in favour of the so-called masculine qualities of character . |
| 16 | On Dec. 9 the Congress rejected Gaidar by 486 votes to 467 , despite having voted in favour of a motion from Yeltsin to allow the Supreme Soviet the right to approve the appointments of the ministers of security , foreign affairs , internal affairs and defence . |
| 17 | Would you have voted in favour of the sale of the house if you 'd been given the chance . |
| 18 | The owner of a thing is the person who has , in the fullest degree , those rights of use and enjoyment , of destruction , and of disposition , which have been mentioned above — subject , of course , to the general rules of law which protect the rights of others , to certain limited rights which he or his predecessors may have created in favour of others , and , in the case of land , to rules imposed by statute under which local and other authorities may purchase property compulsorily . |
| 19 | Although he never made his views public , he is believed to have argued in favour of the review group supporting some form of electoral reform . |
| 20 | It follows that in my judgment , the requirements of section 9 have been satisfied and that the deputy judge ought to have ruled in favour of the due execution of the 18 April 1986 document . |
| 21 | That relative advantage was enhanced after the passing of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act , which allowed States to pass ‘ Right-to-Work ’ legislation prohibiting unions from insisting on ‘ closed shops ’ at plants , even those at which a majority of the workers had voted in favour of union representation in collective bargaining ( on which see Clark , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | On May 6 an attempt by opposition deputies in the People 's Assembly to remove Gramoz Rucaj from the post of caretaker Interior Minister because of the Shkodër events had been defeated , but a majority had voted in favour of dismissing Procurator General Rrapo Mino and head of the Investigator-General 's Office Qemal Lane . |
| 23 | Croatians had voted in favour of secession in May [ see p. 38024 ] but at that time had appeared not to favour an immediate declaration . |
| 24 | Results showed that 95 per cent had voted in favour of a " sovereign and independent Macedonia with a right to enter a union of sovereign states of Yugoslavia " . |
| 25 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 26 | Yesterday Alwyn Rowlands , the AEU 's regional officer , said a large majority had voted in favour of an overtime ban . |
| 27 | Plans were at an advanced stage when Hamnett , having vacillated for some time , phoned the BFC to say she had decided in favour of Paris after all . |
| 28 | He had decided in favour of Shrewsbury , if the congregation there were willing to appoint him . |
| 29 | Privately , Marjorie Richardson had decided in favour of the menopause as the culprit , but not for the world would she say such a thing to Harry . |
| 30 | She had decided in favour of traditional wedding music and a dignified procession . |