Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] in favour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well do you see this vote against opting out as a basically a vote in favour of the tertiary college plans for Banbury ? |
| 2 | These binocular cells can be made to fire by impulses arriving by way of fibres from either eye but there is normally a bias in favour of one eye or the other , the so-called ocular dominance of the cell . |
| 3 | If you 're really in favour of something , you vote for it twice but if you 're just a bit in favour of it you vote once . |
| 4 | The fact that some sufferers die of their addictive disease regardless of their awareness of the Anonymous Fellowships is not an argument in favour of the use of other methods of treatment which were manifestly of no help to those who did recover and which can be observed to be of no help to those who still suffer . |
| 5 | ‘ Be aware ’ does of course recommend a sensibility open rather than closed to new impressions , but even the most greedy for new experience can not embrace joy and suffering with equal fervour , there is always a bias in favour of the enjoyable . |
| 6 | The government remains committed to Green Belt protection , conservation of agricultural land etc. but states that ‘ there is , therefore always a presumption in favour of allowing applications for development having regard to all material considerations , unless that development would cause demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance ’ . |
| 7 | Finally , in tune with the government 's general philosophy , ‘ there is always a presumption in favour of allowing applications for development , having regard to all material considerations , unless that development would cause demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance ’ . |
| 8 | If DeFreitas is out and Lamb remains unable to throw the ball properly , England 's outfield would have a Madame Tussaud 's look about it , which is also a point in favour of David Capel above Derek Pringle . |
| 9 | The circumstantial nature of the account of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's teaching method and Molla Fenari 's place in it is also a point in favour of the Taskopruzade/Mecdi tradition . |
| 10 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 11 | This is , of course , not only a plea for common sense , but also an argument in favour of estimation rather than hypothesis testing — a vaccine efficacy estimate of 77% for these data has more meaning than a of 53.1 . |
| 12 | I heartily agree with him , and I suspect that that is really an argument in favour of federalism in due course — I would not necessarily be too frightened of taking that course . |
| 13 | For instance , another very common language that people use is PASCAL , there 's a growing , almost a cult in favour of it . |
| 14 | Lothian Regional councillors will put forward a case in favour of a postal referendum when the issue is discussed at a meeting of Labour groups at the start of the annual conference of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane . |
| 15 | In general voters in Ireland , like voters in all democracies , express primarily a choice in favour of one political party . |