Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] favour of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are popular with parents and it 's no surprise that well over a thousand schools have voted in favour of such status . |
| 2 | This might be because building societies have developed some new product which personal savers prefer to National Savings certificates or it may simply be that interest rate differentials have changed in favour of the societies . |
| 3 | Neighbouring countries ' governments have intervened in favour of their own people . |
| 4 | ( ii ) At a meeting of creditors , a resolution is deemed to be passed when a majority , in value , of the creditors present personally or by proxy have voted in favour of the resolution ( r 6.88 ) . |
| 5 | Many workers in Britain have argued in favour of special family courts for divorcing families , and for divorce conciliation services , to help couples who wish to separate do so as amicably as possible ( see for example , Parkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | Many of its leading members have spoken in favour of some measure of electoral reform . |
| 7 | Viennese citizens have voted in favour of a hydroelectricity plant at Freudenau on the river Danube , south east of Vienna . |