Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] favour [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , philosophy is just a certain type of writing in which the signifying element of language has been illusorily repressed in favour of the signified . |
| 2 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 3 | There are two ancient mild steel peg belays here , but they are best ignored in favour of something a touch more modern . |
| 4 | If Labour wins or there is a hung Parliament , then the cyclicals are best sold in favour of overseas earners like BOC , Shell , Grand Metropolitan and BAT Industries . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 1 ) This section applies to proceedings to which a legally assisted person is a party and which are finally decided in favour of an unassisted party . |
| 6 | the proceedings are finally decided in favour of the unassisted party ; |
| 7 | But managers do not respond to competition in simplistic ways and price signals , which are in any case weak , are usually ignored in favour of other factors which purchasers deem to be more important , for example GP referral patterns . |
| 8 | Since the scales are now balanced in favour of women , why are there still so few senior executive level females in major UK companies ? |
| 9 | Any grubby social thoughts the film might have evoked can be swiftly rejected in favour of a more universal muse . |
| 10 | ( 5 ) Where a solicitor or licensed conveyancer , or an agent or employee of a solicitor or licensed conveyancer , in the course of or in connection with a transaction involving the disposition or creation of an interest in land , purports to deliver an instrument as a deed on behalf of a party to the instrument , it shall be conclusively presumed in favour of a purchaser that he is authorised so to deliver the instrument . |
| 11 | Corned beef is a traditional favourite and should not be totally forgotten in favour of other more refined ( and more expensive ) meats . |
| 12 | Charles and James would find that , despite the publicized openness of the modern Conservative Party , the lower middle class still tends to be restricted to the lower political positions ; even at a local level , power continues to be unevenly distributed in favour of the upper middle class ( Butler and Pinto-Duschinsky , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Whilst most writers resort to some form of categorization of responses , there is a general emphasis , underlined by Kaelin , that , whilst such structuring may be useful for learning or communication , its value is transitory and it should be readily discarded in favour of the unity of the aesthetic experience itself . |
| 14 | The committee was to consist of 35 members and its composition would be heavily weighted in favour of the VP , with 24 of its members from the ruling group , four from the opposition Union of Moderate Parties ( UMP ) and the other seven from various social and religious organizations in the community . |
| 15 | Conflicts between central and local governments are the only serious ones which can arise within the liberal democratic state , and are invariably resolved in favour of the centre , where the executive committee of the national bourgeoisie is located . |
| 16 | The 1979 Conservative election manifesto claimed : ‘ The balance of our society has been increasingly tilted in favour of the state at the expense of individual freedom … this election may be the last chance we have to reverse that process . ’ |
| 17 | Few contested actions are nowadays decided in favour of media defendants . |
| 18 | Emilia showed little wish to speak , Louisa had to content herself with reading aloud beside the bed , though the books she suggested were soon rejected in favour of such verses as those of Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld — works that were not at all to her own taste . |
| 19 | surplus arising out of the operation to be distributed to members in proportion to their purchases ; this was originally distributed through dividends , later it was paid through trading stamps but is now being increasingly abandoned in favour of lower prices ; |
| 20 | Admittedly , conditions at Gulfstream were heavily stacked in favour of the Americans , who are more accustomed to the heat and humidity , the dirt and the tight tracks . |
| 21 | The first , intuitive and morphological approaches ( Linton , 1968 ) were heavily biased in favour of land form , and were divided into two stages . |
| 22 | Moreover , despite its ‘ classical ’ predictions , the neo-classical synthesis was firmly grounded methodologically in the principle of effective demand : the classical money wage-real wage-employment nexus had been completely abandoned in favour of the money wage-price level-aggregate demand-employment nexus . |
| 23 | Ask a hundred people what their least favourite part of the Spectrum is and the odds are heavily stacked in favour of the keyboard being pointed out as a prime culprit . |
| 24 | Radio and television reporting of the campaign was alleged to have been heavily weighted in favour of the NSF , although opposition parties were granted access to the government-controlled media . |
| 25 | Currently , the main attention and content of reform is largely imbalanced in favour of the more basic of the cognitive goals , to the relative neglect of higher-order cognitive goals , and to a very strong passivity when it comes to personal/social development goals . |
| 26 | A number of arguments is usually advanced in favour of a selected or key settlement policy for rural areas rather than a strategy of dispersed growth . |
| 27 | Third , the political rationale of state interventions is often ignored in favour of economic explanations only . |
| 28 | Gregory Woods 's remark , quoted at the beginning of this article , suggests , in a rather deliriously utopian , post-Barthes kind of way , that any text can be opened up to a gay interpretation if gay readers decide it to be appropriate — authorial intention is here surrendered in favour of a sort of subcultural authorship , a collective ‘ special thrill ’ , a method of analysis based on a recognition of shared structures of feeling . |
| 29 | However , my master plan is invariably dropped in favour of readers ' questions . |
| 30 | It redresses the imbalance in the existing historical literature of the period , which is heavily weighted in favour of economic and political issues . |