Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] favour of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you , Minnie , I have fallen from favour of late and through no fault of my own , whereas my husband and son rest high in Mrs Browning 's estimation . |
| 2 | Neighbouring countries ' governments have intervened in favour of their own people . |
| 3 | ( 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 ) . |
| 4 | Viennese citizens have voted in favour of a hydroelectricity plant at Freudenau on the river Danube , south east of Vienna . |
| 5 | They are popular with parents and it 's no surprise that well over a thousand schools have voted in favour of such status . |
| 6 | The Court found on the facts that it did not need to pronounce upon whether the provisions relating to the Gex Zone created a stipulation in favour of a third party , but warned that the existence of such rights should not be lightly assumed : each such claim must be separately examined to determine ‘ whether the States which have stipulated in favour of a third State meant to create for that State an actual right which the latter has accepted as such ’ . |
| 7 | We have argued in favour of retirement relief , as land is merely one of several business assets and as such does not have to be part of a disposal for that disposal to constitute a significant part of the business . |
| 8 | We have argued in favour of the tenet which underlies ( vii ) , namely that it is possible to distinguish between what the writer chooses to talk about , and how he chooses to talk about it . |
| 9 | This is why commentators such as Shaw ( 1978 ) have argued in favour of a broader ‘ social cost accounting ’ approach to settlement policy . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Those in control of the party machines — as in Britain and France — have decided in favour of movement in a Federalist direction . |
| 12 | ‘ We understand they have found in favour of us and the other UK producers , ’ said a spokesman for Kemira . |
| 13 | ‘ We understand they have found in favour of us and the other UK producers , ’ said a spokesman for Kemira . |
| 14 | ‘ We understand they have found in favour of us and the other UK producers , ’ said a spokesman for Kemira . |
| 15 | Many of its leading members have spoken in favour of some measure of electoral reform . |
| 16 | Since then , however , about 3,000 new members have failed to renew their subscriptions and 1,500 have left in favour of the Scottish Green Party . |
| 17 | With such a light loading the Vision 11 would have a sparkling performance in a broad range of wind speeds ; but its inverted vee form is a bit of a paradox after all we have stated in favour of the twist in a swept wing ! |
| 18 | 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 . |