Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] favour of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 2 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 3 | Catholicism , for centuries , allied itself with conservative forces opposed to progress but now that elements within the church have come out in favour of change , they appear to be opting for a more socialist , rather than capitalist , line . |
| 4 | At long last they 've come out in favour of wealth , is n't that extraordinary , reported in today 's paper . |
| 5 | He came down in favour of microkernels , the client-server paradigm , and remote procedure calls . |
| 6 | The two breakaway parties did not affect the result decisively , as most of the " do n't knows " in the opinion polls came down in favour of the Democrats . |
| 7 | On the facts of the case the balance came down in favour of protecting the fair trial . |
| 8 | The committee reported in October 19806 and came down in favour of setting up a national body , to be known as the Committee for Colleges and Polytechnics ( CCP ) which would devise a more rational system of national funding . |
| 9 | In the same way , information about how the National Curriculum Council ( NCC ) came down in favour of more information and factual knowledge in the history curriculum after months of comment and criticism led to a holding of breath as to what precisely would emerge in the shape of revised requirements . |
| 10 | The judge at first instance invoked the wardship powers of the court to protect the girl : he weighed her interests against that of the publishers , and concluded that the balance came down in favour of restraining publication , since the book could be rendered harmless by excising a few paragraphs . |
| 11 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |
| 12 | The new progressive democrats came out in favour of the referendum proposal on 14 May . |
| 13 | In a first round of voting during the summer , and then during their closed-doors assembly at a secret spot in Berlin yesterday , the musicians came out in favour of a likeable man who has worked well with all kinds of orchestras , and who is diplomatic rather than autocratic . |
| 14 | For the last couple of times , Neil Kinnock has tried to look working class and dropped his aitches , and this year Paddy Ashdown came out in favour of a well-hung parliament and dropped his trousers . |
| 15 | ‘ Concept research ’ , followed by an omnibus quantitative survey , produced a brief for the dummy which came out in favour of the more ‘ downmarket ’ left-wing Mail on Sunday , rather than the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ . |
| 16 | Even Dale 's ( 1969 ) book which came out in favour of co-educational schooling , recognized that girls were academically less successful in such an environment . |
| 17 | Between March 23 and Andreotti 's resignation on March 29 Cossiga ( like Andreotti a Christian Democrat ) won approval from the socialists when he came out in favour of fresh elections and a revision of the role of president in the Italian Constitution . |
| 18 | The UK and other European countries came out in favour of setting strict targets on emissions of carbon dioxide , methane and nitrous oxides . |
| 19 | They 're also , Mr Mayor , interestingly coming out in favour of the individual but I must admit I applaud that and at long last in some , admittedly very modest way , er they are moving , I wo n't say to fiscal responsibility , but at least they 're learning the lessons of the recklessness of the past of their policies . |
| 20 | City sources believe that the Bank of England 's task force will come down in favour of any alternative to Taurus that is cheap and simple . |
| 21 | The truth is that the Labour party does not dare come out in favour of a programme of competition of this nature because it is in hock to the very public sector unions that have sought to oppose it over the years . |
| 22 | Well I think that Bruce Kent should call for a referendum on the issue and I think the Labour Party should come out in favour of that . |
| 23 | In carrying out the balancing exercise I , for my part , come down in favour of the freedom of speech even though it may go beyond generally acceptable limits , since there is adequate alternative protection available to a council . |
| 24 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 26 | Similarly , having identified the ideal characters of societas and universitas and recognized the existence of both modes in the history of the European state , it is not clear precisely why Oakeshott comes down in favour of societas . |
| 27 | The APU document , for example , is at pains to try and disentangle the two , but in the end comes down in favour of artistic development as being the only aspect that can reliably be assessed . |
| 28 | In response to this meeting a Soviet newscaster asserted that ‘ more than anyone else , the Soviet Union comes out in favour of an independent , neutral , non-aligned Afghanistan which maintains relations of friendship and good-neighbourliness with our country ’ . |