Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in favour [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese parliament has voted in favour of the controversial Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river , the biggest hydro-electric project in the world , which will be capable of generating one-eighth of all the power now produced in China . |
| 2 | Add an engine which offers significantly better straight-line performance than the Corrado 's and the balance starts to tip in favour of the Calibra . |
| 3 | Suppose now that the Chancellor has decided in favour of the petitioner , and has held that the land which legally belongs to the defendant ought to belong , or , ‘ in conscience ’ , in equity , morally , does belong to the petitioner . |
| 4 | A judgement debt is where a debtor has been sued for an unpaid account and the court has found in favour of the creditor and issued judgement against the debtor . |
| 5 | The geographical distribution of both doctors and hospitals has remained in favour of the upper socio-economic groups with only very slight modifications . |
| 6 | ‘ The legal balance has gone in favour of the terrorist . |
| 7 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 8 | As the weeks and months went by and the war seemed turning in favour of the Allies , I became more and more attached to the Semmens household , even to the point of getting to know some of the family friends such as Mrs Helen Margo and her sister , who owned and managed a shop of Oriental goods on Howe Street . |
| 9 | Despite opposition from the Social Democrats ( SPD ) , a law designed to change aspects of the tax system was approved by the Bundesrat ( upper house of the federal parliament ) on Feb. 14 by 35 votes to 33 , after delegations from two Länder in which the SPD participated in government — Brandenburg and Berlin — were persuaded to vote in favour of the package . |
| 10 | In view of his earlier encouraging remarks , will he now confirm that he intends to vote in favour of the private Member 's Bill on Friday ? |
| 11 | As discounting become not merely prevalent but universal , the game began to turn in favour of the customer and against IBM . |
| 12 | The new consciousness takes note that our society has become over-balanced in favour of the so-called masculine qualities of character . |
| 13 | Would you have voted in favour of the sale of the house if you 'd been given the chance . |
| 14 | But it will still have to vote in favour of the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum this spring before the treaty is allowed come into effect . |
| 15 | In his horror at what happened in the House of Commons , he started to speak in favour of the motion . |
| 16 | Although he never made his views public , he is believed to have argued in favour of the review group supporting some form of electoral reform . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , and despite these perennial financial difficulties , the BBC — and countless others — have continued to argue in favour of the licence fee . |
| 18 | It follows that in my judgment , the requirements of section 9 have been satisfied and that the deputy judge ought to have ruled in favour of the due execution of the 18 April 1986 document . |
| 19 | Privately , Marjorie Richardson had decided in favour of the menopause as the culprit , but not for the world would she say such a thing to Harry . |
| 20 | True , they had done so in Roman times , but since then the state 's institutional decline meant that the terms of the competition had shifted in favour of the regions and the aristocracy . |
| 21 | Preservation of the graves was only assured after Parliament had pronounced in favour of the City . |
| 22 | ( In November 1991 a Supreme Court had ruled in favour of the status quo being maintained — see p. 38682 ] . |
| 23 | By the end of 1986 there had been 84 reported decisions on the 1977 Act in the High Court and 41 of these had gone in favour of the homeless . |
| 24 | Erm by nineteen forty eight the military situation had changed in favour of the Communist Party and their policies reflected this . |
| 25 | ( 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 ) . |
| 26 | I accept that erm and of course he 's dealing with it , approaching it from the basis that that factual issue is one she 's resolved in favour of the plaintiff erm it may be that there 's very little issue between us , it may be that the defendant would concede if your Lordship were to find that er the plaintiff had been asking Mr on several occasions to get him out of the contract , it may be conceded , I know not . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | His mouth remained closed in favour of the second mouth conveniently nearer the lungs . |
| 29 | The Buckinghamshire freeholders who lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the Tory local landowner , Sir John Verney , in fact also tended to poll in favour of the Whigs . |
| 30 | Standún , intended to vote in favour at the referendum along with ‘ many clergymen ’ ( Irish Times , 10 May 1986 ) . |