Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in favour [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dynastic struggle was eventually resolved in favour of the Habsburgs , but not before the death of Zápolya in 1540 . |
| 2 | After a lifetime of being emotionally devoured by him , she was suddenly discarded in favour of the detestable Damian Flint . |
| 3 | But it had been the older sister he had gone there with , and had apparently abandoned in favour of the younger , more exciting girl . |
| 4 | They may exist in favour of individuals , and in some cases in favour of a limited class , but , with the exception of the public right of fishing in tidal water , they can not exist in favour of the public at large . |
| 5 | The tide finally turned in favour of the hosts when Vancouver-Fraser Valley , with former Canada scrum-half Ian Stuart and World Cup no.8 Glenn Ennis the only capped players in view , defeated Northumberland 18–14 in another game that did not live up to expectations . |
| 6 | the proceedings are finally decided in favour of the unassisted party ; |
| 7 | Before Bodo arrived I 'd already decided in favour of the gentler angled approach through the rip from the left , with an eye on building up gradually from the small to the not-so-small . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As the present government , despite its ‘ hands off , free market ’ attitudes , is involving itself in the workings of the pub trade , then it must shoulder the responsibility for the present state of affairs and insist that arbitration on rents must be genuinely independent and not loaded in favour of the brewers . |
| 10 | A recent TV programme in the BBC 's QED series has reopened the debate about the link between nutritional supplements and children 's development , and further support in favour of the theory comes from Professor Richard Lynn of Ulster University . |
| 11 | But uncomfortable signs are growing that the uneasy line between discipline and dissent — and often very justified and necessary dissent — is being more and more breached in favour of the former . |
| 12 | King Hassan , the Maghreb 's sole reigning monarch , had issued a swift and strong condemnation of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and he went on to vote in favour of the resolution adopted at the Cairo summit . |
| 13 | The new patterns of the economy , the steady decline of manufacturing industry ( in which 6.5 m. of the population were directly employed at the end of the seventies ) as against the rise of the service and transport sector ( which employed 7.25 m. at the start of 1980 ) also told in favour of the redistribution of resources in favour of particular regions and occupational groups . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The man-hours involved in writing programs of any complexity , and particularly in debugging them , are such that , as in other areas of use , this phase will probably pass in favour of the economics of buying a proven package from a reputable source , as suitable suites of programs become available . |
| 16 | The balance of power is , therefore , clearly weighted in favour of the government of the day . |
| 17 | And when , at the beginning of 1950 , US Secretary of State Acheson conceded that the United States would now vote in favour of the return of UN members ' Ambassadors to Spain , Franco knew that the thaw had begun . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In truth , as testimonies from both sides bear witness , the combatants felt that the outcome of the conflict was irreversibly decided in favour of the Nationalists in the winter of 1937 – 38 , when Franco 's forces gained control of the town of Teruel , in southern Aragón , and were thus poised to launch an offensive on Catalonia and Valencia . |
| 21 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
| 22 | The Herbert influence in Wales , for instance , was ruthlessly dismantled in favour of the prince 's council at Ludlow . |
| 23 | The Herbert influence in Wales , for instance , was ruthlessly dismantled in favour of the prince 's council at Ludlow . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Government argues that the old system , whereby Southern Television , to take the most dramatic example , was summarily axed in favour of the newcomer TVS , was arbitrary . |
| 27 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The London effect will again work in favour of the Government . |