Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in favour [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The new progressive democrats came out in favour of the referendum proposal on 14 May . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 5 | But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel . |