Example sentences of "this [noun] in favour [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brasel and Quigley ( 1977 ) reversed this finding in favour of signing producing the best English development . |
| 2 | The floating of the pound in 1972 symbolized this turnaround in favour of sustaining expansion regardless of the inflationary cost . |
| 3 | Morrissette 's interpretative strategy was derived from Robbe-Grillet 's own departure from this standpoint in favour of a more ‘ subjectivist ’ view . |
| 4 | Partly because of this distinction in favour of processions at common law , it was seen to be necessary for the police to be given statutory powers to control potentially disruptive processions ( but not meetings ) in the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 5 | Again , why should higher level components not abandon this string in favour of the many thousands of better scoring strings ? |
| 6 | Now it was possible for a settlor who conveyed land to A to direct him to hold to the use of B ; and then to direct that , on the happening of an event , e.g. B 's marriage , B's use should shift to C. This use in favour of C was a shifting use . |
| 7 | This use in favour of D was a springing use . |
| 8 | It is true that they frequently spoke in terms of a division between Whigs and Tories , especially in Anne 's reign ; yet there were times when they rejected this language in favour of a distinction between Court and Country parties or even some multi-party formulation . |
| 9 | But if we reject this view in favour of memory as a property of the brain as a system , rather than of its individual cellular and molecular components , then memory will depend not on distinct biochemistry but on just which cells and synapses are showing the changes , where they are located in the nervous system , and which other cells they make contact with . |
| 10 | By 1923 the scissors had opened too widely in the opposite direction , this time in favour of the towns . |
| 11 | Again the word massacre was dropped , this time in favour of ‘ a tragedy of major proportions ’ . |
| 12 | Last year , this revamped contest attracted Desert Orchid , but the grey misses out this time in favour of Wincanton on Thursday , leaving the prize at the mercy of Martin Pipe 's Sabin du Loir . |
| 13 | A psychoanalyst would perhaps say that we learn to deny ourselves this satisfaction in favour of more sublimated pleasures . |