Example sentences of "in favour [prep] an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to break the blockade by land across the Russian zone was rejected in favour of an airlift of supplies to West Berlin . |
| 2 | On 12 November he decided in favour of an election on 6 December . |
| 3 | Accordingly , the WEA Central Executive the retention of Tutorial Classes in the grant regulations , in favour of an increase in Ministry grant-aid above 75% of teaching costs ( 90% was proposed ) , and in favour of permission steadily to expand provision through further full-time appointments without all the conditions laid down in Recommendation 6 . |
| 4 | However , it is possible to concede that defendants should be judged on the facts as they believe them to be , and yet to argue in favour of an exception in rape cases . |
| 5 | In the second phase the promise of semiology as a method of decoding significant structures is put aside in favour of an account of a discourse wherein meaning is elucidated by moving in and out of the contexts of utterances . |
| 6 | The Court had ruled in favour of an application by a Belgian village which had sought to block the dumping of waste from the Netherlands on its land . |