Example sentences of "[prep] favour of a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panel notes difficulty in making exact comparisons but found the weight of evidence was ‘ in favour of a dose of 0.25 mg triazolam being roughly equivalent to a dose of 30 mg flurazepam or 20 mg temazepam ( UK formulation ) . |
| 2 | With a budget of $70 million , Spielberg has splashed out on elaborate sets and fancy effects , while the bigger stars deferred their salaries in favour of a share of profits . |
| 3 | With a budget of $70 million , Spielberg has splashed out on elaborate sets and fancy effects , while the bigger stars deferred their salaries in favour of a share of profits . |
| 4 | I therefore come down firmly in favour of a principle of appointed members . |
| 5 | The initial poll , which resulted in a 713-711 vote in favour of a split from local authority control , was ruled ‘ unsafe ’ by Mr Patten . |
| 6 | SKIPTON building society , the UK 's fifteenth-largest , has terminated its five-year old tied-agency agreement with the life assurer , Legal & General , in favour of a link with GA Life , the York-based offshoot of General Accident . |
| 7 | In 1983 , when the South Wales Branch voted to strike on the issue of closure , the Yorkshire Area Council voted by 73 to 27 in favour of a strike in support , in line with the 1981 agreement , but the issue went to a national ballot for a strike , which was once again lost . |
| 8 | If I could cite one example of that , the accountancy profession recruits seventy per cent of its intake from non-accountancy graduates , and in fact , a student taking accountancy , and getting a not particularly good degree , even a lower second class honours degree , can sometimes be regarded by employers as having demonstrated not particularly good aptitude for accountancy , and be discounted in favour of a candidate from another major subject , who 's got a better class of degree . |
| 9 | Eventually , after further compromises to meet British objections about the public nature of the ministerial meetings , the foreign ministers of the Brussels states issued a communiqué on 29 January 1949 in favour of a Council of Europe ‘ consisting of a ministerial committee meeting in private and a consultative body meeting in public ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Dr. Roy 's printed case contained detailed arguments in favour of a contract between him and the committee , but before your Lordships Mr. Lightman simply argued that the doctor had a private law right , whether contractual or statutory . |
| 11 | In a response to my hon. Friend the Member for Newham , North-West ( Mr. Banks ) on Thursday , the Prime Minister made it clear that he would not be supporting the Wild Mammals ( Protection ) Bill , which will come before the House on Friday , but did not clarify whether he is in favour of a ban on fox hunting . |
| 12 | Berhtfrith praefectus , almost certainly the Berhtfrith who fought on Osred 's side at Bamburgh and who later spoke in favour of a settlement with Wilfrid at the council on the Nidd ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) , perhaps also a kinsman of Berhtred , son of Beornhaeth , was involved in a conflict in 711 in what had been Manau Gododdin between the Rivers Avon and Carron when the Picts were defeated ( HE V , 24 ; ASC D , s.a. 710 ; AU s.a. 710 : AT p. 222 ) . |
| 13 | In adolescence Rose of Lima seriously considered this option , but in fact was led by her own inner genius to reject it in favour of a hut in her own garden . |
| 14 | It appeared that Jarrad , in which the pursuers ( plaintiffs ) were minority shareholders , had granted a security in favour of a creditor of Jesner & Sons Ltd and had also made interest free loans to Jesner in which all of the parties were shareholders . |
| 15 | Section 123(1) confirms inability to pay if execution or other process issued on a judgment , decree or order of any court in favour of a creditor of the company is returned unsatisfied in whole or in part . |
| 16 | A more successful change was the abandoning of the course-knit , lace-up jersey in favour of a shirt with buttons at the neck and a turn-over collar . |
| 17 | Under the slogan " New Parliament for an Independent Ukraine " , opposition movements and parties , including Rukh and the Congress of National Democratic Forces of Ukraine [ see p. 39060 ] had started a campaign for a 3,000,000-signature petition in favour of a referendum on fresh elections to the Supreme Soviet . |
| 18 | These included : ( i ) extension of coverage to octopus , cuttlefish , primary cocoa products and essential oils ; ( ii ) lowering of dependency thresholds ( that is , the importance of an ACP country 's exports of a relevant product as a proportion of its total exports ) from 6 per cent to 5 per cent and from 1.5 per cent to 1 per cent in the case of the least developed countries ( LDCs ) ; ( iii ) abolition of the principle of repayment of interest-free loans granted under Stabex when export earnings permitted ( under Lome III only the LDCs had been exempted ) ; ( iv ) abolition of the Lome III mechanism for correcting exchange-rate fluctuations ( often called the " tunnel " ) in favour of a system of calculations based on the ECU . |
| 19 | Clarinets are , however , omitted from its scoring in favour of a pair of oboes . |
| 20 | Indeed , for many the very idea of attaining a political focus has been discarded in favour of a celebration of fragmentation . |
| 21 | They considered , inter alia , the arguments in favour of a trial by jury in these cases ; whether there are types of cases which could be dealt with effectively or justly outside the criminal justice system ; and also whether there should be a properly structured system of plea bargaining with proper safeguards . |
| 22 | Apparent first signs of a crack in establishment resolve occurred on Feb. 19 when Djibril Diallo , political secretary of the ruling Mali People 's Democratic Union ( UDPM ) and the number two in the party , spoke in a broadcast interview in favour of a change to multiparty democracy . |
| 23 | There are , however , strong counter-arguments in favour of a change in terminology . |
| 24 | It seems that those in favour of a change in the present restrictions have won the day ; for the repeal of s39 of the Solicitors Act was specifically designed to facilitate MDPs . |
| 25 | Before ten minutes had passed he had rejected this in favour of a 50″ × 40″ canvas that made possible a full-length portrait ( Plate 19 ) . |
| 26 | In particular the Party had been persuaded to drop its earlier insistence on restoring Alsace-Lorraine to France in favour of a plebiscite under League of Nations control . |
| 27 | Most disconcerting , to those who love The Discarded Image , is the apparent cheerfulness with which he abandons the depth and range of his historical imagination in favour of a style of rhetoric which seems more reminiscent of the Belfast police courts . |
| 28 | In terms of effects on the supply of work effort , a case against the current system of direct taxes and in favour of a switch towards indirect taxes might be made in the specific cases of poverty and unemployment traps . |
| 29 | The abandonment of Lindisfarne by Oswiu in favour of a bishop at York implies an awareness on the part also of Oswiu of the importance of York in the Gregorian scheme for two metropolitan provinces in England . |
| 30 | Designer interior decoration has been spurned in favour of a mix-and-match of the old and beautiful ; gilt-framed mirrors and prints ; oak and mahogany furniture and softly coloured linens . |