Example sentences of "be said [prep] favour " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 2 | The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage . |
| 3 | Moore himself said later that there was little to be said in favour of this account . |
| 4 | In view of the strength of the case against Copernicus , it might well be asked just what there was to be said in favour of the Copernican theory in 1543 . |
| 5 | In conclusion , my Lords , it seems to me that , unless the procedure adopted by the moving party is ill suited to dispose of the question at issue , there is much to be said in favour of the proposition that a court having jurisdiction ought to let a case be heard rather than entertain a debate concerning the form of the proceedings . |
| 6 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 7 | There is however much to be said in favour of the dearer and more specific articulation of substantive principles to guide the exercise of administrative discretion . |
| 8 | Although there is much to be said in favour of the notion of evolution by discrete jumps in plants , particularly through allopolyploidy involving small numbers of individuals , current orthodoxy holds that the greater part of speciation events occurs through the isolation of fragments of an initial population , the change of these fragments in response to the conditions in their isolation and , with the breakdown of isolation , the co-existence of the newly speciated populations in one locality . |
| 9 | Had the matter been res integra , there is much to be said in favour of Judge Davies QC 's reasoning . |