Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] favour of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 11 thousands of people in Lomé demonstrated in favour of Koffigoh , who said that he would appeal to the Supreme Court . |
| 2 | Presumably , Lloyds Bank , which Midland spurned in favour of Hongkong , is not prepared to buy in case it fails to win the bid : it still holds a stake in Standard Chartered from a similar unsuccessful venture . |
| 3 | In 1936 , Edward VII abdicated in favour of George VI . |
| 4 | He had to set the argument for delay against others which weighed in favour of publication . |
| 5 | Mr Holt appealed and the case went before Judge Hitz , who found in favour of Mrs Holt and against her husband . |
| 6 | On the following day Dertliev withdrew in favour of Zhelev , who , standing unopposed on Aug. 1 , polled 284 of the 389 votes cast . |
| 7 | Abe was a prominent candidate for the leadership in October 1987 , but eventually withdrew in favour of Noboru Takeshita , in what was widely believed to have been an agreement that he would succeed Takeshita after his two-year term . |
| 8 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 9 | The decision was reported to have been reached after a long and tense debate in which a more moderate current , headed by the Imam Abdelkader al-Hachani , a mining engineer in his early thirties , argued in favour of participation as a necessary step towards the creation of an Islamic state . |
| 10 | No one can sack us , no one can take our pensions away , in Spycatcher three of us decided in favour of Mrs Thatcher and against the editor of The Sunday Times , and those three of us did n't care a damn for the editor of The Sunday Times . |
| 11 | He decided in favour of Balliol , but made it clear that this was only the appointment of a figurehead : he himself was the true monarch . |
| 12 | Slade LJ also decided in favour of Cheall but on more modest grounds . |
| 13 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |
| 14 | In 1543 , the arguments from mathematical simplicity that worked in favour of Copernicus could not be regarded as an adequate counter to the mechanical and astronomical arguments that worked against him . |
| 15 | The refereeing could have been much stricter and the arguable decisions certainly broke in favour of Wales . ’ |
| 16 | Eddie Hemmings is already inked in , but Nick Cook — still trying to puzzle out why he has been brought here but overlooked in favour of Keith Medlycott for the West Indies — may end up as one of the drinks carriers . |
| 17 | In a referendum conducted throughout Serbia on July 2 , the majority of Serbs voted in favour of proposals for a new constitution for the republic . |
| 18 | A judge of the court — one of the three who voted in favour of Mr Yeltsin — said the ruling could be enough to clear the way for impeachment proceedings . |
| 19 | It clearly influenced the League of Nations Union ‘ Peace Ballot ’ , held in June 1935 and involving about eleven and a half million people , the majority of whom voted in favour of disarmament and the need for collective military action against aggressor nations should economic sanctions fail . |
| 20 | A Muslim cleric whose Friday sermon was broadcast on Libyan television warned diplomats from countries which voted in favour of UN sanctions against Libya to flee . |
| 21 | The problem , in short , was to find a system where the landowner could continue to create all the beneficial interests he wished in favour of members of the family , and , at the same time , would be able to deal with the land , by sale , long lease , or mortgage , as if he were a sole owner . |
| 22 | Lastly , all that Louis IX abandoned in favour of Henry III — his fiefs and domains in Limousin , Quercy , and Périgord ( the so-called ‘ three dioceses ’ ) and all that remained to the Plantagenets of the ancient duchy of Aquitaine — was to be held by the king of England as an hereditary fief . |