Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] favour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the climbers who made written comment , the majority were in favour of a bolt placement . |
| 2 | Among trade union members 70 per cent were in favour , while 75 per cent of Green Party members opposed abolition . |
| 3 | Some MPs and peers were in favour of one but not the other . |
| 4 | Most atheists were in favour of abolishing blasphemy while nearly all Muslims wanted it to cover Islam . |
| 5 | However , ‘ many officers interviewed were in favour of administrative dismissal , not currently available under police regulations . ’ |
| 6 | None of the other EC members have any sympathy for General Noriega or seriously doubt that the results of last year 's general election were in favour of the Panamanian opposition . |
| 7 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 8 | The highest support for taking measures to protect the landscape was among the 35–44 age group , where 80 per cent were in favour . |
| 9 | The highest support for taking measures to protect the landscape was among the 35–44 age group , where 80 per cent were in favour . |
| 10 | Unisys customers , attending a bi-annual meeting of the Unisys Users ' Association in Amsterdam this month , were in favour of the new direction , but they feel it is time the company put its head above the parapet : ‘ Unisys has very good products , but they never tell anyone about them , ’ said one insurance company systems manager . |
| 11 | The deputy head ( curriculum ) proposed that a formula approach be considered by faculty heads and most were in favour of developing such a system . |
| 12 | Less than a quarter were in favour of the government having the power to expropriate land , which offers little support to the opposition to the landed elite thesis ( Johnson 1972 ) . |
| 13 | Many Protestants , like himself , were in favour of civil rights . |
| 14 | Last word from the local council was that they were in favour of providing some form of skateboard facility . |
| 15 | They were in favour of the A3 eastern bypass and in any future discussions would support ‘ what is right for Grayshott ’ . |
| 16 | There were the people who were in favour of ‘ baiting the goons ’ and those who for various reasons thought this was ‘ bad Policy ’ . |
| 17 | That was the question the Science Programme Committee had to consider yesterday — and all the indications were in favour of ISO . |
| 18 | After wide debate , the majority of the Branches were in favour of extending the mandatory requirement of CPD to all members , but such a proposal is unlikely to get the support of the membership if put to a referendum . |
| 19 | There is also a remote , but possible , danger that on contentious matters with a social context , the Protocol procedure could be abused for the purpose of eliminating opposition from the UK to measures where , for example , the UK , Spain and Portugal ( a blocking minority of 23 votes ) would oppose a measure of which the other member states were in favour . |
| 20 | However , when the question of dropping the old title was brought up , many people protested strongly and were in favour of retaining Black Hats versus White Hats . |
| 21 | The subject was whether they would support an initiative to tighten up laws on pornography , and all were in favour . |
| 22 | They were offered the three alternative thresholds taken from the Institute 's recent consultative document and only 18% opted for the VAT registration limit ( turnover £36,600 ) ; 47% were in favour of the VAT cash accounting limit , and 35% opted for the EC small companies definition . |
| 23 | So long as they were in favour , they were free to feather their nests , which Andrei did as industriously as anyone else . |
| 24 | UAPT and , particularly , CD were in favour of this , and lenders would not object ; indeed , the Finance Houses Association told us that some of their members already include this information on proposal forms . |
| 25 | If we said we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some teachers would think we were advocating a return to old-fashioned exercises in parsing and clause analysis . |
| 26 | We ended up with a rash of headlines , some announcing that we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some that we were against . |
| 27 | Seton and Ramsay were in favour , especially as this might well have a delaying effect on invasion moves . |
| 28 | Finally , the village case study revealed that none of the village practitioners were in favour of promoting the LGS message . |
| 29 | However , all those who said they were in favour were asked if their opinions would change if restoration led to the execution of an innocent person , something AI believes is inevitable under any judicial system . |
| 30 | Forty-six per cent were in favour , 46 per cent against residential homes , with 6 per cent making both positive and negative comments . |