Example sentences of "a strong [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like other simple sugars , glucose is soluble in water ( which is why it is easily digestible ) because it has five hydroxyl groups ( see Appendix 1 ) which have a strong attraction for water molecules , and also because the glucose molecules are physically small enough to shuffle around fairly freely in a liquid , provided there are not too many of them . |
| 2 | But he held a strong attraction for the the Duchess — and by now she was totally out of the Palace 's control . |
| 3 | This is a strong preference for short term comfort ( ie staying with what is familiar ) even though it is self-defeating in the long run . |
| 4 | The Intrex findings showed that users had a strong preference for online instruction over offline manuals ( Marcus et al ) . |
| 5 | The raccoon has a strong preference for aquatic feeding . |
| 6 | When he provided nests on two tiers , hens showed a strong preference for the lower level . |
| 7 | Nearly every study uses more than one method , though there is often a strong preference for either survey-style research or participant observation . |
| 8 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | HLA-B35 also showed a strong preference for proline at position 2 of bound peptides ( Table 1 ) , probably because of its sequence identity to HLA-B53 in the region of the B pocket of the molecule . |
| 10 | The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections . |
| 11 | Managers in excellent companies have a strong preference for doing things rather than analysing situations . |
| 12 | In the questions task , both age groups showed a strong preference for expressing intentional explanations by means of the infinitive construction ( e.g. , John wound up the toy car to make it go ) . |
| 13 | The Lords entered the fray in December with a strong preference for PR as a means of keeping both the Labour party and the Commons in check , so that in January 1918 there were disputes between the two houses as well as between and within the parties . |
| 14 | He found that when the predator shows a strong preference for one prey , as N. emarginata does for Mytilus edulis over M. callfornianus , no amount of laboratory training will alter this . |
| 15 | In many organisations , junior managers show a strong preference for working in project teams , with a clear task or objective , and working outside the normal bureaucratic structure of a large formal organisation . |
| 16 | While some reports suggested that Western donor countries including the United States had expressed a strong preference for the post to be assumed by a European , others claimed that Pakistan , which currently housed an estimated 3,000,000 Afghan refugees , had opposed the appointment of an Indian national . |
| 17 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 18 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 19 | Furthermore , for Sp1 , we have shown that the kinase has a strong preference for DNA-bound substrate , due to the fact that efficient phosphorylation only takes place when the kinase and Sp1 are bound in cis on the same DNA molecule ( 4 , 11 ) . |
| 20 | There is thus a strong tendency for individual males to intervene in every friendly dyadic interaction in which they do not have a part . |
| 21 | It is therefore arguable that the tendency towards singular reference with the mixed-descriptions is at least in part due to a strong tendency for named characters to be used as thematic subjects or main characters in continuations , although there is a small first-mention effect . |
| 22 | There was , for one thing , a strong tendency for writing to be used as a help to memory rather than as an autonomous and independent mode of communication ’ ( ibid. p. 40 ) . |
| 23 | Although it may be possible in a capitalist society to distinguish several such classes — for example , farm workers , owners of small businesses and professionals , amongst others — there is a strong tendency for such boundaries to disappear , leaving a sharp distinction between the bourgeoisie who control wealth and the proletariat who produce it . |
| 24 | The factor which most powerfully predicts deletion is deletion of the first plural element in the string ; if a plural in the phrase is going to be realized by [ s ] , there is a strong tendency for it to be realized on this first element . |
| 25 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 26 | Once US firms followed a path of low accumulation , there was a strong tendency for them to stay on it . |
| 27 | If one of the syllables in our ‘ nonsense word ’ is made longer than the others , there is quite a strong tendency for that syllable to be heard as stressed . |
| 28 | There is a strong tendency for tone-unit boundaries to occur at boundaries between grammatical units of higher order than words ; it is extremely common to find a tone-unit boundary at a sentence boundary , as in : I wont have any tea I do nt like it |
| 29 | A residence with sitting tenants will sell at a discount to its open market value , so there is a strong disincentive for landlords to relet any accommodation which becomes vacant . |
| 30 | And because this is a strong push for influence , it does n't work with people who are keenly aware of their position above you in a hierarchy , and who need to feel very much that they 're the boss . |