Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] support for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trish voiced her support for the vice-presidential campaign of Gerlandine Ferraro . |
| 2 | China declared its support for the international ban on the importation of African ivory in June last year . |
| 3 | But miners in Russia 's biggest coalfield , Kuzbass in western Siberia , declared their support for the embattled president and threatened to strike . |
| 4 | Putting aside his choice of partner , the lady who publicly declared her support for the barbaric practice of ‘ necklacing ’ those who step out of line , there is his friendship with Col Gaddafi , who is said to have paid the bill for the ANC leader 's recent tour of North Africa , as well as contributing $135,000 to Mrs Mandela 's defence . |
| 5 | She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system . |
| 6 | The large-scale youth unemployment coincided with a collapse in apprenticeship schemes as industry , in recession , withdrew its support for the part-time vocational courses that were the stock-in-trade of the further education colleges , many of whom had evolved from the old mechanics institutes . |
| 7 | Two centuries after Hale 's pronouncement , Pollock B. unequivocally expressed his support for the marital rape exemption in similar terms . |