Example sentences of "show their [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voting has a ritual aspect , whereby citizens formally and publicly show their preferences for one party over others , and hence their willingness to accept the result of the contest , and their legitimation of that result . |
| 2 | In general , then , newspapers do usually align themselves with certain political parties and do show their support for political party programmes and policies in a variety of ways , some stronger than others . |
| 3 | Today Andrew Smith , MP for Oxford east , Bruce Kent , prospective parliamentary candidate for Oxford west and Abingdon and Oxford authoress Margaret Drabble among many other well-known figures , showed their support for this measure in a full page newspaper advertisement . |
| 4 | The answer is never in doubt , and neatly topical in a week when American voters showed their preference for small-town boys over city slickers . |
| 5 | We 'd like them to say that the laws like the 1986 public order act , which after all was introduced to combat football hooliganism , and not to control people 's sexuality , should not be used to drag lesbians and gay men before the courts simply for showing their love for each other . |
| 6 | Going to my first feminist conference in the late seventies : the thrill of seeing so many women together , and , even more so , seeing so many lesbians openly showing their affections for each other . |
| 7 | Well , according to designers showing their collections for next autumn on the Paris runways this week , it 's going even further back in time . |