Example sentences of "[det] support for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little support for the white captain among the black players and the series was disaster . |
| 2 | This finding provides some support for the logarithmic approximation made in ( 3 ) where higher order terms in a number of variables were dropped from the original specification . |
| 3 | As well as little headroom , there is even less support for the individual manager either laterally or vertically . |
| 4 | Jacobitism became an ideology of opposition , and Jacobites tended to unite around negatives ; there was much less support for the positive alternative represented by either James II or his son , the Old Pretender . |
| 5 | There should also be more investment in counselling for unwillingly pregnant women , more support for the lone mother who would keep her pregnancy if she could see a way of coping , and fewer politicians using our bodies as debating points to be scored over opponents . |
| 6 | Rural districts showed more support for the Polish Peasant Party , which was the successor to a party formerly allied with the Communists , than for the post-Solidarity party , Peasant Accord . |
| 7 | It is true that Morris contains no disapproval or qualification of Lawrence , but , in my view , the main statements of principle in these cases can not possibly be reconciled and the later case therefore must not be regarded as providing any support for the earlier . |
| 8 | ‘ They were Group-wide events which showed just what can be achieved and if we have the same support for the other planned events then we are confident we can hit our target of £10,000 . |