"has a clear preference for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to express that someone has a strong opinion about a particular thing or activity. For example, "My daughter has a clear preference for ice cream over cake."
"Vermont has a clear preference for renewable resources and would have preferred that the local renewable energy produced by this utility-owned resource had been used," Mr. Shumlin wrote.
Determination of affinity constants by fluorimetric titrations evidenced that Cbz-2Py has a clear preference for AT-rich duplex structures.
The obtained distribution ratio is 4.8 ± 0.5 indicating that in the presence of tropolone, indium has a clear preference for the organic phase, due, most likely, to the formation of an In-tropolone complex having lipophilic character.
Granzyme B has a clear preference for Asp at the P1 position while matriptase shows a preference for Arg/Lys.
It is interesting to note that the human protein DDX1, which bears a very large insertion (250 aa) between motifs I and Ia, has a clear preference for RNA as an activator for its ATPase and does not show DNA helicase activity (Fig. 4 A and 6 B).
However, it has a clear preference for binding substrates containing a 3′ extension [46].
From our previous work we know that GPs in England have a clear preference for GP notebook (preferred by 52% of those responding to our survey) over other websites [ 7].
Republicans have questioned whether Putin really had a clear preference for Trump rather than simply a general animosity toward Hillary Clinton.
"Bishop Daily failed to thoroughly investigate" accusations, the report said, and "had a clear preference for keeping priests who sexually abused children in pastoral ministry".
He had a "clear preference" for keeping abusers in ministry by quietly moving them to new parishes instead of banishing them, it said.
