Column sag in newspapers comes with a preference for "is likely to" over "is".
Shephard is a first-rate writer with a preference for understatement.
South overcalled three diamonds, promising length in both majors with a preference for spades.
Perhaps these cultural roots come with a preference for how to organise firms.
She is no backward-gazing snob with a preference for pedigreed antiques.
With a preference for Scalamandre and Clarence House, Smith looks like an Edith Wharton heroine and spends like one, too.
Johnson, a bowler with a preference for the head-seeking missile, was keen to explore that route.
Mr. Norton is able to pull together eclectic groups of panelists, with a preference for people with laugh-generating credentials.
This might suggest, as some have argued, that there is nothing wrong with a preference for white immigrants.
Mud turtles are omnivores with a preference for animal matter, such as arthropods, worms, small fishes, and fish eggs.
Secor's journalistic record identifies her as someone with a preference for remaking the Middle East along Western liberal lines.
