Preference : admire-31.2












[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]



NP (Experiencer) V () that (Stimulus) S ()
NP (Experiencer) V () PP[to] (Contrast) NP (Focal_participant)
NP (Experiencer) V () PP[over] (Contrast) NP (Event) INI (Focal_participant) INI (Location_of_event)
NP (Experiencer) V () NP (Stimulus) S_ING ()
NP (Experiencer) V () S_ING (Stimulus)
NP (Experiencer) V () NP (Stimulus)
NP (Experiencer) V () NP (Stimulus) PP.attribute[for] (Attribute)
NP (Experiencer) V () S_INF (Stimulus)
NP (Experiencer) V () NP.stimulus (Stimulus)


Examples from WordNet


he favors his second daughter



Examples from VerbNet


The tourists admired the paintings.
I loved writing.
I loved to write.
The children liked that the clown had a red nose.
I loved his writing novels.
I admired him for his honesty.
I admired the honesty in him.



Examples from SemCor


As the more conservative group with strong backing from wealthy businessmen, the U.M.C.I.A. was generally favored against the more progressive, labor based U.N.F.P. The newer party campaigned heavily, while the older, more confident party expected the Moroccan merchants and small_businessmen to support them as they had done for many years.
`` In_view of the current expansion, which promises to be substantial'' he said the odds appear to favor rising interest_rates in coming months, but`` there is reason to believe the change will not be as abrupt as in 1958 nor as severe as in late 1959 and 1960''.
First, there were those Congolese( among them Joseph_Kasavubu) who favored splitting the country into small independent states, Balkanizing it.
Why, in_the_first_place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody?
But the Kennedy_Administration does n't favor import quotas.
And because fortune had favored neither the prisoner nor the red haired captain, they be each other 's undoing.
The, however, would favor the Giants' ace.
If the German people favor such a settlement we should not oppose Germany following the example of Austria.
At the central level the scrutin_uninominal_voting_system was selected over some form of the scrutin_de_liste_system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political_parties.
Third, there were those( notably Patrice_Lumumba) who favored a unified Congo with a very strong central government.
There were rumors that the Ministry_of_the_Interior favored an arbitrary,`` non-political'' process, which were indirectly affirmed when the King personally intervened in the planned meetings.
Mr._Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now famous Weider_Push-Pull_Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or`` pushing'' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way, followed by a`` pulling'' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group.
Indications are that Khrushchev( and, with him, the bulk of the Soviet people) favor peaceful coexistence and( with the exception of Berlin) the maintenance of the status_quo in the world.
Why, for_example, does he favor two tempos, rather than one, for the third movement?
This seems like an attitude favoring a sort of totalitarian bureaucracy which, under a President of the same stamp, would try to coerce an uncooperative Congress or Supreme_Court.
A_few of them said they`` preferred contemporary art''.
But he not have done so, not have found the way, had fortune favored him.
Second, there were those( Moise_Tshombe) who favored near-Balkanization, a loose federalism having a central government of limited authority, with much power residing in the states.