Example sentences of "be [prep] be preferred to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be defended simply because in certain circumstances not helping is to be preferred to helping . |
| 2 | It is to be preferred to chemical disinfection which is rarely effective and can be counter-productive for these items . |
| 3 | Steps to provide common rules for employee participation in the management of public companies have been more controversial , and it has been strongly argued in the UK that a voluntary approach , reflecting the differing traditions of the member states in questions of employer-employee relations , is to be preferred to compulsory representation of employees on company boards . |
| 4 | ‘ Ethical ’ is to be preferred to ‘ moral ’ because to speak of ‘ moral positivism ’ implies that the role of law is simply to apply the moral rules of society , whereas the theory is that law deals with conflict in a way which at least in part transcends the moral disagreements endemic in societies of men or of nations . |
| 5 | ‘ Functional ’ is to be preferred to ‘ instrumental ’ because the task of dissolving conflict and dispute is not done by a legal method when it is purely conciliation and compromise of a political sort . |
| 6 | If used with care , it is to be preferred to sulphate of ammonia on heavy soils . |
| 7 | Of these identifications of a new underclass as the victim of affluence in the two-thirds ( affluent and Tory ) versus one-third ( not ) society , Bauman 's formulation is to be preferred to Saunder 's because it sets up issues which are subject to empirical review and it continues to use a conception of reproduction : |
| 8 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 . |
| 9 | But the Italian form has a better flavour , and is to be preferred to the British native , though that can still be used for cooking . |
| 10 | The double-entendre title of the latter demonstrates the continuing autobiographical element in Jane Barker 's work ; a distinctive and omnipresent theme is how a chaste , single life , enhanced by art , study , and friendship , is to be preferred to marriage . |
| 11 | Actually , I have been slipping in quite a large amount of social anthropological theory while appearing to be discussing other things , though , at the grand scale level , I still have to justify my claim that a mechanical model of functionalist integration is to be preferred to an organic model . |
| 12 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 13 | However , assuming the properties are significant assets , a full investigation of title is to be preferred to either reliance upon a certificate from the vendor 's solicitors that the vendor has a good and marketable title ( since certificates of title are qualified and their benefit depends upon the status of the firm of solicitors providing them ) or reliance upon warranties and indemnities alone since the purchaser would rather have problems disclosed before the purchase than have to rely upon a right to sue under warranties which will be subject to general limitations . |
| 14 | This was to be preferred to the more rigid prescriptions of schools like the large 11–18 Welsh comprehensive which allocated young pupils to sharply divided courses within the school : one group advancing fast to O level in four years , four groups in five years , the next four to CSE ( for which see Chapter 7 ) in five years , four groups following special technical courses , two following general technical courses , two or three on commercial courses , and finally two groups for ‘ low ability ’ pupils . |
| 15 | Hence , Ealhfrith began to favour Roman tradition while his father , Bede says , considered that nothing was to be preferred to the teachings of the Scottish clergy ( HE III , 25 ) . |
| 16 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 17 | Thank God , they had both made rational choices in marrying each other ( she had kept her maiden name because , well , other considerations apart , Maynard was to be preferred to Badcock ) … |