Example sentences of "be [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought that overreaction would at least be preferable to the apathy currently being shown by both the government and general public alike . |
| 2 | However , a Midland Bank spokesman said the group expected the dividend flow from the investments acquired to be preferable to the dividend flow from its Argentinian loan portfolio . |
| 3 | A loss might be made on this transaction , but such a loss would be preferable to the total abandonment of one 's savings or wealth , which would in any case have still had a value as bullion . |
| 4 | The various experiments taking place at the present time in the use of graded tests ( for example in the Borough of Croydon ) tend to show that this form of examination would , in all kinds of ways , be preferable to the system we have . |
| 5 | This may be preferable to the opposite mistake ( where someone 's understanding is far stronger than his faith ) , but a better way is to develop both faith and understanding together . |
| 6 | It was a desperate plan , with little hope of success , but Caledor and many like him thought a last desperate gamble would be preferable to the slow death the Elf people were enduring . |
| 7 | It would be preferable to the plans for an ugly toll bridge . |
| 8 | This would be preferable to the ad hoc provisions available under Section 11 of the Competition Act 1980 , whereby the Secretary of State for Trade can direct the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to investigate efficiency , costs , the level of quality of the service provided and possible misuse of monopoly power within nationalized industries . |
| 9 | The use of better measures of ( housing ) deprivation , such as the Census-based ACORN ( A Classification of Residential Neighbourhoods ) or PINPOINT schemes would undoubtedly be preferable to the current indicators . |
| 10 | It might appear that chaining or tagging would always be preferable to the simpler system of storing records in the next available position . |
| 11 | If it is decided that use of a measure of material deprivation is informative and conceptually sound , then simple measures based on easily available and regularly updated measures would be preferable to the opaque and statistically complex derived indices . |
| 12 | Lydia had said that one night 's fast would be preferable to the plight in which they did indeed now find themselves , but Betty regarded the idea of missing a meal as unnatural and Lydia was overruled . |
| 13 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |
| 14 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |
| 15 | That would be preferable to the ridiculous procedure of considering a station in one Bill and a high-speed link in another . |
| 16 | ‘ Anything would be preferable to the ordeal of the last five minutes , ’ she managed to croak . |
| 17 | Indeed , as a matter of political necessity at home , it had to assume ( and this had also weighed heavily with Roosevelt ) that a return to the " old power politics system " would be abhorrent to the great mass of Americans . |
| 18 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 19 | Equally , it did not find the hotel 's practice of sanctioning certain refusals of offers of work by the temporary suspension of further offers to be inimical to the absence of an employment relationship . |
| 20 | In a sense , repressing all that was deemed to be inimical to the regime was the " easy " part of the task of consolidating the result of the Civil War . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps it would be better if Bob stays and then he 'll be nearer to the high moor if the weather clears . |
| 22 | She would have liked to be nearer to the panel , but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll be nearer to the radiator . ’ |
| 24 | Searching for papers can be annoying to the person being called and it wastes time and money . |
| 25 | But it could be annoying to the person holding on . |
| 26 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 27 | Aunt Harriet would have been cross , normally , for the seat of the swing made green press-marks on her skirt , but the visitor had spoken up for her , taken whatever blame there was and Aunt Harriet had led Eleanor away to wash her hands before tea , telling her how very , very lucky she was , and how she must always be grateful to the Minister and remember this occasion in future years . |
| 28 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 29 | I shall always be grateful to the teachers who required us to memorise both poetry and Bible passages which are now part of me . |
| 30 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |