Example sentences of "would [be] preferable to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be preferable to the ridiculous procedure of considering a station in one Bill and a high-speed link in another . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 . |