Example sentences of "[verb] preferred " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister emphasised that even she shared the goal of monetary union , eschewing on this occasion the expression ‘ economic and monetary reform ’ which she has preferred in the past . |
| 2 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 3 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 4 | With a few obvious exceptions — most notably the highly successful chemical and pharmaceutical industries , which profit from Britain 's strength in laboratory science — industry has failed to attract the country 's top talent , which has preferred the City , the professions and academe . |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia — for many years the most reformist of the CMEA countries — was treated as a pariah by Western governments after the collapse of the Prague Spring and , under the watchful ‘ normalisation ’ of Gustav Husak 's leadership , has preferred economic stagnation to the sort of risks and reforms which could start Western trade flowing again . |
| 6 | At the level of political debate the message has also proved widely attractive , though with the qualification that whilst the political right has tended to adopt the common form , the left has preferred the more acute form of de-industrialisation . |
| 7 | Instead of taking account of and sharing variations in earnings and living standards between spouses , whatever the number of marriages , and then treating them as individuals , the British system as described above has preferred to recognise the work of caring for the young , the sick and the old by giving credits which maintain the care-taker 's entitlement to the basic state pension . |
| 8 | The consensus of modern liberal thinking has been that it does not ; it has preferred to stress the " inherently pluralistic and diverse " nature of modern societies , and the consequent need to reach a consensus or compromise among the various competing interests and groups within society . |
| 9 | It has preferred to follow rather than lead the majority of the industry 's employers and seems to have interpreted its own role as that of a safety net to protect the worst-exploited workers . |
| 10 | In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes . |
| 11 | Each linguistic community has preferred ways of organizing its various types of discourse . |
| 12 | Here the Committee has preferred to rely on speculation about hypothetical problems rather than on the unchallenged evidence that employed solicitors have conducted cases for years in the lower courts without complaint . |
| 13 | It has preferred instead to concentrate the bulk of its intellectual energies on developing a critique of capitalism and the bulk of its political energies on the devising of strategies for its removal . |
| 14 | Security is an overall office function , and the Computing Sub-Group , in its earlier discussions on security , has preferred to deal with it by ensuring that offices are kept as secure as possible , rather than by guarding individual pieces of hardware . |
| 15 | Perhaps this is why Steve Jones has preferred to spend most of his career studying snails . |
| 16 | The Government has preferred to rely upon injunctions granted by judges , rather than prosecutions to be decided by juries , to deter " leaks " from the security services . |
| 17 | Under an agreement with Belfast Harbour Commissioners , CCL has preferred user status at the terminal . |
| 18 | We talked earlier about amateur British people and we talked about amateur British magistrates and I 'm a , an amateur British magistrate , but the question that I 'm going to put next was put by a colleague of mine , who has preferred to remain anonymous , and that is , it 's proposed to fine motorists on the spot for minor offencmes in this country in the near future , and the question is , ‘ Does this system apply in other European countries , and is it a good system ? ’ |
| 19 | There were probably machines that could have lowered and pulled up the basket easily , but he 'd preferred to loop the wire around a pillar inside the Ship and , with Pion helping inside , to pull themselves up and down by sheer nomish effort . |
| 20 | You can use four point or six point bridling , the latter bring preferred by the majority , and advised here . |
| 21 | Very briefly , I would 've preferred to have seen a contract based on the end performance with the grass being cut to a structured length . |
| 22 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 23 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 24 | I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit . |
| 25 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 26 | The buoyant economy at the end of the eighties of course helped in part by increasing road congestion , forcing many to take the train who would have preferred to drive . |
| 27 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 28 | Many would have preferred Mrs Thatcher . |
| 29 | This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster . |
| 30 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |