Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems most surprising that the breweries consider the large open space to be the pub 's ideal internal form , or believe the artificial , standardised ‘ historic ’ pub interior to be preferable to genuine historic detail , when the original internal divisions and features are essential elements of the historic character that customers expect when entering such a building . |
| 2 | Either would be preferable to continuing to try to muddle through with neither . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Butler Committee argued that relatively minor mental disorders may be regarded as falling within section 2 simply because this outcome is thought to be preferable to mandatory life imprisonment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Roger Peach , of the National Grammar Schools Association , says charging fees would be preferable to oblivion . |
| 8 | Although this fate , however tragic , would certainly be preferable to possible torture and execution , I know that Leslie himself , who volunteered so often to do something ‘ useful ’ , would have preferred to be killed actually fighting , like Bradford and Fenwick . |
| 9 | Since I am involved in this affair , it would be preferable to me if he were dealing with it . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , an inadequate indicator may be preferable to no indicator ; failure to include death rates in the formula would mean that funds were even less related to need than at present . |
| 12 | On the one hand , it may be preferable to a partnership because the benefits associated with separate legal personality are still available . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If this argument is accepted , some job losses in the short term would be preferable to both companies remaining in an unviable position with the possibility of complete closure for both in the long run . |
| 15 | There are situations in which one technique will be preferable to all others , and which of these is most suitable depends on the particular situation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This does not imply that existing defectives should be done away with , nor that we should condemn the decision of a couple , whose foetus is at risk , that to have a retarded baby would be preferable to having none at all . |
| 18 | It would be preferable to the plans for an ugly toll bridge . |
| 19 | If this is so then increasing the counselling skills of general practitioners may be preferable to widening the primary health care team . |
| 20 | However , if an activity is deemed unacceptable , it would seem that even partial enforcement would be preferable to no enforcement at all . |
| 21 | But she was starting to feel that making music underground might not be too unacceptable a way of living , it might be preferable to certain compromises , when an unpleasant thing happened . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The fact that both Liz and Alix seemed to accept that extra Latin might be preferable to netball indicated that further interchange might be possible , and they continued to talk , through the fruit tart and custard , of the nature of intellectual and physical education , of matter and spirit , of Descartes ( brought up by Esther ) , of T. S. Eliot ( brought up by Alix ) and of schizophrenia ( brought up by Liz ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It might appear that chaining or tagging would always be preferable to the simpler system of storing records in the next available position . |
| 26 | Here outright oppression and denial of rights is less troublesome than the benevolence of a personally known and trusted employer ; a quiet word with the boss will often be preferable to calling in a more remote and impersonal organization to settle any differences . |
| 27 | Therefore , from the social point of view , vertical integration would be preferable to vertical separation . |
| 28 | That is , it is probably undesirable for co-operative R&D ventures to include all producers of a competing range of products , and two or more co-operative projects serving the same downstream industry are likely to be preferable to a single , all-inclusive project . |
| 29 | In 1976 the Layfield Report considered alternative ways of financing local authorities , and concluded that local income tax would be preferable to rates raised on property as a source of income . |
| 30 | 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 . |