Example sentences of "was [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But pebble-picking was preferable to other jobs . |
| 2 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |
| 3 | When at last he dared to creep from his hiding-place and move on tip-toe up the dark stairs , he had counted to 372 and managed to convince himself that any fate was preferable to having an accident down there amongst the coats . |
| 4 | Again , she did not sleep and for once was glad when Mr Landor called out , cursing the heat and wanting cold , cold water at once — even seeing to the old man 's wants was preferable to lying awake worrying . |
| 5 | What NIREX faced was a complete lack of credibility : the public mood was one in which almost anything was preferable to a nuclear dump in their backyard , however low the radioactivity . |
| 6 | Anyway , having a pint was preferable to walking around the streets on a cold night such as this . |
| 7 | Knowing that other girls would laugh at her , Ann decided that being notorious was preferable to being ridiculous . |
| 8 | In an industry dominated by much larger producers who were able to benefit from economies of scale , the government therefore concluded that the sale to Ford was preferable to continued state subsidy and/or ever closer links with Honda . |
| 9 | Although it was not entirely to his liking , politically it was preferable to a free trade area where Britain would play a leading role . |
| 10 | Severe criticism of these ideas did little to detract from the belief that even a sickly press was preferable to the Soviet and authoritarian theories outlined by Siebert et al . |
| 11 | But it was preferable to Orange . |
| 12 | The European study asked a slightly different question : whether or not a policy of immediate angioplasty was preferable to a non-invasive strategy ? " 367 patients with acute MI were treated with rt-PA thrombolytic therapy ( Table 3 ) . |
| 13 | Confinement in her room was preferable to a great deal else . |
| 14 | Even loveless comfort was preferable to what she had . |
| 15 | His towering anger was preferable to this . |
| 16 | Even some ILEA officials agreed that abolition was preferable to attrition . |
| 17 | There was n't much on the box , but that night it was preferable to conversation . |
| 18 | The lonely dark was preferable to staying to be taunted . |
| 19 | She finally admitted to herself that even the risk of another snub was preferable to her growing anxiety about what lay ahead . |
| 20 | It was preferable to admitting she was again feeling nervous . |
| 21 | Well , potency was preferable to impotence . |
| 22 | A few days earlier , Mussolini had told him that , in his view , Spanish non-belligerency was preferable to Spanish intervention . |
| 23 | I took up my position near Dod as it was preferable to having my ear down the muzzle of Chase 's tuba and Martin was told to hang over the back of the truck as best he could . |
| 24 | If the government had executed the plans it came up with in 1856 , peasants would have been justified in thinking that the devil of serfdom was preferable to the deep blue sea of reform . |
| 25 | The force of this argument was recognised to some extent by the OFT , who went on to state that a limit on each claim was preferable to an overall limit , providing the extent of the former was made clear to clients . |
| 26 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 27 | Tolkien was alert to all such echoes and did his best to eradicate them . |
| 28 | The Glasgow tribunal was alert to the problem of company rules attempting to oust the yardstick of reasonableness in Unkles v Milanda Bread Co , 1973 IRLR 76 . |
| 29 | The insecurity I felt was due to my lack of true religion , and was like the small change of the exalted pessimism of our faith , the pessimism that can drive men on to do wonders . |
| 30 | ( Others have said that his death was due to his homosexuality . |