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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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It is always preferable to have the rig nearer the wave rather than viceversa.
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For lots of blooms, full sun is always preferable , but echinacea will take half sun and half shade.
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A limited contract for a few sessions, at least in the first instance, is always preferable .
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Here Mr Kinnock should set out clearly why, in the Gorbachev era, negotiated rather than unilateral disarmament is almost always preferable .
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Nevertheless, many people still cling to the vinyl disk as preferable .
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In fact, too few words are far preferable to too many.
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Jackson, who opposes the welfare overhaul, says Clinton is far preferable to Dole.
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Discomfort in the open air was far preferable to him.
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From upwards its tone becomes thin and rather unsatisfactory, the flute being far preferable at that altitude.
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However, it is far preferable for companies to utilise the professional services of a company such as Rentokil Tropical Plants.
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In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.
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As a class, professional golfers are swell well-scrubbed chaps and chaplets, infinitely preferable to professional wrestlers or professional loan sharks.
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It was fantastic and, I must confess, infinitely preferable to staying on my feet for two hours.
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However good they might be as students, their families feel that marriage is infinitely preferable to a college career.
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As exorcisms go, it was infinitely preferable to hurling verbal stakes at a callow Cambridge offspinner.
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But he argues that rule-making is none the less a useful device, and that it is often preferable to direct action.
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They argue it is often preferable to the alternatives: batons and revolvers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As far as I'm concerned anything would be preferable to staying here alone.
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So we're agreed. Our preferable course of action is to do nothing until the report is published.
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The most preferable arrangement would be for us to pay very low interest over a long period of time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A limited contract for a few sessions, at least in the first instance, is always preferable .
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After a while, deciding that discretion was preferable , they moved off some distance into the desert parallel to the road.
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At that point, even a 3, 000-mile plane ride home into relentless headwinds almost seemed preferable to Vancouver.
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But how can we decide which analysis is preferable ?
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Even to some one as straight as myself, the bearded gentleman is preferable to Anneka Rice or Judith Chalmers.
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I found this vaguely reassuring; a short, sharp death seemed preferable to a long, slow chewing underwater.
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It must be preferable that the original action proceed rather than being convoluted into a negligence action.
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Nevertheless, many people still cling to the vinyl disk as preferable .