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Перевод: preferable

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1. We had wanted two contrasting areas (more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two), and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement.
2. Inside the station "nothing happens" (FN 16/2/87, p. 11), even traffic control outside in the open is preferable to administrative work inside (FN 15/5/87, p. 51).
3. Professor Hugh Miller, also from Aberdeen University and who had advised on the Commission's 1984 paper which questioned the link between acidity and fish losses, wrote that "there is at present no evidence of damage" and "When worried about the health of our trees it would seem preferable to heed qualified forest pathologists rather than respond to assorted ecologists and conservationists, no matter what their nationality."
4. On the other hand, it was clearly preferable to the assumption that to be deprived of a child was punishment for sin.
5. But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory, or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference.
6. He still maintains that non-violence is the nobler way, and that the prevention of the brutalization of human nature is preferable even to the prevention of his own suffering or the suffering of his own people.
7. 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.
8. Serve on a bed of boiled rice (preferable brown rice) and grilled fresh tomatoes.
9. In spite of Virtues's dogma, cleanliness is neither essential nor effective against an established infestation, and gamma-benzene hexachloride or benzyl benzoate are preferable and more effective than either carbolic acid or tobacco.
10. In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.
11. A local authority may therefore find it preferable in the case of transient odours to serve a prohibition notice under s.1 of the Public Health (Recurring Nuisances) Act 1969.
12. For example: "May I have an appointment with Mr Block at 4 p.m. on Monday next for a short back and sides?" is preferable to: "I want an appointment please," which leads to a string of questions, "Which day?"
13. This is often because they have such fear for the future, for some reason of their own, that death seems preferable.