The phrase "a certain preferred" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a specific preference, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "There is a certain preferred method for completing the task, but it is not mandatory."
Alternatives: "a specific preference" or "a particular choice".
In September, the Post reported that White House press aides often drive media coverage in a certain, preferred direction by making changes to press pool reports before they are distributed to other journalists.
When examining the receptive fields of rabbit ganglion cells, investigators found some that gave a maximal response when a moving spot of light passed in a certain "preferred" direction, while they gave no response at all when the spot passed in the opposite direction; in fact, the spontaneous activity of the cell was usually inhibited by this movement in the "null" direction.
More generally, each term in state of the universe, as represented in a certain preferred basis, reflects the states of its systems in some class of worlds; where the range of the different classes of worlds increases whenever the number of the terms in the quantum state (in the preferred basis) increases (this process is called 'splitting'splitting
The authors found that applying a TMS pulse to occipital cortex at a certain preferred alpha phase increases the likelihood of perceiving phosphenes by 15% relative to the opposite phase.
This suggests that while the complete toxins cover a wide length range there are certain preferred lengths.
Treating stemness no longer as a fixed property, these concepts do not exclude certain preferred trends in the differentiation sequence, but allow reversible developments for individual cells.
"The question is whether speech that goes to the very heart of government should be limited to certain preferred corporations; namely, media corporations," he said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative group.
Instead of admitting the best and brightest, elite colleges stick to an arcane blueprint which is drawn with bold lines favoring certain preferred groups.
By feeding its algorithms certain preferred sources and topics, you can give it an idea of what kinds of posts you'd like to see go up on your streams.
TiN coatings deposited by various physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes often exhibit certain preferred orientations, which are heavily affected by process parameters.
"He worked in the pharmacy, selling moonshine to certain preferred customers," Mr. Guthrie says, "and he offered to paint the sign".
