The phrase "a result of preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing outcomes or decisions that stem from individual or collective choices or inclinations.
Example: "The final design was chosen as a result of preference among the team members."
Alternatives: "due to personal choice" or "as a consequence of selection".
The AEC confirmed that Muir had taken the sixth spot in the Victorian Senate race as a result of preference flows from other micro parties.
Incoming premier Daniel Andrews will have only himself to blame if he finds himself working with a chaotic parliament as a result of preference deals, the Greens' Ellen Sandell said following her historic election victory in Melbourne.
There are indications that sex-ratio imbalance has grown in many South Asian, Central Asian, and East Asian countries in the recent decades as a result of preference for the male child and sex selection (26).
There are indeed costs at the individual level, borne by those whites who may not have gained places or jobs as a result of preferences for minorities.
Biases in the partner database could have occurred as a result of preferences by certain type of institutions in joining the Alliance HPSR and in answering the questionnaire required from partners.
As a result of eye preference, rivalry perception is biased towards the stimulus presented to the preferred eye [16], [17], e.g., the percept sequence tends to begin with this stimulus, and this stimulus tends to have a longer percept duration.
The black bib of the male house sparrow, for instance, is a result of female preference for males having that feature.
After Augustus' death Roman historians claimed that Agrippa's sojourn at Mytilene was a kind of exile as a result of Augustus' preference for his own nephew Marcellus.
The calculations provided an additional argument that the hydrophobic self-assembling of hydrocarbons is mainly a result of the preference of the water molecules to interact among themselves via hydrogen bonding than a result of the interactions between hydrocarbon molecules.
For just six of the 36 verbs, the rise of one form over another was clearly not only down to chance, but was largely a result of active preference – akin to natural selection.
And also, sometimes the long periods are a result of patient preference.
