Sentence examples for but is preferable from inspiring English sources

Taking advice will cost more than an execution-only broker but is preferable to taking out an inadequate policy.

Dominated by a five-note theme that meanders though a miasma of clanging bells and glutinous strings, it overstays its welcome, but is preferable to Raskatov's recomposition of Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, which accompanied it.

"There is a greater consensus that it is no longer ideal to have one campus, but is preferable to have a decentralized operation with two or three central nodes," said M. Myers Mermel, chief executive of TenantWise, a real estate brokerage company in Manhattan.

Effects coding is similar to dummy variable coding, but is preferable in this instance because interaction or trade-off between the attributes is likely to take place as well as a main effect.

This is not mandatory, but is preferable.

Sand-dressed pitches cost more than sand-filled pitches but are preferable for hockey as there is an absence of sand close to the playing surface.

But law is preferable to the alternative, which is arbitrariness.

"Any one will do, but Manhattan is preferable because it's thicker," he said.

That may in itself be hubristic, but it is preferable to what went before.

But corn is preferable to holier-than-thou, and not just in Iowa.

But any is preferable to the implosion of the euro zone.