Sentence examples for generally preferred not from inspiring English sources

"And we generally preferred not to know.

Anyone with a contact in another country generally preferred not to advertise it.

Boulton generally preferred not to take on lengthy projects, and he warned Cook that its completion might take years.

Parents of children with highly complex needs are used to eligibility criteria of services and resources based on pre-determined levels of need and disability, so perhaps rather wisely, parents were wary and weary of filling in forms and generally preferred not to write things down or complete the booklets.

Galleries generally prefer not to discuss attacks on artworks for fear of provoking more of them.

"Brits generally prefer not to wear something on their face because it's not very comfortable or fashionable," she says.

People generally prefer not to think more than necessary, and they tend to prefer objects, people, products, and words that are simple to pronounce and understand.

I am not a pediatrician, and my own teenage children are at the age where they generally prefer not to speak with me.

It is something we might rather have than not, since people generally prefer not being in abject poverty, but wealth does not make a fundamental contribution to human happiness.

Beds are Burning is a brisk dispatch from geographical and moral places that Australians generally prefer not to visit – the immense emptiness of our outback, and the grim post-1788 histofy of Australia's Indigenous people.

Foul though they sound, the yucky things that we generally prefer not to see, smell or touch are the subjects of an intriguing exhibition "Dirt: the Filthy Reality of Everyday Life" at the Wellcome Collection in London.