Sentence examples for it is certainly preferable from inspiring English sources

It is certainly preferable to further subdividing the Balkans.

In the long run, this work is a threat to the secular character of Pakistan, but it is certainly preferable to revolutionary violence and upheaval right now.

It is not sufficient to say, as Maurice Chevalier did of old age, that it is certainly preferable to the alternative.

But as recent discussions over Kosovo have shown, while it is certainly preferable to have different groups living side-by-side within single states, there are cases where bringing them together is seemingly impossible.

If sufficient intensive-care specialists are not available, it is certainly preferable to run the ICU at night with nonspecialised physicians who at least belong to the ICU team, instead of calling house-staff physicians who know nothing about this acutely deteriorated patient.

It was certainly preferable to the damn elliptical machine.

But it's certainly preferable to ripping off, say, Travis or Embrace.

Still, it was certainly preferable to one of those by-the-book confessions to which we've become accustomed.

But tough as this feral existence might be, it's certainly preferable to the workhouse, that looming spectre that awaits those no longer capable of fending for themselves.

This may not sound ideal, but it's certainly preferable to sucking all the fish out of the oceans while raising crops of tasteless fish available only to the wealthiest consumers.

The breathlessness can be charming (she uses "Gotham" for New York without any archness), and it's certainly preferable to her more contemporary blends of sex and sociology: one female character is described as a "definitely heterosexual woman at peace with her own estrogen," and Valentino himself, we are told, "helped deflower postwar America".