Wouldn't you love to live in a world like that?" Not at the price of my intellectual faculties; but, under the circumstances, it seemed preferable to any available alternative.
Not that I stood out: by then, in the late 80s, I was working as a reporter in the House of Commons, and female journalists, like female MPs, were so uncommon, it seemed preferable to be unobserved than leered at by male MPs in the corridors of power which we thought of as the Reeperbahn.
However, due to its high sensitivity (Fig. 1) it seems preferable to keep it as descriptor, in particular since RNAstrand is designed to operate on structured RNAs only.
"Among these it seems preferable to support those that survived, transcended their suffering and continued their remarkable engagement for the transformation of society".
Also, it seems preferable to place all the blame for Lumumba's wrongful arrest on Knox, once again, rather than on the people who actually made the wrongful arrest so quickly and so carelessly.
These days showrooms are filled with wooden headboards, but even with a stash of down pillows to cushion late-night channel surfing, it seems preferable to lean against an upholstered headboard.
The past subjunctive "If this were not so" is perhaps more formal-sounding than the German original, but it seems preferable to the un-idiomatic "else" that some translators choose.
Rather than merely trace the hit-or-miss development of geomorphic ideas from their beginnings roughly two centuries ago, it seems preferable to cite here those conditions firmly determined by intensive research that must serve as constraints for any modern theory of landform evolution.
Indeed, an indebtedness to epic poetry is common both to the writings of Thucydides and to the Attic tragedy of the 5th century (it seems preferable to speak of shared influence of epic poetry on both the writers of tragedy and Thucydides rather than of direct influence of tragedy on Thucydides).
The Loach '45 spirit may be mocked – yet it seems preferable to the 21st-century spirit of austerity and paradox in which we found money to nationalise failing banks, maintaining the spirit of what Milton Friedman called socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
Nonetheless, it seems preferable to validate the determined optimal RD in future studies.
