Sentence examples for thought to be preferable from inspiring English sources

For this reason, and because of its simpler form, Equation (3) was thought to be preferable when compared with Equation (1).

Written consent was generally thought to be preferable but problematic.

Participants identified that local Childsmile staff should establish links with education departments and individual establishments to encourage participation, although it was thought to be preferable for establishments to participate willingly rather than being coerced.

Although objective measures, such as electronic monitoring caps that record the timing of pill bottle openings, are often thought to be preferable to subjective self-reports, they are costly, often not feasible for certain study designs, and are impractical for clinical practice.

A four-point scale was thought to be relatively straightforward and therefore preferable for the target group.

Coleridge's long-bearded, glittery-eyed sailor is made to wear a dead albatross around his neck, while his ship and its inhabitants are besieged by death — undeniably weighty symbolism, to be sure, but preferable, I think, to being tortured by Catholics in a South American prison.

Spinifex resin is known to have been used as a hafting adhesive for making composite tools such spears and attaching handles to a range of tool and weapons [16] and is thought to have been preferable to Xanthorrhoea for hafting, due to its ability to be re-heated and re-modelled several times without going brittle as Xanthorrhoea does [18].

"We're still trying to reach a three-way agreement, which I think would be preferable to having things blow up or having parties just go off on their own," Mr. Pataki said.

Perhaps he thought it would be preferable to have the incendiary chief inspector inside the (big) tent ranting out.

I assume it's because in some circumstances maybe manual recounts, the legislator thought, would be preferable.

I wanted to believe that I was at fault for my child's delays -- I thought it would be preferable by far to accepting that something was "wrong" with him; that he might have a permanent disability.