preferable

Infinitive complement

• avoid: Completion is even more preferable to avoid any argument with the Inland Revenue.
• obtain: Where the R&E method is appropriate, it is preferable to obtain full accounts for at least three full years leading up to AVD.
• use: In such cases it is preferable to use a double quoted text string.
• keep: It is preferable to keep the guns in their slips or cases.
• start: Therefore it is preferable to start planting up with conifers in autumn followed by other surrounding plants during the following season.
• have: It would be preferable to have 3 adults in the crèche.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: On side effects alone this would seem preferable to normal external beam treatment.
• appear: Their circumstances are such that, in practice, death appears preferable to more life.
• consider: Paragraph 3.5 states that, " ... single rooms would normally be considered preferable to shared rooms.

Modifying Another Word

• infinitely: A visit to your local Habitat is infinitely preferable to shopping online.
• environmentally: Identifying environmentally preferable products that meet basic quality specifications.
• morally: That seems to me to be morally preferable than throwing away embryos that you can't use in an IVF program.
• far: A gentle let down is far preferable to being ignored.
• obviously: This is obviously preferable to you having to take the initiative to ask them!

Modifies a noun

• alternative: No small number are now leaving for these jobs as preferable alternatives.
• option: Making no order must be the least preferable option.
• solution: The preferable solution is to ensure that the route is clear on the ground.
• choice: The preferable choice would be to use local resources wherever possible.
• method: The user has the option to choose the most preferable method of pain relief at anyone time.