Example sentences of "[pers pn] have little option " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 2 | She had little option but to do so , nor do I think she was particularly amused . ’ |
| 3 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 4 | For example , in North Wales , Derbyshire and the main part-time farming areas ( North Yorkshire , Wester Ross and Orkney ) , the number who were confident in all stock tasks was fairly high , no doubt because they had little option but to tackle stock work . |
| 5 | According to Mrs Jones they had little option in the circumstances but to allow her decision a ‘ chance to fail ’ . |
| 6 | It is more remarkable that the religious houses survived so well than that they were faced with economic problems , and if they were sometimes regarded as grasping landlords , they had little option to be anything else . |
| 7 | Short-term contracts , performance review and performance-related pay for managers meant that they had little option in accepting finance driven agendas ( Harrison et al. |
| 8 | If you have failed to brief them properly then they have little option but to either put it on hold or send it back as it came out and let you sort it out . |
| 9 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |