Example sentences of "they have [art] choice " in BNC.

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1 So even if they have n't much money , they 've no choice but to buy .
2 What do you mean they 've no choice ?
3 But the men gave way , because they had no choice , and the next minute the car had bounced out on to the road , turning left , away from the village and up towards the dale head .
4 But Britain being Britain , where the licensing laws are as restrictive as ever , they had no choice .
5 Marian knew they had no choice but to make cautiously towards it .
6 They had no choice ; their economy had very little room for manoeuvre , the German threat meant heavy military investment at the cost of social and industrial improvement ; yet any halt in the country 's ability to trade was tied directly to the continued life of the government , the existence of the state and the possibility of a military solution to all its problems .
7 They had no choice in the matter , unlike Diana who has only herself to blame for turning down the Queen 's invitation to join the other Royals .
8 In a way they had no choice — but I have chosen to stay a virgin and that is important to me . ’
9 Or maybe they had no choice .
10 Many Masai resisted this tax , but they had no choice .
11 Her statistics showed that 50 per cent of this group were carers and that 80 per cent of those said they had no choice in becoming carers .
12 Consider three facts , arbitrarily chosen — half of all carers are over 65 ; 80 per cent of carers say they had no choice but to become carers ; and for one person in a hundred residential care is vital .
13 And because we were sitting in a bar in central Africa , and there was nowhere else they could go to buy a drink , they had no choice but to sit and listen .
14 Neither of them was young , and the thought of going to a place where everything including the language was different — apart from Slovene and German they spoke only Triestino — cast a deep gloom over them ; but they had no choice .
15 Wycliffe and Tony would have preferred to linger , to digest the experience , but they had no choice .
16 They feel they have no choice but to migrate , just as their fathers felt they had no choice but to migrate .
17 Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks .
18 Yet most of the key figures in government concluded that they had no choice but to try to work even more closely with the United States , whatever their feelings on the subject of Suez .
19 They had no choice .
20 They did not contest that they participated in the crime ring , but said they had no choice because of pressure from Chinese secret societies .
21 If they were good they had a choice : share a banana split , or a trip to the pet shop to watch the gerbils screw .
22 People were realizing that they had a choice .
23 They had a choice of alleys .
24 The Minister said that British consumers would not want to buy inhumanely produced veal if they had the choice .
25 They had the choice of doing it erm this afternoon
26 It is also seen as a way in to paid CAB work for black workers who might not normally be economically able to volunteer but through circumstances beyond their control find that they have no choice .
27 ‘ [ W ] e must ensure that those who live in derelict inner-city areas are not people who are there because they have no choice and who would leave the moment they were given an alternative . ’
28 They have no choice but to accept the position .
29 They have no choice when requiring emergency care .
30 They have no choice , of course .
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