Example sentences of "option [adj] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet nearby landowners had little option other than to tolerate the threat to law and order which the existence of open villages implied because the closed parishes to some extent relied upon the open ones to provide a pool of reserve labour which could be used during periods of peak demand like harvest , but which would not at other times become a charge on the poor rate . |
| 2 | In order to ensure the quality of our service , and to avoid undue pressure on their colleagues , we have no option other than to dismiss these people . |
| 3 | When victimization followed the settlement — with union members left homeless by tied cottage evictions as well as without a job — the union had no option other than to take this treatment lying down . |
| 4 | Those who could not contain their resentment had little option other than to emigrate . |
| 5 | In fact , competition has been reduced , prices have rocketed , thousands of public house tenants have been forced out of the trade and thousands more have felt that they have no reasonable option other than to accept the terms being imposed upon them by the brewers and accept long leases at enormously increased rents , with full responsibility for repairs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 8 | They therefore faced no option other than to make a go of the business . |
| 9 | One such article , written by the General Secretary , was ordered to be printed and the editor had no option other than to deliver it to the printers . |