Example sentences of "an alternative " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their culture has no rights , no claim to an alternative identity . |
| 2 | Had Handsome Henry tried to foreclose — or , seeing how pretty Mrs Yardley was , had he suggested an alternative form of payment ? |
| 3 | An alternative use for peat alternative My mum buys your magazine , and I read about Geoff Hamilton 's cocopeat trials . |
| 4 | This is the absolute minimum , and whenever possible much more room should be left , or an alternative landing area should be chosen . |
| 5 | Rather an alternative and extra dimension to the observation is required if the deep structures and meaning inherent in any arbitrarily constructed social world are to be understood . |
| 6 | These were amplified by a variety of non-verbal sign-systems such as gesture , posture , music , clothing , gender relationships , as well as other aspects of the hippie life related to an alternative political and social belief which were alien to our experience . |
| 7 | For example , they would link their cannabis use and an alternative ideology or religious vision to challenge our somewhat static version of social reality . |
| 8 | Head 's Fair Lady court shoe is an alternative prize for female winners . |
| 9 | An alternative exercise is wide press-ups with the hands on house bricks ( these will allow a greater stretch ) . |
| 10 | An alternative exercise is the one-legged squat . |
| 11 | However a DSS Press Release states that the Government has accepted the recommendation of the Social Security Advisory Committee to adopt an alternative approach whereby the circumstances under which unlimited arrears can apply is more explicitly defined . |
| 12 | Allan Megill has pointed out that an alternative ‘ meaning ’ of the phrase is , ‘ there is no inserted plate ’ ( a French dictionary defines ‘ hors-texte ’ as ‘ Gravure , planche tirée á part et intercalée dans un livre ’ ) . |
| 13 | One can invoke , too , Ricks 's insistence that the language of the agenda sets the terms of the debate : to speak of ‘ principles ’ and ‘ faith ’ is to offer an alternative discourse to the invocation of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 14 | All it needs is to promise a high-powered investigation , such as a Royal Commission , into the practicalities of an alternative voting system ( surely justified by the intense public interest now abounding ) . |
| 15 | Wilson 's task was to project his party as an alternative government and associate Labour with the agenda of the 1960s . |
| 16 | ‘ Our proposals would offer them an alternative market for capital . ’ |
| 17 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 18 | ‘ If one of my patients wants to give up a potentially curative treatment in favour of an alternative therapy , then I will try to dissuade them . |
| 19 | They will only be challenged if ‘ it can be shown that the proposed referral is wholly unjustified on clinical grounds , or where an alternative referral would be equally efficacious , taking into account the patient 's wishes ’ . |
| 20 | Or , in the case of the GMB general workers ' union , backing an alternative federal grouping of ethnic minority organisations . |
| 21 | Discarded by England for their tour of the West Indies , Botham has launched an alternative and considerably more lucrative winter career , a grandly titled ‘ Lecture Tour ’ of Britain . |
| 22 | The South may withdraw their grand prix meeting from the ITV deal , and team it with the rejected meetings as an alternative package for ITV 's rivals . |
| 23 | The Democrats have been calling Mr Bush 's aid plan ‘ grossly inadequate ’ and have been determined to produce an alternative that would increase the aid to the eastern European countries . |
| 24 | THE ‘ HORRENDOUS ’ cost of tunnelling in south London has driven Cecil Parkinson , the Secretary of State for Transport , to consider seriously an alternative route for the high-speed rail link to the Channel tunnel . |
| 25 | Mr Parkinson is coming under heavy pressure from competing private consortia to approve an alternative route to a new terminus at Stratford in east London , which they say would be cheaper than the British Rail scheme to Waterloo and King 's Cross . |
| 26 | As a complement to a career based on forgetting the past , the play sketches out an alternative one based on remembering . |
| 27 | Under this pressure , all ordinary human ambivalence and doubt is outlawed : adopters become guilty or angry when the relationship does not proceed according to the fantasy or reality of ordinary parenting ; children suppress their fantasies of an alternative life with birth parents — or hold on to that fantasy all the more tenaciously — and birth mothers , in particular , are pushed into a denial of their own experience and feelings . |
| 28 | For the purposes of the Conservative Party conference , it was enough that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer denied the existence of an alternative economic strategy . |
| 29 | Hence the longing for an alternative policy , and the determined claims that one does not exist . |
| 30 | He is the only major figure offering an alternative party programme which is not a watered-down version of Mrs Thatcher 's . |