Example sentences of "[art] alternative to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marxist position on the alternative to bureaucracy under socialism , in so far as it is ever made explicit , is still largely based on the lessons derived from the Paris Commune and from Trotsky 's critique of Stalinism . |
| 2 | There may be no alternative to leave of absence , even though the nurse can ill afford the loss of income . |
| 3 | Then there will be no alternative to mud in either rural or urban areas . |
| 4 | There was no alternative to capitalism as a method of economic development , and at this period this implied both the realisation of the economic and institutional programme of the liberal bourgeoisie ( with local variations ) , and the crucial position in the state of that bourgeoisie itself . |
| 5 | When they were introduced they offered an alternative to insulin for the patient not responding to diet alone . |
| 6 | The internal market is also used in the private sector as an alternative to hierarchy as a mode of internal coordination within the firm . |
| 7 | Endoscopic sclerotherapy as an alternative form of treatment for bleeding varices was first reported in 1939 in a young patient with extrahepatic portal vein occlusion and was eventually popularised as an alternative to surgery by the work of Johnston and Rodgers . |
| 8 | Endoscopic biliary drainage using large plastic stents , is an alternative to surgery in the management of these patients , and can rapidly resolve cholestasis , jaundice , and cholangitis . |
| 9 | This had the effect of giving the BBC an effective monopoly as advertising revenue could best be maximized by providing an alternative to sport on independent television . |
| 10 | These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | Realist approaches ( see Sayer , 1984 ) have been used to provide an alternative to positivism on the one hand and historicism on the other . |
| 12 | It has gained a reputation for controlling pain and in China is extensively used as an alternative to anaesthesia in surgery . |
| 13 | As an alternative to payment under Deed of Covenant , Tradeco could make payments under the Gift Aid provisions of the Taxes Act . |
| 14 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 15 | Oh no , it would n't , I would n't think of it as an alternative to interaction with other people . |
| 16 | An alternative to water in sprays is needed in the tropics where water is often very difficult to obtain or transport to the field ; it evaporates so rapidly that the effectiveness of sprays is further reduced . |
| 17 | Many companies feel that the appointment of a good overseas agent is an alternative to involvement in the market themselves . |
| 18 | Advertising then moved on to emphasising the safety element of nablabs ( as an alternative to alcohol for drivers ) , effectively saying to consumers ‘ when you ca n't have a proper drink , have this instead ’ . |
| 19 | It is a scheme that is er , an alternative to placement in children 's homes , for adolescents with severe behavioral and emotional difficulties , erm , whereby er , specialist er , foster parents er , are , are , recruited , they are extensively trained , and er , have the willingness to take on what are difficult and challenging youngsters and er , who are placed with them . |
| 20 | Maurice Cowling has suggested that Law 's resignation was tactical , that he could not face reconciling his party to the coming Irish negotiations , and that he was giving up office so as to be available as an alternative to coalition in the future ; in Gaullist terms he was becoming a Prime Minister " in the reserve of the republic " . |
| 21 | Atlanta DA , Lewis Slaton , said that this was an alternative to prosecution for young , non-violent first-time offenders . |
| 22 | A recent innovation has been to allow the investigation committee to give members who are the subject of a complaint an opportunity to accept a judgment ( and appropriate penalty ) against them as an alternative to prosecution before the disciplinary committee . |
| 23 | The high diagnostic efficiency of cGMP , its stability , and the possibility of direct cGMP determination in plasma samples lead us to conclude that in patients with heart failure measurement of cGMP is an alternative to measurement of natriuretic peptides for routine clinical laboratory medicine . |
| 24 | Indeed in its 1964 election campaign this had been merged with Labour 's ambitious promises to develop a multiracial Commonwealth as an alternative to membership of the EEC . |
| 25 | A major argument put forward by the Home Office was that the proposed tougher community punishments would be an alternative to custody for persistent petty offenders . |
| 26 | Indeed , they may provide an alternative to timber in justifying the economic sense of allowing forests to stay put , because without such a reason they will be chopped down . |
| 27 | It was much used in Germany and Denmark as an alternative to mustard during the Middle Ages . |