Example sentences of "alternative [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lennox-Boyd then laid down that independence would only be granted if wanted by ‘ a substantial majority of the people ’ ; if Bourne 's proposals were accepted by NLM as well as CPP then they could go ahead : ‘ If he failed then there appeared to be no alternative but to call a general election ’ ( p.245 ) . |
| 2 | If they are the only witness to deal with a vital issue then you will have no alternative but to call them . |
| 3 | Do you wake up regularly to a deafening snore and feel there is no alternative but to give your partner a hefty prod ? |
| 4 | A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse . |
| 5 | The taxpayer , however , contended that , on a literal reading , its meaning was clear and unambiguous and accordingly there was no alternative but to give effect to the express statutory language . |
| 6 | For this reason some women have no alternative but to give up one or more of these roles following the birth of their child . |
| 7 | I had no alternative but to consult M. Chaillot . |
| 8 | The force of this logic outweighs even the absence of the automatic laundry , yet I have no alternative but to duplicate arguments or double-bank my defences . |
| 9 | They do pose difficulties in dressing , however , and in some instances there is no alternative but to hang draw curtains from a track or rod placed above the arch . |
| 10 | They had no alternative but to take the cause of all the drama to hospital , forty miles away in Bulawayo . |
| 11 | ‘ We have been left with no alternative but to take action through the courts to defend the Legal Aid Scheme . |
| 12 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |
| 13 | ‘ I had no alternative but to go over . |
| 14 | But being unqualified for anything more taxing than preparing meals and cleaning rooms , it seemed I might have no alternative but to go into service . |
| 15 | The zip had become stuck , his musical cue came and he had no alternative but to go back on stage , in a routine that included some big kicks . |
| 16 | The Church is then left with no alternative but to see salvation in Earthly terms since it has abandoned faith in a collective spiritual kingdom and relies on a shaky humanist spirituality . |
| 17 | In our own project we have seen no alternative but to see local people as part of the working-class , exploited more than many of their fellows elsewhere by their social , economic and cultural environment in the centre of a large city , whose economy is shaky and uncertain in Britain 's present stage of development . |
| 18 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 19 | A rigid leg has no alternative but to snap ; a bent leg , having give in it , can at least straighten upon the impact of an aggressor 's kick . |
| 20 | The girl called Maggie had no alternative but to sit in a chair close to Eileen . |
| 21 | If they are held in overcrowded conditions , unfit for a dog to live in , and have no meaningful occupation — I do not mean soulless , non-productive work — they have no alternative but to fall into mischief and cause trouble . |
| 22 | To complete the analogy , it 's as if the RFU is a lumbering forward giving a hospital pass that leaves Best no room to sidestep , no alternative but to put his head down and put his trust in the tried and tested battering ram technique . |
| 23 | All of which , unfortunately , meant that she had no alternative but to put her own personal feelings to one side . |
| 24 | In Macarthys Ltd. v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) , however , he indicated that Parliament retained the power to pass legislation inconsistent with the Treaty of Rome and our obligations under community law , indicating that if this was done intentionally , our courts would have no alternative but to uphold the supremacy of our own domestic law . |
| 25 | He decided that he had no alternative but to flee abroad . |
| 26 | There may be a significant fall in volume in the first year or so , but while the third party suppliers to Technology may feel that they have no alternative but to withdraw their products , they look like being the net losers as a result , while ICL sheds crocodile tears all the way to the bank . |
| 27 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 28 | ‘ It may damage my buses and I would have no alternative but to withdraw the service . ’ |
| 29 | For while there are many for whom the decimation of Baghdad is guided by a fine and noble and sense of justice , many others find themselves with effectively no alternative but to support ‘ our government ’ / ‘ our boys ’ / ‘ freedom ’ or whatever other option is put before them , in spite of their doubts about the validity of the whole bloody exercise . |
| 30 | During the meeting Yassir Arafat , the PLO chair , stressed that the PLO had had no alternative but to support Iraq during the Gulf war . |