Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as a alternative " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decentralisation is thus seen as an alternative to the bureaucratic practices that we investigated in the previous chapter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Also consider as an alternative requesting building defects insurance ( premiums to be paid for by the landlord ) such as ten year latent defects insurance — but if not available , or in addition to such deeds etc , the tenant should consider including the clause suggested at clause 2.14 . |
| 4 | It has gained a reputation for controlling pain and in China is extensively used as an alternative to anaesthesia in surgery . |
| 5 | We also offered as an alternative to refer the question of compensation to an arbiter and to pay whatever he decided . |
| 6 | Pyrolysis — the imposition of high temperatures upon material in the absence of oxygen — is often presented as an alternative to incineration . |
| 7 | A general degree is sometimes seen as an alternative for students who are not up to honours standard ; this is largely though not entirely the case with the Scottish ordinary degree . |
| 8 | Goat 's milk , which is sometimes used as an alternative to cow 's , is low in folic acid , an important vitamin necessary for proper blood formation , and his vitamin should be added if you use goat 's milk . |
| 9 | The term ‘ off-shore ’ is sometimes used as an alternative , but as this has a meaning in other contexts the term Eurocurrency is the one which has generally stuck and most Eurocurrency transactions continue to be in Europe . |
| 10 | What is then proposed as an alternative to this conception is a recognition of the existence of conflicting interest groups , some of which have a much greater capacity to pursue their interests successfully , and of the need for widespread political debate about the allocation of social resources and benefits among these groups , or in a broad sense , about justice and the meaning of a ‘ good society ’ . |
| 11 | Nowadays , especially in Spain , Basque is being defiantly flaunted as an alternative to the national language ; but in France it is at risk , spoken at home by Basque families but discouraged in schools , as a lesser , marginal language likely to hold its speakers back economically . |
| 12 | Although Bagnold ( 1941 ) suggested that wind blown sands , which deviated from log-normality , might have some other probability function , it was not until recently that his suggested log-hyperbolic distribution has been closely examined as an alternative ( Barndorff-Nielsen , 1977 ; Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Wyrwoll & smyth , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Purchase and resale agreements are occasionally used as an alternative to outright purchases . |