Example sentences of "provide a [adj] alternative to " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the Six believed that the OEEC provided a meaningful alternative to the proposals discussed at Messina . |
| 2 | These schools now provided a free alternative to expensive private education — so that the number of middle-class children in them rose . |
| 3 | The plastic pipes , strengthened on the outside by thin bands of steel , provide a cheaper alternative to concrete pipes used as flood drains , sewers and irrigation canals . |
| 4 | Marxist perspectives provide a radical alternative to functionalist views of the nature of social stratification . |
| 5 | Former Prime Minister Maitrika Prasad Koirala announced on Feb. 19 the formation of a new political party , Rashtriya Janata Parishad , under his chairmanship , which would work to provide a democratic alternative to the Nepali Congress Party . |
| 6 | A growing interest has been shown by manufacturers recently in broadening the range of freeze-dried foods to provide a useful alternative to frozen foods . |
| 7 | In the county of Kent , for example , in 1938 the expenditure per pupil in central schools ( in effect , senior elementary schools attempting to provide a serious alternative to the grammar schools ) was only one-half of that for each grammar-school pupil . |
| 8 | Preparatory schools proliferated to replace tuition at home and to provide a middle-class alternative to the Board Schools following compulsory education in 1870 . |
| 9 | Moreover , Europe was still recovering from wartime devastation , and had achieved neither political coherence nor a sound enough military/ industrial base to provide a viable alternative to the North American connection . |
| 10 | ROAD sought to provide a credible alternative to the Solidarity Centre Alliance political grouping , which had been established in May [ ibid. ] and advocated that the Solidarity trade union chairman Lech Walesa should be appointed by parliament as President . |
| 11 | Mr. Williams should provide a real alternative to Belville . |
| 12 | The advertisement was particularly ironic , inasmuch as in the nineteenth century the public library movement was undoubtedly supported by many reformers in the expectation that libraries would provide a healthy alternative to drunkenness among the working class . |
| 13 | In the future , computerised spatial mapping of the distribution of frequencies in the manner now being used for electroencephalographic mapping of epileptic foci may provide a non-invasive alternative to multiple implanted electrodes to help distinguish between the above explanations . |
| 14 | Lord Sterling , P&O chairman , said : ‘ In management terms time is extremely short if we are to effect the changes necessary for the task of providing a viable alternative to the tunnel . ’ |
| 15 | For the ‘ Third World ’ was invented in the context of the 1955 Bandung Conference , on the model of the French Revolution 's ‘ Third Estate ’ , and incorporating equally revolutionary ideals of providing a radical alternative to the hegemonic capitalist-socialist power blocks of the post-war period . |
| 16 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 17 | ( d ) A unitary system of re-identifiable particulars Clearly the above theory does not come anywhere near providing a plausible alternative to Leibniz 's model . |
| 18 | Natural gas provides a viable alternative to petrol and diesel , offering a large cost saving per gallon . |
| 19 | Plasticine is an old favourite and together with dough provides a useful alternative to clay . |