Example sentences of "choice [subord] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 2 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 3 | The story continues but the band have no choice but to move into international areas . |
| 4 | Public accountability is particularly important in respect of activities over which the government has a monopoly and in respect of which the citizen has no choice but to deal with the government . |
| 5 | The Reverend John Flory said he had no choice but to call off the ceremonies because couples risked having the roof fall on their heads . |
| 6 | Much as we might like to , we ca n't turn the clock back on these fundamental changes , we have no choice but to proceed with all faith in the new and make it work . |
| 7 | My Lord the er plaintiff 's case is that as a result of the advice that he was given by Mr er it was clear to him that he had no way out of this contract , that he was committed to it and that he had no choice but to proceed with the matter and there was then er further discussion on the telephone on this day , Friday , between Mr and Mr to where they were going here and Mr said he would now write to the plaintiff setting out what his options were to him and the letter than was sent by Mr was dated the twenty second of October and the letter , the relevant terms of this letter are set out in a statement of claim expressing at paragraph three eleven of this statement saying and of course er that is admitted by the er defendant . |
| 8 | If it now emerges that the Department of the Environment was over-generous to any of the water authorities last year , OFWAT has no choice but to live with the consequences . |
| 9 | Candidate Florio and his blonde wife , Lucinda , had no choice but to pose with the property developer from the Jersey waterfront before moving on past three mediocre belly-dancers , a man ( on stilts ) dressed up as Abraham Lincoln and an actor dressed up as Rip Van Winkle . |
| 10 | We have had no choice but to take on board a sexuality which is defined in terms of its difference from the male , and therefore mystified ; which has been derived from biology and based around reproduction . |
| 11 | So all the more thanks for Question Time ( BBC 1 ) , showing simultaneously on the other side , in which Mr Baker had no choice but to sit opposite Arthur Scargill and John Smith , all marshalled impartially by Peter Sissons , controversially and expensively replacing Sir Robin Day . |
| 12 | Nehru and the rest had no choice but to join in the general rejoicing . |
| 13 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 14 | His voice was so bland she really was n't sure if he was joking , but having asked and received an apparently satisfactory reply , she decided she had no choice but to go with him . |
| 15 | " Foolishly , I dined with him to make clear that I would n't see him again and that if he persisted with his unwanted attention I would have no choice but to go to you . |
| 16 | In the same 1975 interview Genet declares that he had no choice but to identify with oppressed blacks since he too was black . |
| 17 | As a rule , financial embarrassment leaves most of us with no choice but to run with the crowd . |
| 18 | Emily might be able to persuade the supplier to call the debt in , just as a favour of course , then Hari would need money at once , she would have no choice but to throw in her lot with Emily . |
| 19 | She had no choice but to stand like a gazelle frozen by the cruel gaze of the lion . |
| 20 | He had manoeuvred her just right , pressing her into the tightest corner , standing squarely in front of her so that she had no choice but to stare into his dark , angry face . |
| 21 | TRACE II has no choice but to start at the beginning and work rightwards , since input directed to feature detectors automatically results in activity at the phonetic and lexical levels through the hard-wired connections . |
| 22 | Once Slovenia and Croatia were granted their independence , Bosnia 's Croat and Muslim leaders , above all the republic 's president , Alija Izetbegovic , had no choice but to apply for recognition . |
| 23 | He had no choice but to work on the land , and to live the life described by Flora Thompson in Lark Rise to Candleford . |
| 24 | In the slightly similar American case of the Moral Majority , evangelicals have no choice but to work in political alliance with secular conservatives , conservative Catholics , and conservative Jews . |