Example sentences of "[noun sg] but to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dewey 's response to such criticism , I suspect , would have been that he was certainly not naive about the nature of those forces but that , if there is to be hope for humanity , there is no alternative but to be optimistic . |
| 2 | Even to maintain his ratings at their present level — with 22 per cent in one poll choosing him as their preferred Prime Minister in a field that included Mrs Thatcher — he has no choice but to be constantly audible and visible . |
| 3 | My application to join the RCAF was refused with thanks , and I had no choice but to be content with that ruling . |
| 4 | Quine says of this theory that ‘ one has no choice but to be an empiricist so far as one 's theory of linguistic meaning is concerned ’ ( Quine , 1969 , p. 81 ) . |
| 5 | Surely one has no choice but to be an empiricist as far as one 's theory of linguistic meaning is concerned ’ ( Quine , 1969 , p. 81 ) . |
| 6 | After all , if he was n't going to take a hint , she simply had no choice but to be blunt . |
| 7 | Education performs political , social , as well as economic functions and it is thus too important to be made the slave to the needs of the economy even though it has no option but to be its servant . |
| 8 | It left her with a great admiration for the contemplatives , even if God still has to forcibly take her by the scruff of the neck and put tier in a position where she has no option but to be still on occasion . |