Example sentences of "[prep] an alternative to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tape was made collectively , and Siobhan still sees herself as part of an alternative to the mainstream . |
| 2 | Apple Computer Inc , IBM Corp and Novell Inc are reported to have joined forces on development of an alternative to the Microsoft Corp object passing , Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 specification . |
| 3 | Examples of internally generated policy proposals can be seen in the formative thinking on crime prevention , with a strong research base , in the 1970s and 1980s ; the development of an alternative to the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure 's plan for the organization of an independent prosecution service ; proposals for modifying the ‘ right of silence ’ incorporating new safeguards for the defence ; and efforts to improve the situation of ethnic minorities in the criminal justice system . |
| 4 | During these early talks , progress appeared to have been made on Unionist demands ( i ) that the British government should seriously consider the possibility of an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agrement ; ( ii ) that the Anglo-Irish secretariat based near Belfast should be suspended before devolution talks began ; and ( iii ) that the normal summer gap between meetings of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [ see below ] could be defined in advance and used as an opportunity to open formal negotiations . |
| 5 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 6 | The burdens and lack of stability of his social community became unbearable and the poet yearns for an age of permanence and simplicity to provide him with an alternative to the real world . |
| 7 | The conference was also told that as an alternative to the expense of sending officers to university , it was proposed to ‘ direct officers to research a particular problem … and give them a short period to carry out intensive research ’ . |
| 8 | I then wonder why some enterprising manufacturer has n't made a cheap engineer 's lathe as an alternative to the old-fashioned wood lathe . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Mr Hurd loyally reflects the cabinet line on Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) embodied in the treasury 's ‘ competing currencies ’ paper issued on November 2 as an alternative to the Delors report 's Stage II and III — the creation of a single central bank and currency . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Mr Hurd loyally reflects the cabinet line on Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) embodied in the treasury 's ‘ competing currencies ’ paper issued on November 2 as an alternative to the Delors report 's Stage II and III — the creation of a single central bank and currency . |
| 11 | No-one saw him as an alternative to the increasingly-authoritarian left-wing regime of Maurice Bishop in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | They had a few creams , too — aloe-vera gel and wheat-germ oil ; these could be used as an alternative to the more expensive big-brand names . |
| 13 | A great deal of deep and genuine idealism nevertheless dignified the effort to provide quickly an adequate and free form of secondary education , as an alternative to the existing and enlarged grammar-school provision . |
| 14 | It has also co-operated with the further education sector in Northern Ireland to develop BTEC courses at National Diploma level , both as an expansion of existing provision and as an alternative to the Certificate in Foundation Studies offered by the University . |
| 15 | Trimphones were introduced in the 1960s as an alternative to the conventional type of ‘ phone , and now account for almost 6 per cent of all Britain 's telephones . |
| 16 | So , as an alternative to the implantation of alien or artificial hearts , Daedalus is devising a new auxiliary blood-pump . |
| 17 | Acoustic players may well be delighted to know that RotoSound have developed their 80/20 Bronze strings as an alternative to the more commonplace phosphor bronze type . |
| 18 | As the prices of wireless guitar systems drop , more people are turning to them as an alternative to the shackles of the guitar lead . |
| 19 | Employers who supply 10 or more cars to employees for their private use will be able to pay the tax direct to the Contributions Agency as an alternative to the deductions being made on a Pay As You Earn basis by the Inland Revenue . |
| 20 | As an alternative to the premium put structure discussed above , convertible debt may contain an undertaking that the interest will be increased at a date in the future . |
| 21 | Collective security , which had been understood as an alternative to the diplomacy discredited by the catastrophe of 1914 , became increasingly difficult to distinguish from the traditional pursuit of a balance of power in Europe . |
| 22 | Indeed , the whole point of the local sign theory , as an alternative to the ‘ place pure and simple ’ account has been lost on some psychologists . |
| 23 | Why these important barons , in the face of ecclesiastical censure , and as an alternative to the important political alliance with the king of Scotland , should have preferred Harold 's daughter is a mystery . |
| 24 | Yet the firm recovered and continued to grow , generally due to a high level of repeat business and its role as an alternative to the large international search firms in shoot-outs for European-based assignments . |
| 25 | Empirical evidence against my point might arise if there was significant support for the claims now made by some surgeons that a patient after such an accident can both will , and have conscious access to , the process of nerve regrowth ( as an alternative to the sort of superficial retraining of behaviour described above ) . |
| 26 | While this perspective was offered as an alternative to the moral and disease models of child abuse , which tend to dominate ‘ lay ’ and ‘ expert ’ thinking on the subject , it is only one of a number of possible sociological approaches . |
| 27 | The company pitches Acrobat as an alternative to the ubiquitous ASCII — American Standard Code for Information Interchange — file exchange protocol used by most computer operators . |
| 28 | Smaller , attractively priced guest houses are available as an alternative to the hotel . |
| 29 | Initially , they emphasised export strategies as an alternative to the leaders ' investment-based approach . |
| 30 | The Dickens study offered as an alternative to the current system an arbitral system as a way of overcoming the perceived disadvantages of the industrial tribunal system ( Dickens et al. , 1985 , ch. 9 ) . |