Example sentences of "[art] option but [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If people refuse to move ( despite inducements ) the employer may have no option but to dismiss them . |
| 2 | In principle , after 1834 , those who were physically capable of work were left no option but to support themselves . |
| 3 | But as the car sped on , it was still very much on her mind that with her car lifeless , the garage mechanics the only people able to put some life back into it , she 'd had no option but to leave her car back there . |
| 4 | For reasons best known to himself Carr kicked the legs from under Murray , leaving referee Brian White with no option but to order him off . |
| 5 | They had committed themselves to a movement and had no option but to drive it through to its end . |
| 6 | We have no option but to see it as movement from left to right . |
| 7 | He stood by his Department 's actions , and said they had had no option but to do what they did , in the way they did it . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought Flash was dying and had no option but to put her in the car , ’ Shepherd said . |
| 9 | ‘ He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Belatedly aware of the grave situation in which he had foolishly placed himself , Kluck now had no option but to turn his army to face westward to counter Maunoury 's ever-growing threat . |
| 11 | The captain remonstrated , but eventually he had no option but to give it to her . |
| 12 | He took her arm , and short of starting an undignified fight she saw no option but to join him as he strolled towards the white-painted gate , set in the surrounding outer stone walls . |
| 13 | The client is not voluntarily engaging in these proceedings but as he strongly denies the charges he has no option but to defend himself . |
| 14 | He has no option but to change his policies . ’ |
| 15 | The jury foreman confirmed that more time would make no difference , and the judge said he had no option but to dischage them . |
| 16 | In which case she was left with no option but to tell him , a trace arrogantly , it was true , ‘ I do n't wish to discuss it ! ’ |
| 17 | Now with all the forwards around him he has no option but to bang it into touch . |
| 18 | There are also times when there may be no option but to admit someone to hospital for treatment when there is a serious risk that the person will harm him or herself or is becoming physically ill through inadequate nourishment and self-care . |
| 19 | Indeed whereas in Morgan v. Palmer the defendant had no statutory authority to demand a fee and the plaintiff had no option but to pay it in order to obtain the licence , in this case the corporation were fully entitled to levy a toll on the landing of limestone which they were not informed was to be burnt . |
| 20 | With the pitch resembling a motocross track , we had no option but to postpone our home games with Dorning Town and Felton . |
| 21 | But whereas , in the former , the lovers are effete , foppish and ultimately doomed , in They Wouldn't 's Gay Yardie routine , the characters Rupert and Denzel are ‘ two rough-up , ragamuffin characters ’ who exit the stage arm in arm and very much alive , leaving the audience with no option but to confront their own prejudices . |
| 22 | With regard to a description not by reference , the Keeper , in order to make ‘ public and patent to his hienes lieges ’ ( 1617 Act , c 16 ) , is entitled to be provided with a common law description which at a minimum should be the postal address of the property ( eg , ‘ subjects 3 High Street , Ayr ’ ) or , in the case of flatted property , the identification of the particular house ( eg , ‘ the north house on the first flat above the street flat 3 High Street , Ayr ’ ) — and whether or not the Keeper really likes such minimum descriptions he has no option but to accept them ! |
| 23 | But when such practices occur elsewhere in the world , he feels , UK companies might have no option but to accept it and adjust . |
| 24 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 25 | When this was the case , the owner had no option but to accept his loss or institute a court case . |
| 26 | But leaned on in this way , Lord Brabourne and the Broadlands Trust felt they had no option but to accept his advice , and permission to show the Suez film was withheld . |
| 27 | ‘ He will have no option but to meet them , man . |
| 28 | His hand curved around her face , tilting it up , and Jenna had no option but to meet his dark eyes . |
| 29 | ‘ I was left with no option but to help my wife pack seven bags , ’ he tells the Daily Dispatch . |
| 30 | And although Steve Chettle is fit again , Republic of Ireland star Keane stays at centre half for today 's trip to Chelsea with Clough insisting : ‘ I had no option but to play him there . |