Example sentences of "choice but [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effective promotional activity may then leave the retailer with little choice but to stock the brand on a continuous basis . |
| 2 | The Swiss referee , Bruno Galler , had little choice but to call the teams off . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in the wake of last week 's one-point hike in interest rates , Friday 's Daily Mail commented that Mr Lawson had had little choice but to follow the West German increase . |
| 4 | Nolan J. accepted that , as a practical matter , Woolwich had little choice but to make the three payments . |
| 5 | He concluded : ‘ I accept that , as a practical matter , Woolwich had little choice but to make the three payments . ’ |
| 6 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 7 | Forcing a litigant to settle with a judge who had usurped jurisdiction , in order to avoid still higher costs in a superior court , was not likely to have enhanced the popularity of the regality court of Glasgow , and , quite apart from the fact that he was himself injured by Sproull 's actions , Montrose had little choice but to remove the bailie-depute at the first opportunity . |
| 8 | The fact is , there was little choice but to approach the matter as I did — as I am sure you will agree once I have explained the full context of those days . |
| 9 | The absence of alternatives to becoming highly dependent on private companies may leave little choice but to accept the parameters set by the ideology of the firm as a family . |
| 10 | An ordinary individual buying a product from a supplier who had a monopoly in the product had little choice but to accept the terms imposed on him or manage without it . |
| 11 | This increases the significance of the information system to that of a recommender as to what to do based on value and choices but leaves the final decision to the manager . |