11.   He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen.

12.   The only alternative would be an instrument from another family, possibly a sackbut, which seems an unlikely alternative within a pastoral ensemble.

13.   The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour, Liberal and Conservative Parties.

14.   And yet the only alternative was to sacrifice Kirsty.

15.   The only other alternative would be to ask her father to collect her from the party, and, at twenty, that would be too embarrassing for words!

16.   The Chairman says the only alternative to new backing is selling players.

17.   It is going to be difficult and expensive, but the only alternative is to abandon millions of people to an even worse fate.

18.   The threat of deflation as the only alternative to incomes policy is also more powerful when supported by a taste of the deflationary medicine.

19.   An outright sale of the division is not the only alternative, he added.

20.   And since the only alternative to plan and party was the market and democracy, they took that route, of course with Western advice and financial aid.