1.   Although purpose-made units are expensive to buy, ordinary hand-microphones attached to simple booms make an acceptable alternative for amateur use.

2.   Balked of Alfred, she would find Harry Washington a more than acceptable alternative.

3.   Employers have always been able to contract out their workers from the scheme if they offered an acceptable alternative.

4.   In some societies, there are no options, no acceptable alternatives to early Marriage.

5.   Nevertheless, neither the Chronicle nor the Historia Brittonum provides an acceptable alternative to the Bedan chronology.

6.   This would serve as an acceptable alternative.

7.   The objective is to get the students to discuss the arguments as in many cases there are equally acceptable alternatives.

8.   A hyphen is an acceptable alternative to a comma.