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We advise anyone travelling to Edinburgh to make alternative arrangements.

There were alternative methods of travel available.

Motorists were advised to find an alternative route.

The state Transportation Commission had ordered a study of alternative solutions to the problem of heavy traffic in the Seattle area.

People still try to find an alternative explanation.

Let me offer you an alternative explanation, Mr. Wheeler.

Your reading for today's class was about potential alternative sources of energy.

These critics have put forth a number of alternative theories, all unproven so far.

Alternative methods of active or passive prey capture have been evolved, including trapping and seizing prey, entangling prey, and sticky tentacles.

Rathje’s hypothesis probably explains part of the complex process of Mayan state formation, but it suffers from the objection that suitable alternative raw materials can be found in the lowlands.

Alternative strategies have evolved in some plants, such as those that produce fewer but larger seeds that are dispersed to suitable sites by birds or small mammals or those that produce long-lived seeds.

Furthermore, most species do not depend entirely on a single resource, if the major resource for a species becomes scarce, the species can usually shift to alternative resources.

If more than one species is competing for a scarce resource, the competing species usually switch to different alternative resources.

Now, what’s especially interesting is that when astronomical observations were made that seemed to be inconsistent with the geocentric view, the ancient Greeks did not really consider alternative theories.

All right, folks, let’s continue our discussion of alternative energy sources and move on to what’s probably the most well-known alternative energy source, uh, solar energy.

And that spurred people to start looking into alternative forms of energy, solar energy probably being the most popular.

Support is growing for the alternative theory that people using watercraft, possibly skin boats, moved southward from Beringia along the Gulf of Alaska and then southward along the Northwest coast of North America possibly as early as 16,000 years ago.

Acupuncture may provide an alternative to painkillers.

Fruit is a healthy alternative to chocolate.

Furthermore, the application of pesticides (the alternative to growing Bt plants) has been demonstrated to cause widespread harm to nontarget insects.

Ok, if you did your reading for today, then you were introduced to a very influential alternative to traditional education.

As this early energy crisis grew worse, Britain looked toward its abundant and widely scattered reserves of coal as an alternative to its vanishing wood.

Now let's look at another theory, uh, an alternative to the hunting theory, the climate change theory.

Storytelling has been proposed as one alternative.

In the Near East they remained in use for more than two and a half millennia, and in certain areas they lasted down to the beginning of the common era until finally yielding, once and for all, to more convenient alternatives.

But given everything we’ve been talking about here, one has to ask: are there alternatives to this motor theory—this claim that muscular activities are equivalent to thinking?

I'm not saying the system is perfect but the alternative is much worse.

It's a huge thing for Mark, leaving his family and friends in secret. But I know he has no alternative.

Despite a distinct feeling of anxiety, he sees no alternative.

When someone has broken their contract with you, there is no alternative but to go to court.

There seems no alternative but to put up with it.

The government has no alternative but to raise taxes.

I’d start looking for alternatives now, just in case.

The Hobbit became a bible for the alternative society.

It's a detachable attachment which may be mounted in either of two alternative positions