If payment is not received, legal action will be our only ________.

It was a small place then compared to _______ it is now.

The thief took away the woman ’s wallet without ________.

He said that the group ________ him a letter and asked him to go there for an interview.

The reply, when it finally came, was ________ the negative.

Weather _______, we ’ll go out for a walk.

These two alarm clocks are normally set together, but now they have been reset a few hours _________.

There is a deadlock(僵局) in the discussion when neither side gives ________ to the other.

This is an important problem _______ too few social scientists have researched.

I don ’t mind _______ the decision as long as it is not too late.