The phrase "as alternative candidate" is not entirely correct in written English; it should be "as an alternative candidate." You can use it when referring to someone who is being considered as a substitute or backup option for a position or role.
Example: "In the event that the primary candidate declines the offer, we will consider her as an alternative candidate."
Alternatives: "as a backup candidate" or "as a substitute candidate."
In addition to the Fertile Crescent, Tibet, Ethiopia and Morocco have all been proposed as alternative candidate regions for the site of barley domestication (Åberg, 1938; Xu, 1982; Bekele, 1983; Molina-Cano et al., 1987, 2005; Zohary, 1996).
The former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini and another ex-England head coach, Roy Hodgson, have been mooted as alternative candidates and the latter boasts close ties with Palace, through whose youth ranks he graduated as a player.
In the last few years, manganites with a general formula R1−x A x MnO3 (R = rare earth, A = alkali earth) have attracted more attention as alternative candidates for MR near room temperature.
Thus, new carbon-based anode materials such as carbon nanotube [5], nanofiber [6], nanobead [7], hollow nanosphere [8], graphene [9], and their hybrids [10] with enhanced Li+ storage capacities and high rate performance have been explored as alternative candidates for anode of Li-ion batteries.
They serve as alternative candidates for potential metabolic engineering targets.
Therefore, we explicitly remove all family members of the original template and take all its fold members as alternative candidates.
The cells within these different zones have been proposed as alternative candidates for the stem cell population.
Natural occurring dietary polyphenolics have received considerable recent attention as alternative candidates for Alzheimer's disease therapy [ 2].
Tony Crosland nominated Jim Callaghan as the alternative candidate of the "revisionist right".
The former Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder emerged as an alternative candidate yesterday.
In the present work, two TMO/c-Si heterojunctions are explored using MoO3 (reference) and V2O5 as an alternative candidate.
