Example sentences of "opted [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentators analysing the results said that they showed that voters had rewarded the NSF for its efforts over the past six months , had opted for gradual change , and supported a political grouping which showed far greater coherence than the fragmented opposition . |
| 2 | Far greater numbers of girls opted for technical subjects than had ever done so before . |
| 3 | Some have opted for firm sale agreements to cut out the costly returns process , most notably with the Waterstones group and Reed with Dillons . |
| 4 | The Irishman had the choice of the two horses in Ascot 's H & T Walker Chase last month , and successfully opted for Deep Sensation . |
| 5 | On the Settle and Carlisle line , the Midland Railway opted for single-storey buildings , with twin-gabled Pavilions , linked by a central section that housed a recessed waiting area . |
| 6 | Until 2 May , Claude Bernard is showing paintings and watercolours by Giorgio Morandi , while the Galerie des Archives has opted for recent canvases by the American Lydia Dona . |
| 7 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 8 | Jannink have opted for limited editions ( 300 numbered copies , with a lithograph , at FFr480 ) of previously unpublished writings by artists : Erro , Monory , Soulages , Martial Raysse . |
| 9 | During the same period , clinical practice , aided by an armoury of pharmaceuticals , has opted for short-term admissions and out-patient treatment , together with the rehabilitation of long-stay patients and the closure of huge Victorian asylums . |
| 10 | Although the classification of countries in Table 8.1 suggests that a large majority of countries have opted for stable exchange rates , in fact this is not so ; those countries which are pegged to the US dollar will find their exchange rate moving against other currencies , because the US dollar itself is an independently floating currency . |
| 11 | There was a general feeling among the local community a few years ago that academic standards at the school had slipped , and many parents opted for other schools in the area for their children . |
| 12 | President Kaunda told delegates that Zambia 's experience could not be compared to that of the Soviet Union or of East European countries which had recently opted for political pluralism . |
| 13 | They support the FDR-FMLN on a negotiated solution , condemn the role of the United States and have opted for electoral abstention on the grounds that their children have been denied the vote and that therefore the conditions ( or free elections do not exist . |
| 14 | Instead of the sexy bits he 'd opted for poetic descriptions of London at night and the philosophic chapter from his last book about the beauties of a relationship between a young girl and an older man . |
| 15 | In a referendum held in Bosnia-Hercegovina on Feb. 29-March 1 , 99.4 per cent of those voting opted for full independence . |
| 16 | Mary Queen of Scots chose black morocco emblazoned with the royal lion of Scotland ; the French statesman Jean Baptiste Colbert had his 50,000 books bound in a morocco specially imported by treaty with the Sultan of Morocco ; one of the d'Urfe family opted for green velvet for his library of four thousand ; Madame du Deffand , friend of Voltaire and Horace Walpole ( to whom she left the care of her dog Tonton ) , endeavoured to immortalise her cat by using a gold stamp of it on the spines of her books ; the three daughters of Louis V each had her own colour with the fleur-de-lis in the centre of each cover — Adelaide red , Victoire olive green and Sophie citron . |
| 17 | Werewolf had opted for clear plastic goggles but he had already dispensed with them , tying them to his belt . |
| 18 | I am delighted to say that , to date , 315 schools have opted for grant-maintained status . |
| 19 | Having , say , opted for different income groups as the unit of analysis , a calculation along the following lines can be performed for each group : |
| 20 | But unless she is lucky she will also meet others who have opted for different solutions to the problem of how to be a teacher . |