Example sentences of "opted for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 2 | Among companies that have opted for a total or partial switch to diesel in recent months are Philips Electronics , Dunn & Bradstreet , the Milk Marketing Board , London Electricity Board and Alliance & Leicester Building Society . |
| 3 | According to the evidence at the trial , only Zaidie bore witness to the defendant 's telephoned confession , but the defence might have promoted a viable theory of conspiracy if they had been able to show that Matadial had also testified to a confession , then resiled from it in her deposition , taken the offensive again in her addendum and finally opted for a female voice in her evidence . |
| 4 | According to Radio Moscow 's Interfax , a news service , and Commersant , a magazine of the Union of Co-operatives , after a five-year dither the Soviet Union has at last opted for a Polish-style Big Bang for its economic reform . |
| 5 | By 1991 over 4 million people , including a substantial number of women , had opted for a rebated APP instead of SERPS ( Committee of Public Accounts , 1991 ) . |
| 6 | If you have opted for non-action , then you have opted for a living death . |
| 7 | That is why power boat owner David Peaks opted for a five-door turbo diesel Mitsubishi Shogun — rival to the Range Rover — after a succession of diesel Land-Rovers . |
| 8 | EMERGING FROM the chaos of being dropped by Arista as 16 Tambourines , singer Steve Roberts and bassist Tony Elliot have opted for a new guitarist , a new drummer and a radically altered sound . |
| 9 | EMERGING FROM the chaos of being dropped by Arista as 16 Tambourines , singer Steve Roberts and bassist Tony Elliot have opted for a new guitarist , a new drummer and a radically altered sound . |
| 10 | One or two other manufacturers have opted for a similar idea to this , where the knob sweeps through an infinitely variable range of tones , from soft and middley to bass and treble-heavy ‘ crunch ’ . |
| 11 | As with contemporary campaigns around the criminal law , the state opted for a neutral course of non-intervention . |
| 12 | PLANS by British Aerospace and France 's Thomson-CSF to merge their guided weapons businesses moved a step closer yesterday after the United Kingdom 's Ministry of Defence opted for a European missile for the new generation of anti-aircraft frigates . |
| 13 | There were plenty of bars and restaurants to choose from , but Sabine had already mentally opted for a simple meal . |
| 14 | For these reasons , Senior opted for a two-tier system , and the Conservative government in the early 1970s also sought to marry the advantages of a quite different two-tier structure for the benefit of both efficiency ( top tier ) and democracy ( lower tier ) . |
| 15 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 16 | In the twilight of its life , TOTP has opted for a radical face-lift , which has turned out instead like a make-over from Hell . |
| 17 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 18 | I should have resisted your blandishments last night and opted for a quiet Friday evening at home . ’ |
| 19 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 20 | When faced with the same problem the compilers of the LOB corpus opted for a statistical approach . |
| 21 | Instead of preserving the statistics-and-dice method of combat , the programmers have opted for a tacky arcade sequence featuring blocky , sluggish sprites and no skill at all . |
| 22 | Britain had played a major part in the Bretton Woods agreement which , through the establishment of the International Monetary Fund , led to a major role for sterling as a reserve currency [ Eckes , 1975 ] ; and in 1945 , after considerable debate , it had opted for a large US loan ( $3.75bn plus $650m in settlement of Lend-Lease obligations ) as against tighter domestic restrictions on consumption , to help to overcome post-war shortages of goods and materials . |
| 23 | The under-sevens group were equally imaginative : there were three joint winners — the five-year olds in class 3K at Noel Park Infant School made huge model of their Castle of Adventure ; Parkhurst Infant School devised a huge pre-historic turtle playpark while St John 's Highbury Vale Primary School opted for a detailed adventure playground . |
| 24 | The club have opted for a left arm spinner Jamie Stewart from Western Australia as their pro . |
| 25 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 26 | A second group of stations opted for a free version of cinquecento baroque — Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof ( 1872 ) , Mannheim ( 1876 ) , Budapest East ( 1876 ) , Zurich ( 1871 ) , and Brunswick ( 1848 ) . |
| 27 | We have opted for a single 19″ Triton fluorescent tube in this 2′ tank . |
| 28 | For instance , if a couple opted for a full surrogacy arrangement , they could have a baby that bears the same genetic relationship to them as do children conceived in the normal way , while someone else copes with the inconvenience of pregnancy and birth . |
| 29 | Charles , spurning an old Scottish tradition , opted for a royal cover-up . |
| 30 | Scottish Hydro decided to go to war , but with environmental considerations in mind opted for a psychological approach rather than the shotgun option . |