Example sentences of "opting [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are substantial grounds for regarding opting out as the most radical and successful experiment in state schooling for 30 years . |
| 2 | The Labour Party insists that self-governing trusts ( hospitals which choose to opt out of health-authority control and manage their own affairs ) are in fact opting out of the NHS altogether ; and that doctors who control their own budgets are going to turn queue-jumping at hospitals into a business practice . |
| 3 | Michael Jackson ( right ) , circa 1980 : pre-surgery , pre-Bubbles , but already opting out of the lifestyle everyday mortals lead |
| 4 | As Robert Balchin , chairman of the GM Schools Foundation , says : ‘ Many schools faced bitter hostility in opting out of the LEAs to which Labour will forcibly return them . |
| 5 | The 29-year-old singer , who has set up his own charity The Platinum Trust since opting out of the limelight two years ago , told Best magazine : |
| 6 | The French would rather have the neutral Finns opting out of the EC 's common foreign policy , for example , than watering it down . |
| 7 | I mean increasingly small authorities are effectively opting out of the national negotiat now we ca n't ignore th |
| 8 | Nigel , by opting out of the computer course , had already made his compromise with ambitious dreams . |
| 9 | A scientist who tried to cope with the orbit of Uranus by proposing that the force between Uranus and the sun obeyed something other than the inverse square law would be opting out of the Newtonian research programme . |
| 10 | Paradoxically , most general practitioners think that opting out of the responsibility for out of hours care altogether should be made possible . |
| 11 | The reason for their exclusion , despite the government 's professed desire for parent power , was that parents and governing bodies were known to be likely to reject opting out of the ILEA . |
| 12 | British policy towards the European Community could be said to involve careful application of realist principles — the pursuit of national self-interest , narrowly defined , through participation in the single market but opting out of the social chapter . |
| 13 | ‘ I take it we 're opting out of the crime business ? ’ |
| 14 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that because of his action in opting out of the social charter , Great Britain will be the only country in Europe that will deny its people the legal right to paid holidays ? |
| 15 | thought that it was about privatisation or opting out of the health service , because the Labour party was putting about pamphlets saying such things as ’ Now the Government is forcing our hospitals to opt out of the NHS . ’ |
| 16 | Will the Secretary of State accept that there are those of us who have never made the point that trust status is about opting out of the national health service , but have said that it is about local accountability and the views of local people ? |
| 17 | One aspect of Britain 's opting out of the social charter is that it must surely undermine the single market . |
| 18 | It is important that we should recognise that Britain 's opting out of the social chapter will create difficulties because the European single market will no longer be a level playing field . |
| 19 | Opting OUT OF THE NHS |
| 20 | Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case . |
| 21 | You 're not walking , not about widespread privatisation , but creeping privatisation and you 're now talking about not opting out of the National Health Service but you 're now talking about opting out of local national Health Service control . |
| 22 | Government and hospitals are not opting out of the N H S at all , they are every much of it a as part of the Health Service as they every have been and you all know that and it 's about time you stopped saying it . |
| 23 | They started off saying opting out of the Health Service , now we 're opting of local N H S control . |
| 24 | And I 'll tell you what the problem is about the Trusts , and I 'll explain why they are opting out of the National Health Service . |
| 25 | Opting out of schools , opting out of the N H S and trying to opt out of Europe , but what you forgot is that your leader signed a document that says you ca n't opt out of Europe . |
| 26 | After criticising Government policy since 1979 , when the Conservatives came to power , Mr Clarke said : ‘ For John Major to claim credit for Hoover jobs staying Scotland — thanks to him opting out of the Social Chapter and keeping wages down — is a disgraceful betrayal of the Scottish workforce . |
| 27 | Angered by Hoover 's decision to switch 400 jobs from Dijon to Cambuslang , Mr Mitterrand told a television audience that the 11 other nations would eventually force Britain to stop what he described as unfair competition by opting out of the social chapter . |
| 28 | Even opting out of the social chapter to undercut the core on labour costs will not ultimately compensate for complete isolation . |
| 29 | The one dear to the heart of the popular press is the possibility of individuals opting out of the labour market altogether to ‘ sponge ’ off the state . |
| 30 | Mrs Ardern vowed to keep open Speke 's closure-threatened Pope John Paul II High School even if it meant opting out of the control of the church . |