Example sentences of "opts for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may choose to neglect their health or to trade it for the freedom to do other things , as does the business executive who opts for a stressful way of life in pursuit of material success . |
| 2 | If the review of energy policy opts for a high coal burn , it will have to be balanced by maintaining ‘ clean ’ nuclear power plant which might also be under threat if the dash for gas is allowed to go unchecked . |
| 3 | Their opportunities , their perception of their opportunities , and their choices among their opportunities must all be determined by the complex whole , as must the fact that a ruling class opts for a particular ideology , and the fact that it opts for any justificatory ideology . |
| 4 | If he opts for a basic valuation , for which he pays a lower fee than for either of the other two , he will normally receive a copy . |
| 5 | Thus , they reckon , a director who weighs up the burden of meeting interest charges , and still opts for a big loan , has got to feel assured of success . |
| 6 | But in the ‘ new ’ version , Blade Runner The Director 's Cut , due out at the end of the month , Scott opts for a different and even darker conclusion . |
| 7 | He opts for a single fragment of European culture and , by way of compensation , he must at once reaffirm that ideal of personal and cultural wholeness which on various grounds he now sees immediately symbolized in Schopenhauer — and not least because Schopenhauer , for all his scorn of the contemporary world , unquestionably belongs to it . |
| 8 | This may partly explain why a speaker or writer opts for a marked theme in a given context . |