Example sentences of "have opted for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American Telephone & Telegraph has opted for a closer partnership with its trade unions to boost productivity and the quality of its services . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rather than pandering to these fading fans ( and perhaps building up false expectations ) , the good Dr David Marsh has opted for the cattle-prod technique beloved of third division no-hopers . |
| 4 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 5 | Major , in contrast , has opted for the quiet life . |
| 6 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has gone to Micro Focus Plc , Newbury , Berkshire for a Cobol compiler for its Series 400 fault-tolerant Unix multi-processor : it has opted for the Micro Focus Cobol/2 optimised for the hardware architecture to produce high performance native code ; no value was given for the agreement . |
| 7 | It is difficult , therefore , to understand why Bowsher has opted for an alternative definition . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The House of Lords held that since the sellers had opted for the one shipment , albeit with separate documents , the contract was not severable . |
| 12 | By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy . |
| 13 | Stalin , the architect of the revolutionary Soviet state , the instigator of unprecedented social reforms and freedoms , the defender of international peace and security , the supporter of Republican Spain , had struck a cynical deal with Hitler , had in one stroke abandoned the principles of collective security and defence of nation states , and had opted for the fascist diplomacy of " bilateral agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 14 | If you have opted for non-action , then you have opted for a living death . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The club have opted for a left arm spinner Jamie Stewart from Western Australia as their pro . |
| 20 | Nationalism Today and its more tabloid partner National Front News have opted for the Palestinian cause , whilst Vanguard seems , at first sight , to be overturning a whole tradition of fascist ideology by advocating what appears to be a pro-Zionist position . |