Example sentences of "[prep] opt for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His decision to take a year off from international rugby has left selectors with the difficult choice of going for a short-term replacement or of opting for long-term continuity . |
| 2 | So , even if we take the relatively easy step of opting for unleaded petrol , our cars are still polluting the planet and damaging our health . |
| 3 | Instead of opting for generalized decadence and satanic luxury , Mr Alexander and his designer , Fotini Dimou , locate the action in a precise world : Naples in 1504 under Spanish rule and Catholic sway . |
| 4 | But Nietzsche 's motive in opting for classical philology , when he finally did so , was not simple . |
| 5 | Is he further aware of the bribe that that council is offering to its tenants in the form of a rent freeze to try to dissuade them from opting for new landlords in Commission for New Towns and council house properties ? |
| 6 | While it is indisputable that the proportions of both sub-degree and part-time courses in the polytechnics have declined , it remains to be proved that this is the result of policy on the part of the directors and their staffs ; it would seem much more likely to be a case of students ‘ voting with their feet ’ by opting for full-time degree courses . |
| 7 | Experience the incredible excitement and amazing diversity of these Far east centres by opting for one of our multi centre holidays . |
| 8 | They do not place themselves inside or outside the Renaissance by anything they actually do : it is we who place them there ( or exclude them therefrom ) by opting for one definition of the term rather than another . |
| 9 | Until the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 married women were either ineligible for full unemployment benefit or , by opting for reduced National Insurance contributions , were excluded altogether . |
| 10 | It reminds us of the Ibanez headstock , without the little scoop on the tip , but Starfield have cleverly disguised this similarity by opting for three-a-side Gotoh locking tuners as opposed to six . |