verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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in
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We are not committed to opting in by anything in either clause 2 or any later part of the treaty.
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I recoil at the idea of opting in as strongly as I hurt at the implications of opting out.
instead
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They may instead opt for a production, product or sales-orientation. 4.
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That is like an obese person with unhealthy eating habits deciding against making dietary changes and opting instead for liposuction.
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After obtaining her degree, she decided against teaching, opting instead for a career as a freelance translator.
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Frequently, business writers ask questions and neglect to answer them, opting instead to provide related, yet loosely connected information.
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But she refused to deal, opting instead to await the crown she believed was hers.
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They can opt instead to send children to private schools.
out
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Their attitude is seen as giving Third World nations a licence to opt out themselves.
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I recoil at the idea of opting in as strongly as I hurt at the implications of opting out .
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Those schemes do not represent opting out , as hospitals will remain within the National Health Service.
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Also, any programme should allow people to opt out if they wish.
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Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year.
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People tend to opt out , criticize themselves, not accept compliments, not make decisions and feel frustrated.
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Three other schools are to have ballots of parents on opting out , in response to regional rationalisation plans.
■ NOUN
authority
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Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control.
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There are divisions too on schools opting out of local authority control and on the National Curriculum.
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Schools and housing associations can opt out of local authority control.
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It's opting out of local authority control.
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The 1988 Housing Act, as we have seen, offered tenants the opportunity to opt out of local authority control.
control
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Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control .
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Hospitals that have chosen to opt out of health-authority control and become self-governing will start running their own affairs.
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The government's already allowed seventeen hospitals to opt out of the control of their local health boards.
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There are divisions too on schools opting out of local authority control and on the National Curriculum.
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Schools and housing associations can opt out of local authority control .
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It's opting out of local authority control .
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The 1988 Housing Act, as we have seen, offered tenants the opportunity to opt out of local authority control .
decision
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Few or no other routes were available and so it was a most logical decision to opt for the sporting escape.
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The decision to opt for sewage composting was made largely in order to reduce the need for water for flushing the toilet.
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The decision to opt out of the requirement to scrummage changed the whole nature of the game.
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Unfortunately, the decision to opt for smoothness rather than scruffiness, composure rather than gaucheness, is not an innocent choice.
people
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Also, any programme should allow people to opt out if they wish.
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The problem is that instead of getting angry and fighting back, so many people are opting out instead.
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The aim is that those young people who opt for early leaving would themselves be substantial gainers.
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Most people now opt for one of the textured nylons, such as Ardura, Cordura or Kodra.
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There's a religious revival in card designs, but most people opt out for holly and robins.
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The positive feature today is that more people now opt for a position in the middle.
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Perhaps it's because so many people are opting not to bother.
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The cracks in the moral edifice are visibly growing: people are beginning to opt out of its orthodoxies.
school
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Many of those who feel they are achieving least, and are most disruptive in schools , would opt for early leaving.
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There are divisions too on schools opting out of local authority control and on the National Curriculum.
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Some believe the school should opt out and reduce pupil numbers.
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He said the Lib Dems would encourage school opting out but stop hospitals taking control of their own finances.
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It also promises a new funding body as more schools chose to opt out.
student
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The draft student charter would allow students to opt out of their associations and would constrain unions within the law on charitable status.
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Honours students may opt to include two literature in translation courses in their curriculum.
■ VERB
allow
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The draft student charter would allow students to opt out of their associations and would constrain unions within the law on charitable status.
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Income transfers, in contrast, allow individuals to effectively opt out of the capitalistic process.
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Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control.
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Also, any programme should allow people to opt out if they wish.
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Only large practices would be allowed to opt for the scheme.
choose
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Hospitals that have chosen to opt out of health-authority control and become self-governing will start running their own affairs.
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But it chose race, opting for diversity on the otherwise all-white business staff.
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Clearly then, if the company is to choose one it should opt for the first.
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It also promises a new funding body as more schools chose to opt out.
decide
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After obtaining her degree, she decided against teaching, opting instead for a career as a freelance translator.
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The two girls decide instead to opt for a frantic search for their long-lost father.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After college, Ruffin opted for the Army over college.
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When her parents divorced, Mary Ann opted to live with her father.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As against the classical, the serenely beautiful, Nietzsche was opting for the archaic.
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For an additional £145 visitors can opt to vacate their hotel rooms for a two-night safari.
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Suppose Holt's 6-year-old does opt out of school?
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This does not mean opting out of positive training or the setting of limits.