Example sentences of "chosen a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was delighted to see you had chosen a young man and woman with Down 's Syndrome to model shirts in the Spring 1991 catalogue . |
| 2 | Andy Currier and Paul Newlove are the newcomers , scarcely unheralded , but Reilly has chosen a squad rather than a team because of injury doubts over Andy Gregory and Joe Lydon , and with the threat of suspension hanging over Shaun Edwards . |
| 3 | Sid had chosen a spot at the top of the orchard a few yards from the wall surrounding Brigade H.Q ‘ We can have two trenches with one entrance , ’ he said , ‘ Your trench there , and my trench here , ’ drawing a diagram with the point of his bayonet . |
| 4 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 5 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 6 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 7 | For that extra touch of mystique we 've chosen a pair of dark sunglasses . |
| 8 | Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’ |
| 9 | Also by competing it risks cannibalising its own best profit sources : IBM selling an AS/400 mini is a triumph if the buyer would otherwise have chosen a DEC VAX , but a financial disaster for IBM if it replaces an IBM mainframe . |
| 10 | I have chosen a spiced chicken pilaff , which can be served with a fresh tomato and chilli chutney to liven things up if the evening looks a little dull . |
| 11 | And the victim could have chosen a better place to voice throaty communist sentiments . |
| 12 | This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman . |
| 13 | We had deliberately chosen a villa with easy access to the sea , but the children preferred their own pool . |
| 14 | Mr Major has also chosen a new adviser on foreign affairs , Sir Rodric Braithwaite , who is retiring as British ambassador to Moscow next month . |
| 15 | In light of the large numbers who had chosen a similar response to the question , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ it was not surprising that so many gave job satisfaction as one of the personal benefits of training . |
| 16 | Had they chosen a weekday for the coup , there would have been heavy traffic at this hour and news of the roadblocks would have spread quickly throughout the country , perhaps warning one of the ministers before he could be captured … one more example of exemplary planning . |
| 17 | From her family 's point of view she could scarcely have chosen a more unsuitable lover . |
| 18 | It was a loose group of freewheeling radicals who had chosen a particularly acute social problem as a vehicle for broader political alms . |
| 19 | Because Jo 's father was English and Lorna Lewis gave many interviews explaining that the secret of keeping a marriage together in Hollywood was to make sure your husband was the king of his own home , they had chosen a house built in English baronial style , with walls mantled with ivy , black exposed timbers , fireplaces big enough to hold a conference in and small diamond-paned windows through which the sun streamed defiantly in brilliant narrow shafts . |
| 20 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 21 | Sleepily goes into spiel about what kind of care would she like , has she chosen a hospital yet , how does she feel generally , this is her first , is n't it , a lot of nonsense talked nowadays about active births and so on , what people fail to realize is that birth is potentially highly dangerous for the mother and the child and that with a bit of foresight and the right equipment it 's possible to etc. , etc. , etc . |
| 22 | With it , she had chosen a pair of black sneakers and a huge black bracelet . |
| 23 | Keld is a Norse word meaning ‘ a spring ’ and the first settlers here could not have chosen a more appropriate name for there is always the sound of water ; the little cluster of stone buildings occupies a headland thrust into the turbulent cataracts of the Swale , in infancy Yorkshire 's most exuberant river . |
| 24 | ( For example , they might say that they have a woman deacon in their parish , or that they have chosen a woman — or a man — as their doctor . ) |
| 25 | In retrospect , I know now that I could not have chosen a more co-operative species than the chub with which to begin a vocation in big-fish angling . |
| 26 | If the message Can not rename file appears , you have chosen a filename which is already in use . |
| 27 | And no doubt other authors would have chosen a different balance of topics — more invertebrates and light vertebrates perhaps . |
| 28 | Sensible parents would have chosen a hill station near us , rented a house , and sent us every year to the same school . |
| 29 | This is why we have chosen a mouth ( on the following diagram ) to represent the outgoing side of a personality ; but this is only one side of the personality . |
| 30 | ‘ But I could n't have chosen a better house than this flat . ’ |