The phrase "adopt a house" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts related to adopting a style or design of a house, or in a metaphorical sense, but it is not standard.
Example: "After much consideration, we decided to adopt a house that reflects our personal style and values."
Alternatives: "choose a house" or "select a house design".
This was partly because Gaskill wanted to adopt a house style modelled on Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble, which Olivier resisted resolutely: "You must find a style for each play," he said.
"Since most people don't know this," Ms. Talel said, "the board should adopt a house rule to make it clear that smoking in a public area is prohibited by both the law and the rules of the building".
The fabric of our community is at risk unless we adopt a housing policy that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.
Warlow and his fellow writers have adopted a house style that combines antiquity with immediacy, finding that sweet spot between period escapism and visceral nowness.
For example, Mr. Ng said, if a co-op adopts a house rule that prohibits the use of washing machines in individual apartments in the building, how binding is that rule on rental tenants?
As yōkai, however, kitsune do not share human morality, and a kitsune who has adopted a house in this manner may, for example, bring its host money or items that it has stolen from the neighbors.
With regards to identifying cases, four CHWs adopted a house to house approach whilst the remaining utilised the community announcement system to raise awareness if the survey.
The postapartheid government has adopted a Housing Subsidy system which effectively provides ownership of a small house for low-income households.
An "In the Region" article in some copies last Sunday about the Adopt-a-House program in Connecticut misidentified the river that the program seemed to be following as it spread from Fairfield County into Litchfield and New Haven Counties.
My plan is to adopt a "whole house" design approach that delivers in stages, ideally spreading the cost over a longer period without incurring extra costs.
He is proud that the scheme not only adopts a "whole house" approach – assessing all issues in a home, rather than just dealing with one problem and going away – but also a "whole person" approach.
