The phrase "adopt a type" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of choosing or embracing a particular category, style, or model in various contexts, such as design, behavior, or classification.
Example: "In order to streamline our project, we decided to adopt a type of agile methodology that best fits our team's needs."
Alternatives: "embrace a category" or "choose a style".
PAGE A15 Pension Change Proposed The White House has proposed pension rules that will encourage companies to adopt a type of plan that critics say can strip benefits from older employees.
The Bush administration has proposed sweeping new pension rules that will encourage companies to adopt a type of retirement plan that has been under attack for three years for what critics call a tendency to strip benefits from older employees.
Just as significant, in agreeing to move into the future with DoCoMo, AT&T Wireless said yesterday that it would adopt a type of network technology that would be more compatible with overseas systems than AT&T's current technology.
So instead of perpetuating the back and forth argument on directly arming rebel groups, the West should adopt a type of aid that doesn't face the same technical or political hurdles at home.
Because rubidium is magnetic, however, Stamper-Kurn and his Berkeley colleagues thought that the magnetic interactions between rubidium atoms in the gas might nudge them to adopt a type of regular spacing like atoms in a solid.
Pro 5 and Gly 6 adopt a type II tight turn and Lys 2's ζ-NH3+ is positioned to form a favorable cation π interaction with Trp 4's indole ring.
X-ray diffraction studies show that peptides Boc-Leu-Aib-m-ABA-OMe (I) (Aib, α-aminoisobutyric acid; m-ABA, meta-aminobenzoic acid) and Boc-Phe-Aib-m-ABA-OMe (II) adopt a type-II β-turn conformation, solely stabilized by co-operative steric interactions amongst the amino acid residues.
Rejection of Cards Abroad For globe-trotting travelers, another issue is that many countries in Europe, as well as Japan, Canada, Mexico and other nations, have adopted a type of credit card that has a chip and requires customers to enter a PIN instead of the ones with a magnetic stripe on the back that we still use in the United States.
Palm in the last year has adopted a type of flash memory card Secure Digital cards as a standard.
For instance, we adopted a type of pluggable interface designed to improve the stability of laser diode part.
Previous studies indicate that this rigid, cyclic analog adopts a type I β-turn with a transPro over residues TPRL within the core PK/PBAN region.
