The phrase "opted to consider" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when indicating a choice to think about or take into account a particular matter or option.
Example: "After much deliberation, the committee opted to consider the new proposal for funding."
Alternatives: "chose to evaluate" or "decided to reflect on".
Third, as the focus of our work was not to contrast the way specific groups function they certainly differ in their functioning but to identify regularities in human interactions when students are asked to work in groups, we opted to consider the data collected as a unique corpus of verbal interactions even though the utterances were produced by different groups.
Initially, they had considered using Microsoft XNA for ease of porting to the Xbox 360, but later opted to consider other release platforms, requiring them to switch to the more portable Mono framework.
For the sake of robustness and conservativeness, we opted to consider for further analysis only those DCCs with silhouette values greater than or equal to 0.6.
Instead of following a deterministic description with well defined kinetic parameters, we have opted to consider a statistical procedure which leads to the construction of dynamic libraries for quantifying how and how fast the metabolic networks reached its steady-state, see Figure 1.
So we also opted to consider relevant research pertaining to the effectiveness of land-based protection.
Due to the adequate sensitivity of the method we opted to consider MRD as the dilution of matrix that fully mitigates the impact of matrix on the back-calculated analyte value (in this case, a dilution factor of 6).
Even assuming the Court does opt to consider the merits of the case, it still may not issue the sweeping ruling some people are hoping for.
While the Baraff guidelines considered all infants less than 28d to be HR, we opted to only consider patients for LR stratification if they were older than 30 days.
All clinical exclusion criteria were based on conditions that we were not confident of vis-a-vis the effectiveness or safety of TMP-SMX 7 9 and that we opted to exclude considering clinical equipoise in trial settings.
This basically exempted broadband companies, which the FCC had itself opted not to consider telecoms in order to save trouble, from their oversight altogether!
Part of the reason may be that he, unlike others, have opted to say he would consider it is because he is a long shot, having been forced out of the Republican presidential race late last year amid allegations of sexual harassment.
