Example sentences of "decide [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bulgarian government has decided to suspend production at the country 's biggest lead plant for several months because it is causing severe pollution to nearby agricultural land . |
| 2 | Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) . |
| 3 | It has been decided to transfer £75 to the group from the Society 's main account . |
| 4 | The Thatcher Government initially decided to abolish SERPS on the basis that the country could not afford it , a view contested by the Government Actuary 's report on the proposed changes ( Report by the Government Actuary on the Financial Effects of the Bill on the National Insurance Fund , Cmnd. 9711 , HMSO , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The cost of developing new generations of chip technology are so high that collaboration is increasingly the order of the day , and Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have decided to join forces on the development of logic process technology to enable the production of microprocessors with 5m to 10m transistors on a single chip by 1995 . |
| 6 | Deciding to take care of the fuel later , Berger pitted for tyres on lap 35 and rejoined in third place . |
| 7 | In the choice of rotation by one farmer in East Anglia in 1970 , why did he decide to spread fertiliser at the start of Year 5 ? |
| 8 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 9 | Red Rhino were impressed with the reaction and decided to invest £400 in the band to record a follow-up . |
| 10 | The townspeople decide to write letters to the giant asking him to leave , reasoning that talking to him directly would be too dangerous . |
| 11 | All burglars know that ninety-eight per cent of all housewives decide to hide things in the tea caddy . ’ |
| 12 | Kluck , therefore , decided to march east of the capital to strike the French centre and right armies in rear and destroy them . |
| 13 | ( Is there anyone who actually believes that Novell decided to buy USL at the urging of Novell 's customers ? |
| 14 | De Valera 's Republicans decided to contest seats in the North and thus allowed Prime Minister Brooke to present the election as a plebiscite on partition and the existence of Ulster . |
| 15 | He only collected four points in the 1961 championship and decided to leave Cooper at the end of the season to develop hi ow Grand Prix car . |
| 16 | I decided to put sections of the lake and river systems in the background , allowing an impression of the vegetation on the banks and in the distance to give a general idea of which part of a river or what type of lake was shown . |
| 17 | After the war , he decided to cede Sarawak to the Crown , and returned there from England in February 1946 , to inform the people of his decision . |
| 18 | In 1972 Lady Amory and Sir John decided to give Knightshayes to the Trust , there being nobody in the family who was a gardener . |
| 19 | He subsequently decided to do penance for the deed , and set off to his foundation at Agaune . |
| 20 | Drawing the conclusion that an all too possible sequel was a move across the frontier , and with the aim of pre-empting any such step , both the US and Britain decided to send forces to the area to protect Saudi Arabia . |
| 21 | The Department of Health decided to adopt part of the model ( the reduced weighting for standardised mortality ratio ) and ignore the index of social factors . |
| 22 | For example , we decided to pay attention to the way we looked so we all had our hair cut short — except Wally — and took to wearing Hush Puppies and jeans , a kind of mod look — which was odd considering that Malcolm had a shop which specialised in teddy boy gear . |
| 23 | But as The Smiths were advised to sever all contacts with Rough Trade , they decided to drop Easterhouse from the tour . |
| 24 | Madigan 's Millions was held back from release until American International Pictures decided to take advantage of the success of Midnight Cowboy by foisting it on to the public in 1969 in a double bill with Jon Voight 's early indiscretion , Fearless Frank , also made in 1967 . |
| 25 | I warned them that d-i-yers should stop short of tampering with British Telecom 's property , but they nevertheless decided to take look inside the junction box . |
| 26 | It is becoming hard to avoid the conclusion that the Government made an error of judgment when it decided to take Britain into the ERM in October 1990 , just as Germany was entering an economic crisis . |
| 27 | He decided to take asylum in the university hospital for two years with no treatment . |
| 28 | Pat had left for work when the news came and Anne and Maureen decided to telephone Tony at the factory . |
| 29 | When the left-wing city council decided to ban cars from the city centre in the late seventies , they rushed the scheme through against considerable opposition from local businesses . |
| 30 | He decided to throw caution to the wind before Selwyn came over for his tea . |