Example sentences of "[verb] to decide [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Instead of a centrally funded service , Mr Lang said , health boards will have to decide whether to provide IVF and other hi-tech treatments from within their existing budgets . |
| 32 | We do not have to decide whether to keep in bulk or alternatively to sample , particular instance papers which electronic data handling techniques now make potentially useful to the historian in ways that they simply were not before . |
| 33 | The Executive will have to decide whether to add the money raised by the appeal to the £5,000 or retain it as a part-contribution towards the pledge we made . |
| 34 | Should there be a re-run , the Queen would have to decide whether to grant Mr Major a second dissolution or allow Mr Kinnock his chance . |
| 35 | Fifteen hundred manual workers will have to decide whether to cross picket lines tomorrow morning . |
| 36 | Under Scenario 1 , the Carmel Campaign Consortium would have to decide whether to contest McAlpine 's appeal . |
| 37 | On Jan. 16 he called again for an intensification of the armed struggle , but on Jan. 18 he reportedly told the executive council meeting that currently " we do not have the capacity within our country to intensify the armed struggle in any meaningful way " , that the ANC must " begin without delay to prepare our negotiating position " , and that in the event of its being unbanned it would have to decide whether to operate only as a legal movement or , alternatively , to maintain underground units . |
| 38 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 39 | If the recommendations of the White Paper Working for patients are implemented according to the present timetable , then managers are going to have to decide whether to become primarily ‘ purchasers ’ or ‘ providers ’ of services . |
| 40 | The question that people who are forced to decide whether to discard or not are liable to ask is : ‘ What have the students actually lost if these books go ? |
| 41 | THE Attorney-General has just six days left to decide whether to ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the sentence of Harley Street rapist Dr Tom Courtney . |
| 42 | ‘ Let us say I might grow old and die trying to decide whether to act intellectually or emotionally . ’ |
| 43 | He looked like a particularly lethargic Newfoundland dog , trying to decide whether to obey an order . |
| 44 | As long ago as 1925 , when the American Victor company was trying to decide whether to use the Western Electric recording system , Victor executives complained that ‘ it did n't sound like a phonograph ’ . |
| 45 | Trying to decide whether to take them down off my windows and put some poles up . |
| 46 | The Home Office and the DoI are now trying to decide whether to overturn Hunt , offend the BBC and ITV and give Britain an unlimited menu of pop programming — or stick to Hunt 's ideals and risk stifling the British cable network at birth . |
| 47 | In his valuable and revealing Diaries of a Cabinet Minister R. H. S. Crossman gives an account of how the Labour Cabinet of which he was a member had to decide whether to allow an oil company to build a refinery on Canvey Island in Essex . |
| 48 | The Court of Appeal had to decide whether to authorize surgery on a week-old child born with Down 's syndrome and duodenal atresia . |
| 49 | We need to decide whether to put in a writ or what . ’ |
| 50 | Having reached the end of the second sentence , we have to decide whether to repeat what we have already written , or introduce something new as a contrast or relief . |
| 51 | I have to decide whether to put in my poems and short stories and a series of LETTERS , originally called LETTERS TO x ( some 180 very short letters written in three days in about two years ago ) rather in the writing style of the legendary DEAR ABBIE written in the 1920s ( or 30s ? you are bound to know ! ) by Dane Chandos . |
| 52 | It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show . |
| 53 | The latter have to decide whether to stop trying or to resort to more unconventional methods in the hope that government will be sufficiently embarrassed by the ensuing mayhem to consult them . |
| 54 | The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists . |
| 55 | Then the trustees have to decide whether to distribute it or not ; keep it for future expenses and things like that . |
| 56 | It is considered more conventional for girls to take arts subjects than sciences ; as convergers tend to be more conventional in outlook , girls are in something of a double bind — they have to decide whether to follow their inclinations or to make a ‘ conventional ’ choice . |
| 57 | When it is apparent that external circumstances have changed , you have to decide whether to cry chicken and run too early , or continue to reinforce and spend time , money and ever increasing numbers of your best people , who are invariably sucked into the most difficult areas of the battle , trying to fight a war which you can not win . |
| 58 | Spurs have to decide whether to recall Stewart to their attack or stick to a successful formula . |
| 59 | ‘ But I have a few more days before Chelsea have to decide whether to buy me . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I have to decide whether to get a goalkeeper on loan for the rest of the season in case something happens to Pears . |