Example sentences of "[noun] decided [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett decided to ignore the sarcastic tone and refused to be drawn . |
| 2 | Corbett decided to press the point . |
| 3 | By the end of that month Raybestos decided to abandon the Knockanemore dump ‘ in the interests of community harmony ’ . |
| 4 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 5 | Dustin was doing so badly that Nichols decided to allow the actor time to learn his lines and then redo the test . |
| 6 | Alwen might have known , for when the club decided to build the original Valley in 1919 they began with 2s 3d in the kitty and it 's been a financial slog ever since . |
| 7 | And again , the Club decided to alter the clubhouse . |
| 8 | She and David decided to catch the bus down into Florence and then try for a taxi home . |
| 9 | When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 . |
| 10 | In the end the drinkers decided to ask the barmaid if the great hoofer was still with us . |
| 11 | President Bush had announced to the US Congress on Jan. 15 his decision to release US$42,500,000 in military aid to El Salvador , on the grounds that guerrillas of the FMLN had failed to comply with certain conditions laid down in October 1990 , when the United States decided to withhold the aid [ see p. 37770 ] . |
| 12 | Top hair stylist Guy Kremer decided to thin the fringe and re-shape his close crop . |
| 13 | While all this was going on , the police had made several arrests , and the Department of Trade and Industry decided to interview the 16 witnesses all over again . |
| 14 | What upset charities is that when it was made law here , the Department of Trade and Industry decided to make the ruling stricter and to include second-hand toys . |
| 15 | After a nightmare trip to a hairdresser , Susan Newby decided to make the salon pay for its mistakes |
| 16 | The designers decided to supply the cognitive power of this machine by giving it a human . |
| 17 | After the Second World War , for example , the photographer Alexander Liberman decided to visit the studios of artists who had contributed to a century of painting in France , painters and sculptors closely connected with the School of Paris . |
| 18 | Several US journalists decided to sue the US government for infringing their liberties , claiming that the restrictions reflected more the military 's belief that free reporting during the Vietnam war had turned US citizens against the war , than concern for security . |
| 19 | But with the tide of war now running against the Allies , many of the natives decided to join the winning side , just as they had in Dutch Timor the previous winter . |
| 20 | It 's as if , instead of turning towards metal , early '80s hardcore decided to drop the politics for the personal and pursue some semblance of catchiness . |
| 21 | Very much on the British initiative , and spurred by fears of economic decline , in the mid-1980s the EC countries decided to implement the provisions of the Treaty of Rome concerning the internal market by 1992 . |
| 22 | THE battle for the ownership of ITN , the TV news service , took a fresh turn yesterday when the bidding companies decided to extend the offer to November 18 . |
| 23 | Recognizing the efficacy of the quality improvement process also known as total quality management , many leading Japanese companies decided to apply the concepts . |
| 24 | The town 's Museum and Art Gallery decided to invite the people of Walsall to display their own collections and were overwhelmed by the response . |
| 25 | On April 30 , 1990 , leaders of the PRPB decided to dissolve the party and replace it with a new party to be known as the Union of the Forces of Progress ( UFP ) to contest the legislative elections due in February 1991 . |
| 26 | Finally the Ashleys decided to combat the problem of non-paying wholesale customers by themselves buying a London shop . |
| 27 | Léonie decided to reserve the pleasure of baiting Madeleine for later . |
| 28 | Nkrumah decided to order the immediate airlift of two of the army 's three battalions to Leopoldville to give muscle to the UN who , meanwhile , had established a mission in the Congo . |
| 29 | The Planning Committee decided to abandon the proposal for housing development on this site . |
| 30 | The Committee decided to examine the question because some of the arguments against legislation suggest that a law in this area would be impracticable . |