Example sentences of "[art] decision [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Yet the decision not to spend that day at Sandringham is hers and hers alone .
2 The manoeuvring ability left to the Callaghan government was now slight , following the decision not to call an early election .
3 One example was the decision not to destroy the ruins of the German cathedral , where Kant is buried .
4 Thus the decision not to appoint Risk could be seen as an attempt by the Board to carry out its fiduciary duty to the shareholders ( ie to act in their best interests ) .
5 The fundholding debate : should practices reconsider the decision not to fundhold ?
6 The decision not to merge with the RSA Examinations Board , announced by the Trustees in October 1992 , heralds a new period for the Board as an independent examining body .
7 And it says the decision not to assign a psychiatric nurse was made on medical and not financial grounds .
8 Mr David Owen , Nupe 's area officer , said the decision not to use ambulance radios meant that crews would only answer emergency calls at stations .
9 The minister also defended the decision not to use secondary teachers .
10 She claimed the decision not to use secondary teachers was because that would take longer than the Scottish Office was prepared to wait .
11 We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not .
12 Importantly , Skinner and Vincent have attempted to address difficult medical issues such as resistant arrhythmias and the ethical difficulty of the decision not to resuscitate .
13 Consultant anaesthetist Dr Gilbert Park said : ‘ The decision not to resuscitate will be made by doctors , patients and their relatives .
14 Failure to act in a particular way will not be an abuse of power unless the decision not to act in that way is beyond the limits of the discretion given to the power-holder .
15 He regrets the decision not to re-title the revision : ‘ It was completely rewritten , but keeping the title meant that a lot of people decided not to buy it .
16 Following completion of his second successful landing of the day at 15:00 hours , officials made the decision not to risk any further deliveries on April 7 .
17 In October 1966 , however , one year after the decision not to take up the option on the book , David V. Picker at UA bought the movie rights .
18 It said it could n't understand why the British Amateur Weight Lifter 's Association had reached the decision not to take action against the two weighlifters .
19 Only do-it-ourself and textiles showed a fall-off caused by a reduced textiles range and the decision not to take part in the DIY price war .
20 The City Take-over Panel , which has to give its blessing to the ending of the contract , could take a dim view of the decision not to proceed with a formal bid .
21 Organisers Editions Larivière says it made the decision not to proceed ‘ for its own reasons ’ .
22 The decision not to proceed with the plant follows a court ruling that the plans contravened an EC directive and that construction should not proceed without an environmental impact assessment .
23 Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's education spokesman , earlier failed to convince the committee that the decision not to include Mr John MacGregor , the Education Secretary , on the committee was treating parliamentary procedures with contempt .
24 The lack of a rear input is a serious drawback , but the company tell me that considerations of space ( where they 'd put this socket , heaven knows ) and cost were uppermost in the decision not to include it .
25 The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time .
26 Defence Council , Richard Ferguson Q C , has taken the decision not to put Terry Marsh in the witness box and to start preparing his closing speech to the jury .
27 Miss Goddard urged that the decision not to serve the notice was correct in view of the complexity of the whole investigation .
28 ‘ We agree with the decision not to define sexual assault specifically .
29 The decision not to renew the contract with the landlords Hill Samuel was taken in the light of rising costs and declining sales .
30 Grampian Enterprise defended the decision not to renew funding , insisting the help and advice on offer to ex-servicemen would not be undermined .
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