Example sentences of "[noun pl] decided [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the end the drinkers decided to ask the barmaid if the great hoofer was still with us . |
| 3 | The designers decided to supply the cognitive power of this machine by giving it a human . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Recognizing the efficacy of the quality improvement process also known as total quality management , many leading Japanese companies decided to apply the concepts . |
| 9 | The stewards decided to return the deposits of both Eddery and Lewis , who had appealed against Silver Wizard 's demotion . |
| 10 | Despite this admirable record , Liverpool 's directors decided to break the sequence when Mr Fagan retired in 1985 by seeking a replacement in the dressing room . |
| 11 | The Jamaican Director of Public Prosecutions decided to discontinue the proceedings so that the defendant could again be charged with murder . |
| 12 | The Hungarians decided to take the shortest line to the German wash , totally ignoring the existence of most of the rest of the field who lay between them . |
| 13 | The workers decided to investigate the carriages , to see what was amiss . |
| 14 | The participants decided to upgrade the existing agreement between the two blocs into a " third-generation " agreement providing for more extensive co-operation , and signed a four-year agreement supporting human rights which would among other things give financial assistance to El Salvador for police and armed forces training . |
| 15 | Most of these were already being worked on , but three chief officers , together with the director of purchasing and three unit general managers decided to form The X Factor Group . |
| 16 | At a meeting on 4 April , just before the fair closed , organisers decided to reduce the number of exhibitors next year to around sixty and control quality more strictly . |
| 17 | They noticed the car run wide as the defendant made a left turn and the officers decided to stop the vehicle . |
| 18 | What would be the response of the planning authority if one of the owners decided to remove the cobbles or tarmac over them ? |
| 19 | The authorities decided to take the orangs by force , and on 31 October 1991 , armed soldiers carried out a dawn raid on the house and garage — where they were met by more than a hundred students . |
| 20 | Later , his employers decided to reduce the number of staff employed . |
| 21 | During the scoring of the recall tests , it was noticed that those of the Cornell students seemed much more full than those of the community college students , and the researchers decided to analyse the two sets of results separately , instead of together , as had originally been planned . |
| 22 | To find out , the biologists decided to play the role of potential predators . |
| 23 | A swarm of midges decided to make the climb with me , enjoying the fresh blood of an Englishman . |
| 24 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 25 | In 1986 when young activists decided to revive the six Gaza unions , the leaders were arrested and the unions temporarily closed down . |
| 26 | Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale . |
| 27 | In 1988 , the American Patrons of the Vatican Museums decided to buy the rest of the valuable collection . |
| 28 | When twelve women who professed to be virgins were found , only two would swear an oath to that effect , but the executors decided to take the women 's word for it . |
| 29 | But councillors decided to give the firm another chance . |
| 30 | In January 1950 , the Americans decided to develop the hydrogen bomb . |