Example sentences of "decision [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 2 | As time was a most critical factor , No 4 Ferry Pool pilots at Prestwick , who had been advised of the conditions to be expected , were informed of the decision to ferry the first aircraft to Abbotsinch . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 4 | SCOTTISH companies should benefit from the decision to host the ninth Europartenariat in Glasgow later this year , Allan Stewart , the Scottish industry minister , said yesterday . |
| 5 | Later , in 449 the university and town were attacked by invading Picts and Scots , but Hengist 's victory over them , and subsequent decision to build the first Saxon town at Stamford , ensured its future . |
| 6 | The decision to postpone the Second Front , first to 1843 and then to 1944 , was deeply displeasing to the Russians , who felt they were being left to bear the brunt of the fighting against Germany . |
| 7 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 8 | This latter issue was also cited by the Japanese government as the reason for its decision to postpone the eighth round of normalization talks with North Korea , originally scheduled for July . |
| 9 | On the individual level , a decision to adopt the Second Choice , would introduce the overriding need for two new elements in human development , ( a ) , personal self-control , and ( b ) , the requirement to develop a response to the emotions which does not damage , more than can be avoided , the happiness of others . |
| 10 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 11 | Motorola Inc has put Intel Corp on the spot with its decision to price the first iterations of the PowerPC chip at $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 or more , since these are about half the prices Intel had pencilled in for its Pentium chips ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ The decision to convene the 9th emergency Congress of People 's Deputies , taken hastily and practically without any discussion , brings the country to a new level of political tensions , ’ his spokesman said . |
| 13 | The Galileans ' decision to defend the first was motivated by the perceptual experiences that accompanied their telescopic sightings of Jupiter , and Kepler 's decision to record the second was likewise based on his perceptual experiences when directing a telescope towards Mars . |
| 14 | The provision of a Frontier Station at Kensington Olympia , and the decision to site the second London terminal at King 's Cross are also of benefit . |
| 15 | This is a happy solution to the museum 's underlying financial problems exacerbated by the decision to show the first of the Memphis , Tenessee , WONDERS ( sic ) series of exhibitions , ‘ Catherine the Great ’ , which instead of making the estimated $3 million for the museum , actually lost it $1 million earlier this year . |