Example sentences of "decision as to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Decisions as to sex may depend in difficult cases on following a preponderance of factors and ignoring or correcting inconvenient anomalies .
2 So decisions as to venue for trial constitute another important set of pre-trial decisions for which responsibility rests largely with magistrates ( though defendants have a right to elect for trial in the Crown Court , even if the magistrates would be prepared to accept jurisdiction ) .
3 For much the same reasons we are quite satisfied that there is nothing in the Act which affects in any way the processes by which decisions as to suspension and disbarment , and so on are to be taken and promulgated through the machinery created by the Inns in 1986 with the concurrence of the judges , subject always to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges .
4 Section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 makes it clear that the decision as to release on licence is for the Home Secretary , although he is obliged to consult the judiciary .
5 This requires him to prove that if the information had been given , his decision as to treatment would have been different .
6 In the Magistrates ' Court the decision as to verdict and sentence is entirely for the Justices acting on the advice of their Clerk , and of course it is erm true to say that generally speaking Justices will follow the advice of their Clerk , but they do n't have to .
7 If the Secretary of State has considered a proposed merger and made a decision as to clearance or otherwise in respect of it a fee will also be payable even if no application for clearance has been made .
8 The very essence of the children 's hearing system is that a hearing , once it has jurisdiction in respect of a child , is empowered to examine the child 's entire social background in arriving at a decision as to disposal in the child 's best interests .
9 Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter .
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