Example sentences of "took the [adj] decision " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
| 2 | I remember how he flew unhesitatingly to Peru to protest openly against the bombing of human rights organisations there — and took the personal decision that it would be , in his carefully chosen words , ‘ inappropriate ’ for him to use the special security protection he was provided with . |
| 3 | Sixty-one year old ‘ Smokin' Herb ’ Kelleher won the first round ( by substituting a Texas arm-wrestling champion who had legally changed his name to Herb Kelleher for the day ) , but 37-year old Herwald took the final decision , then announced that Southwest could continue using the slogan ‘ just to show there 's no hard feelings or to be accused of taking advantage of senior citizens ’ . |
| 4 | TI also took the unusual decision to try a one-shot approach over a short timetable , rather than the more conventional series of increasing offers . |
| 5 | Bryan , 36 , took the difficult decision to go even though his wife Hilary gave birth to their second daughter Jennifer just three weeks ago . |
| 6 | A few days later , on the morning of 3 July , in a camp at Saffuriya in Galilee another king , the King of Jerusalem , alter a night of doubt and conflicting advice , took the opposite decision . |
| 7 | They were making so little progress on the Monday that Peter Hickton took the sensible decision and dismissed most of the cast at lunchtime ; he would sit down with Michael Banks and George Birkitt all afternoon and just go through the lines . |
| 8 | Director of specialist support for New Possibilities Fay Gerrie said she took the original decision to sack Mr Reid , who has 28 years ' service at the hospital , because he was the charge nurse and therefore responsible for the villa . |
| 9 | Marketplace , an advertising agency with blue-chip clients such as Sainsburys , took the brave decision to move south of the river and bought an Edwardian warehouse in Holyrood Street , hard up against the high-level railway lines leading into the station . |
| 10 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ a close friend said . |
| 11 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ said a close friend . |
| 12 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ a close friend said . |
| 13 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 14 | Mr Parry and his wife Wendy took the painful decision to switch off their son 's life support system . |