Example sentences of "to decide on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In any event , it is surely wrong , for the sake of a few weeks , to decide on the principle of the Bill by giving it a Second Reading while hon. Members still do not have the Stoner report .
2 The essential differences remain the same as last year : whaling nations such as Japan , Norway and Iceland [ which withdrew from the IWC at the start of the meeting — see ED 59/60 ] accuse those opposed to whaling on largely ethical grounds , including the UK and US , of : i ) misinterpreting the charter of the IWC , which was set up to regulate and sustain whale hunting , not to decide on the morality of whaling as such ; and ii ) interfering with the economic livelihoods of whaling communities .
3 Gloucester city council meets tonight to decide on the fate of it 's controversial plans to raise council house rents by 45 per cent and to close Gloucester law centre .
4 On each occasion I felt that insufficient effort had been made by the surgical teams to decide on the capacity to give informed consent , and I was dismayed at the immediate assumption of incapacity because the patient had been sectioned .
5 It will then be up to a care manager to decide on the level of service .
6 If it wants to decide on the level of that levy , that issue should also be left to the sector .
7 In the latter case , whether or not explicit communication takes place , each firm has to decide on the choice of action which is in its own best interest in the light of the fact that the others are behaving in the same way : we have a non-co-operative game .
8 As to the third point ( the reason why the court lacks jurisdiction to review ) , the views of Holt C.J. are supported by the passages I have already quoted from Rex v. Bishop of Ely ( inability to decide on the statutes of the college ‘ of which we are ignorant , and the construction of which has been confided to another forum ’ ) and Ex parte Buller , 1 Jur .
9 But if no decision has been taken either way , then the court should be free to decide on the merits , making the best decision for the future , though of course taking into account strategic consistency . "
10 It will be difficult to decide on the co-respondent , of course ; one does n't usually have such a rich and varied choice .
11 It is important to decide on the heading style before estimating and buying the fabric , as the heading will determine
12 It is the patient who helps to decide on the course of his care and he may be asked to help to draw up objectives of care .
13 There was a good number present and the main business of the day required the club to decide on the donations they should make to the women 's section and other charities .
14 The UN special envoy , Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Petrovsky , had paid another visit to Libya on May 10-12 [ see also p. 38883 ] , and said on May 14 that the Libyan leader Col. Moamer al Kadhafi would ask the Libyan General People 's Committee to decide on the question of the extradition of the two Libyans wanted in connection with the Lockerbie bombing — a process which Petrovsky said would take four or five weeks .
15 The Institute of Investment Management and Research ( IIMR , formerly the Society of Investment Analysts ) has set up a sub-committee under my chairmanship to decide on the calculation of an earnings figure which can be used for the per-share calculation and for price/earnings ratios .
16 It took me for ever to decide on the colour , style and material it was to be made in .
17 The judge , who took just 45 minutes to decide on the sentences , said he accepted Fraser was a drug addict who had admitted what he had done .
18 It is largely up to the banks themselves to decide on the ratio that they consider to be ‘ prudent ’ : i.e. the ratio that provides them with enough liquid assets to enable them to meet any demands for cash .
19 It must be for him to decide on the disposition of his force and the concentration of his resources on any particular crime or area .
20 It must be for him to decide on the disposition of his force and the concentration of his resources on any particular crime or area .
21 It was recognised that it was not possible to use the ballot results to decide on the continuation of the campaign .
22 This will also enable you to decide on the size of transformer needed to power them ; most transformers included in low-voltage kits can usually cope with only four or six lights , so check before you buy .
23 The designer has to decide on the size of the embedded overflow areas .
24 If you believe that women , and not planners , should be the people to decide on the size of families they have , then this is the book for you .
25 Fair enough not to decide on the phone on the basis of my say-so , but — ’ He did n't finish .
26 It gives colleges freedom to decide on the timing of assessment and the provision of resits .
27 Saying goodbye to the freedom to walk down a street on her own , to browse through the sales , to decide on the spur of the moment to visit friends , or meet for a drink in the pub .
28 An Assembly of Experts , first elected in 1982 to decide on the leadership issue , convened in emergency session the next day and elected Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei as Khomeini 's successor .
29 Tomorrow 's meeting is seen as the last opportunity to decide on the bill which would allow redevelopment to commence in 1991 .
30 But he opposed any suggestion that representatives of the environmental movement might sit on the technical committees set up to decide on the safety of any release of genetically manipulated organisms into the environment .
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