Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] decided [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , even as he took over from Mr Krenz , he was speculating that he might soon lose his job if the East German parliament decided to replace the Council of State with an executive president . |
| 2 | The Jamaican Director of Public Prosecutions decided to discontinue the proceedings so that the defendant could again be charged with murder . |
| 3 | Micro Focus decided to implement the object-oriented paradigm in a product that will have many of the features of the completed standard and that will become fully ANSI-compliant when the standard emerges . |
| 4 | The management at Swindon College of Further Education decided to give the alarms free after the woman was raped in a classroom . |
| 5 | ‘ Old Joshua decided to use the site of an Iron-Age settlement when he built his new home , ’ said Penry , and pointed out an unhewn standing stone at the edge of the cliff . |
| 6 | But as the next chapter will try to demonstrate , the feeling that the relationship had been seriously weakened — and perhaps even jeopardized — did not occur until the Americans became deeply involved in the Vietnam War and the British government decided to abandon the defence role East of Suez . |
| 7 | Priests in some parishes decided to drop the ceremony altogether , rather than comply with the ban against women 's participation . |
| 8 | His call for Strathclyde councillors to reject cuts and stand for re-election if the Scottish Office decided to cap the region 's budget was rejected by Labour . |
| 9 | Recognizing the efficacy of the quality improvement process also known as total quality management , many leading Japanese companies decided to apply the concepts . |
| 10 | On the applicant 's application for habeas corpus , the Divisional Court decided to allow the application . |
| 11 | Two weeks later the municipal council decided to accept the recovery plan , which included more than 1,000 redundancies , thereby unblocking the new loan . |
| 12 | Youth organizations were making rapid progress , and it was not long before the National Executive decided to re-organize the Labour League of Youth . |
| 13 | It 's as if , instead of turning towards metal , early '80s hardcore decided to drop the politics for the personal and pursue some semblance of catchiness . |
| 14 | The mother of the present Earl decided to include the Rembrandt among other works of art retained when the contents of the family 's English country house , Mentmore Towers , went under Sotheby 's hammer in 1977 . |
| 15 | After some enquiries from Peter Thomas , who at that time was in the process of forming the Skyfame Aircraft Museum at Staverton , Glos , the Swedish company decided to donate the Firefly to the Museum , providing that sufficient funds could be raised to finance the flight from Sweden to England . |
| 16 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
| 17 | In the 1950s , the flourishing Society decided to add the acquisition of art and antiquities to its activities , and began an omnivorous phase , accepting and pursuing works that had virtually no connection with its founders ' goals . |
| 18 | And once at the beginning , when the first few coins were exchanged , the first kings decided to mint the stuff , I daresay that was true . |
| 19 | ‘ The sensible conclusion is that our secret assassin decided to remove the danger just in case . ’ |
| 20 | The newly elected Conservative government decided to reduce the extent of designated areas , through a programme of phased withdrawals , over the following three years ( see Townsend 1980 ) . |
| 21 | The Czech government decided to delay the placing of orders for shares until after March 15 , 1992 . |
| 22 | In 1980 the Ministry for the Walloon Region decided to reopen the site with assistance of the Centre for Archaeological Research of Liège University . |
| 23 | Agosti still faced charges of involvement in the 1976 coup which overthrew President María Estela ( Isabelita ) de Martínez Perón [ see pp. 27741-43 ] , but military trials had been effectively suspended in April 1989 when the Supreme Court decided to examine the documentation pertaining to all cases involving military officers accused of human rights abuses in 1976-83 . |
| 24 | In 1986 when young activists decided to revive the six Gaza unions , the leaders were arrested and the unions temporarily closed down . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans . |
| 26 | The band was originally formed way back in the early 1900's under the name of Milltown Flute Band , but shortly after its inauguration the band 's conductor and founder member , John Millar , died and the other members decided to change the name of the band in his memory . |
| 27 | The huge expansion began in the early 1960s , when the federal government decided to change the whole character of higher education in Germany . |
| 28 | The new government decided to use the existing legal framework to save the time and possible difficulties that new laws might bring about , hut with certain modifications . |
| 29 | A confrontation developed and the aggrieved boy decided to take the matter to the headmaster . |
| 30 | That is why the European Summit in Maastricht last December decided to clarify the situation . |