Example sentences of "decided [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dudley spent some seven years of obscurity until Elizabeth 1 once again forgave him , when in 1585 she decided to support the Dutch against the Spanish , and placed Dudley in command . |
| 2 | With the disappearance of the old order Salisbury decided to support the Republic . |
| 3 | Finally the Ashleys decided to combat the problem of non-paying wholesale customers by themselves buying a London shop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After the Lords 's report was published , ministers decided to implement the 1975 Reservoirs Act , which had lain on the statute hook for eight years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Very much on the British initiative , and spurred by fears of economic decline , in the mid-1980s the EC countries decided to implement the provisions of the Treaty of Rome concerning the internal market by 1992 . |
| 8 | She knew Doyle would do his best to protect her but what if they decided to search the place anyway ? |
| 9 | While all this was going on , the police had made several arrests , and the Department of Trade and Industry decided to interview the 16 witnesses all over again . |
| 10 | Comfort tried on all the clothes and decided to wear the black suit . |
| 11 | As a result , one of the enterprises decided to sue the government for compensation . |
| 12 | Several US journalists decided to sue the US government for infringing their liberties , claiming that the restrictions reflected more the military 's belief that free reporting during the Vietnam war had turned US citizens against the war , than concern for security . |
| 13 | But that did n't satisfy Mr Major when he decided to sue the New Statesman and Scallyway for their reports . |
| 14 | They decided to sue the farm for negligence and today they won an historic test case at the County Court in Swindon . |
| 15 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 16 | After becoming a painter in his turn , Laurent decided to continue the Babar series , publishing his own first book in 1946 . |
| 17 | However , despite these controls and a general reduction in the proportion of local-government expenditure emanating from central government ( down from over 60 per cent of spending in the 1970s to well under 50 per cent in the following decade ) the Conservative governments elected in 1983 and 1987 decided to continue the process . |
| 18 | When the time came to launch a leading brand of canned pork and beans in the Canadian market , the advertising company decided to continue the campaign that had worked successfully in other English-speaking areas , and retained the name Big John 's . |
| 19 | Upon getting airborne , Crocker decided to continue the trip which meant flying with two feet on the left rudder pedal in order to keep the aircraft straight , for the whole flight at a reduced speed of 150mph . |
| 20 | He decided to continue the charade of not speaking German . |
| 21 | They decided to compare the money earned by the inventors of the Polaroid instant camera , the Catseye road stud , and the ring-pull can , with the reward reaped by Armstrong . |
| 22 | Having established that the 140k DNA binding domain recognized the HSV-1 IE-3 promoter binding site , we decided to compare the binding specificities of the HSV-1 Vmw175 and VZV 140k proteins . |
| 23 | The Jamaican Director of Public Prosecutions decided to discontinue the proceedings so that the defendant could again be charged with murder . |
| 24 | in whom the power to discontinue any criminal proceedings at any stage before judgment is delivered is vested by section 94(3) ( c ) of the Constitution of Jamaica , considered that the plea of guilty to manslaughter should not have been accepted and decided to discontinue the proceedings in this case in order that the defendant might be charged with the murder on a fresh indictment . |
| 25 | Note that with effect from July 1989 , the Bank of England decided to discontinue the publication of statistics for M1 and M3 . |
| 26 | Even before these upsets , Arizona was in the political dog house because its voters decided to cancel the Martin Luther King holiday . |
| 27 | Marx , at No. 13 with Take This Heart , admitted : ‘ I decided to cancel the show because it was pouring with rain and I knew I could be electrocuted . |
| 28 | As he was going to be passing the post office on his way to his favourite restaurant Sandison decided to post the letter himself . |
| 29 | He decided to treat the movie as a learning experience . |
| 30 | We decided to treat the patient with combination chemotherapy ( MOPP =mitoxin , vincristine , procarbazine , and prednisolone ) . |