Example sentences of "to decide [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minority parties , including the Liberal Democrats , would have to decide whether to support a Queen 's Speech based on consensus politics ‘ or whether to throw us back into the melting pot of a general election ’ . |
| 2 | They believe Tom was old enough to decide whether to support it . |
| 3 | The inquiry is limited to events after 1986 , but Mr Patten appeared to be saying that it was up to the head of the inquiry , under the oversight of the Police Complaints Authority , to decide whether to extend it . |
| 4 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |
| 5 | The judge refused to grant an injunction , and said it was for the valuer to decide whether to proceed or not , and that the president of the RICS owed no duty to the parties not to make an appointment . |
| 6 | The client should be advised of this , and at the same time that it is an undesirable feature of a leasehold estate : then it 's for the client to decide whether to proceed . |
| 7 | ‘ But the matter is now with the Crown Prosecution Service , which has to decide whether to proceed . ’ |
| 8 | It was difficult to decide whether to spend more on better housing or food . |
| 9 | Those who had come by carriage had dismissed their drivers with instructions not to return until early evening and now they were stranded , having to decide whether to wait or walk . |
| 10 | Sir Nicholas has 28 days to decide whether to refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal . |
| 11 | In an unexpected move on Oct. 12 President Hastings Kamuzu Banda announced a referendum which would allow Malawians to decide whether to abandon the one-party political system in favour of a multiparty system . |
| 12 | Monaco despatched a scout to trail him at Bournemouth the following week , and they will use the next couple of days to decide whether to gamble on bringing Lambert to Europe 's gambling capital . |
| 13 | Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again . |
| 14 | It usually takes you longer to decide whether to do either A or B than just how to do A. All I have to think of is how to do A. |
| 15 | THE Attorney-General has just six days left to decide whether to ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the sentence of Harley Street rapist Dr Tom Courtney . |
| 16 | However , wherever possible , within this firm we aim to be in a position to decide whether to issue proceedings , if an acceptable offer of settlement has not been made , by the end of 12 months . |
| 17 | He looked like a particularly lethargic Newfoundland dog , trying to decide whether to obey an order . |
| 18 | Having reached the end of the second sentence , we have to decide whether to repeat what we have already written , or introduce something new as a contrast or relief . |
| 19 | It is for the hon. Member who is on his feet to decide whether to give way . |
| 20 | Now manager Denis Smith has to decide whether to risk Dziekanowski against West Ham tonight as City chase a first home win . |
| 21 | In a way it functioned for us like window shopping : a random five minute slice of a feature would enable us to decide whether to see the whole thing at the Shoals , Princess or Majestic in Florence , when it resurfaced there . |
| 22 | The WRU now has to decide whether to take its ultimate sanction and expel the 18 from membership . |
| 23 | The court also granted a stay of proceedings for three weeks after it delivers its written judgment , in a few days , for the defence to decide whether to take its appeal to the Privy Council , the highest court to which the case can go . |
| 24 | Trying to decide whether to take them down off my windows and put some poles up . |
| 25 | It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show . |
| 26 | ‘ If he does n't come , the Disciplinary Committe then has to decide whether to go ahead with the inquiry in his absence , ’ said the Jockey Club 's Sue Williams . |
| 27 | This qualification of support for the replacement of Friern and Claybury meant that it fell back upon regional officers , once again , to decide whether to go ahead with the initiative , or to abandon it . |
| 28 | If Oxo needs , defensively , to fight off Bovril 's attack , Oxo 's primary target group will be some or all of existing Oxo users : it will be a matter of agonizing argument and discussion to decide whether to go all out to keep regular , heavy Oxo users at all costs , or , instead , to concentrate on lighter — and therefore presumably more vulnerable — users . |
| 29 | For some items it might be difficult to decide whether to use approval or put a cross against an item . |
| 30 | As long ago as 1925 , when the American Victor company was trying to decide whether to use the Western Electric recording system , Victor executives complained that ‘ it did n't sound like a phonograph ’ . |