Example sentences of "[vb past] decided [that] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In announcing the government 's intention I also made it clear that my right honourable friend had decided that a similar duty should be introduced for auditors of building societies and financial service companies and that my right honourable friend the president of the board of trade would want the approach extended er to the , this approach extended to the auditors of insurance companies .
2 I suppose he thought I was not giving of my best , and as I was known as a rather shy , reserved sort , he had decided that a quiet word at an informal moment would be the best approach .
3 To supplement the work of the new drugs , Doctor Staples had decided that the phrenic nerve in his neck should be temporarily crushed .
4 He had been quite fazed by the guard-hostage situation and , feeling vulnerable , had decided that the other hostages , particularly Anderson and Jacobsen , thought him slow .
5 Prison Channing Wood was informed that , following consultations with the trial judge and Lord Lane C.J. , the Secretary of State had decided that the first review of his case by the local review committee would be in April 1995 at the nine-year point of his sentence .
6 as if at some point in their lives they had decided that the only way to survive was to retreat to a still centre in themselves .
7 Stevie , deeply troubled , had decided that the only thing was to fall in with her mood , but he kept catching Patrick 's eye .
8 If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country .
9 In 1926 breeders had managed to set some standards and formed a society , opening a herdbook for the Irish Moiled in that year , and by 1929 they had decided that the preferred colouring should be red or roan with a white dorsal line , white tail and underline and white udder .
10 Rostov guessed that Yuan had decided that the emotional shield which was provided by conversational Manchu was no longer necessary .
11 He still felt extremely nervous about what might happen once they left the warren and had decided that the best way to avoid trouble would be to keep close to Hazel and do exactly what he said .
12 In the face of his father 's protestations he had decided that the conventional path for the scholarship winner — law or medicine — was not for him ; he was going to Oxford to do History .
13 Just before the meeting delegates were delighted to hear that PHPA had decided that the main emphasis for both species of Indonesian rhinos ( Javan and Sumatran ) would be in situ conservation and that there should be no captive-breeding programme for Javan rhinos at this time , a view endorsed by the workshop .
14 She looked through my chest-of-drawers after she had decided that the grey tweed would do .
15 Without beating around the bush , Fred explained that Mr Miller had decided that the editorial staff must be reduced by one reporter , and were there any volunteers ?
16 In effect , the Government had decided that the heavy subsidy given to the readers of the Nationalist and Uhuru , who lived mostly in towns ( half the sales and probably half the readership of both newspapers were in Dar es Salaam ) should take precedence over , for example , the building of satellite radio stations to improve reception in remote areas or the provision of community listening points .
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