Example sentences of "decided to change the " in BNC.
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| 1 | King George V had been very grieved at the outbreak of the Great War , which he would have liked to avoid , but Britain 's commitment to Belgium made that impossible , and in 1917 he decided to change the royal ‘ House ’ name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor . |
| 2 | The huge expansion began in the early 1960s , when the federal government decided to change the whole character of higher education in Germany . |
| 3 | She sighed , realizing that Ace would n't be swayed , and decided to change the subject for the sake of peace . |
| 4 | The Coal Board decided to change the work organisation in order to introduce new coal-cutting equipment capable of cutting a long stretch of wall at a time . |
| 5 | When she again took up Between in 1967 she decided to change the gender of the main character from male to female and ‘ it suddenly worked ’ ( 1990c:32 ) . |
| 6 | She paused and decided to change the subject . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Slovak National Council ( parliament ) on March 1 decided to change the title of the Slovak Socialist Republic to the Slovak Republic . |
| 9 | The parent company has recently changed hands and decided to change the existing Wimpy into a Burger King . |
| 10 | It was not a pleasant thought , and she decided to change the subject . |
| 11 | She decided to change the subject . |
| 12 | Fed up with nothing going right , he finally decided to change the house number to 11A in the belief that the bad luck was due to the ill-fated number 13 . |