Example sentences of "make a [adj] decision [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 On July 8 the Russian President Boris Yeltsin had announced at a press conference in Munich after talks with leaders of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38990 ] that Russia had made a political decision to withdraw an estimated 130,000 troops from the Baltic states , and that an agreement " on a schedule for the withdrawal of troops for the second half of this year and for 1993 " would be signed " soon " .
2 Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance .
3 Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise .
4 By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles .
5 He had n't made a deliberate decision to keep her out of his private and professional life .
6 Of the 15 people questioned , only one had made a positive decision to drink low-alcohol beer — to protect his liver .
7 As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 :
8 This was the line of reasoning adopted in the Takeover Panel case : the government had apparently made a conscious decision to encourage the setting up of a self-regulatory body , and the Panel operated against the background of a network of statutory provisions relevant to its activities .
9 Belinda had made a conscious decision to have a baby and felt that it was important to keep healthy by eating well and exercising during her pregnancy .
10 It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her .
11 A subordinate might therefore make a well-informed decision to win a short-term advantage when a different decision would have been preferable in the longer-term view .
12 There have been frequent and major set-backs ; and it may be that we are now on the threshold of a new era , in which , for the first time , leaders in society will make a conscious decision to allow the flood-waters in some areas to rise again .
13 Back at cell number 102 in Kirkby New Town , Fred Clasper made a momentous decision to emigrate to Australia .
14 They made a verbal decision to go earlier this month after a 48-0 home defeat by Newbridge , and no effort was made to persuade them to stay .
15 Following his advice , the company then made a disastrous decision to decline the investment opportunity .
16 Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living .
17 During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war .
18 ‘ I made a conscious decision to go out as much as possible when I had the baby , ’ she says , ‘ because I knew the walls would close in on me if I did n't .
19 Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ?
20 This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ .
21 But at a meeting of Cheshire 's Police Committee yesterday , councillors made a unanimous decision to find half of the money out of the county council 's reserves .
22 But at a meeting of Cheshire 's Police Committee yesterday , councillors made a unanimous decision to find half of the money out of the county council 's reserves .
23 Had she been making a genuine decision to refuse the treatment , it would be necessary in a case such as this to find out if the patient had received any advice as to the consequences of a refusal to accept treatment .
24 The most common cause of serious accidents on wire launches is making a snap decision to turn off for a 360° turn without ensuring that there is enough speed .
25 This criticism was also echoed by Dr Mudthir El Tinquawi the former director of Khartoum University who accused the Government of making a political decision to implement the concept of ‘ arabisation ’ in the country 's universities , while failing to provide financial support .
26 At the time my feeling was that David was making a conscious decision to become big ..
27 Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future .
28 The question of whether those taking part actually had sufficient command of BSL to make a conscious decision to withhold that form of signing is rather debatable , since virtually all those involved had difficulty with the deaf people 's signing which they had to translate .
29 If we are ever to change our habitual response to given stimuli we have to make a conscious decision to refuse to act in old automatic and unconscious patterns ; that is , to say ‘ no ’ to ingrained habits .
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