Example sentences of "decision made [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , any decision made about the management of the company requires a consensus of a majority of shareholders . |
| 2 | A decision made in the light of wider considerations may be a better decision . |
| 3 | The expansion of the early 1970s was largely the result of the oil crisis , a strategic decision made in the face of economic blackmail by the Arab members of OPEC ( Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ) during the Yom Kippur War . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is churlish of me , after the kind remarks of the Minister , to venture to comment on what he has just said , but at the risk of being tiresome , may I point out that what I said before was that it does not follow that a decision made by the Home Secretary corresponds with the advice that he receives from the chief inspector . |
| 5 | Ships sailing to India which were not directly owned or managed by the Company were considered to be permanently chartered to the Company , but the value of the charter to the vessel 's owners and officers was determined by the port to which it was sent , and that was a decision made by the Company . |
| 6 | A single voice , if it comes from somebody sufficiently powerful , can overturn the consensus arrived at by the rest ( Sedgwick wryly ends his article by saying that the child 's name was put on the ‘ register ’ , the doctor having used his influence to overturn the decision made by the rest ) . |
| 7 | Another powerful financial weapon is the annual decision made by the government on the amount of grant to be given to local authorities to aid current expenditure . |
| 8 | " It was a political decision made by the government and not by the Federation , " Bland said . |
| 9 | In practical terms , the school librarian or teacher may not have the authority to make a final decision on the purchase of a microcomputer but it is important that s/he has some knowledge of what microcomputers can do and what criteria should be used for selection , so that the decision made by the headteacher may be influenced by the person who will ultimately control and use the microcomputer . |
| 10 | The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice . |
| 11 | Proprietors the House of Lords reversed a decision made by the Lord Chancellor , Lord Cottenham , when the latter had affirmed decrees by the Vice-Chancellor in relation to a company in which the Lord Chancellor held some shares . |
| 12 | It is not healthy for the 45 million people of England to be so dependent both economically and politically on decisions made at the centre . |
| 13 | It is important that we do not hand to our successors decisions made at the end of a dying Parliament ; we should leave them to take the decisions in future . |
| 14 | ‘ There were a lot of decisions made on the mainland — and she was not someone to be sat on . ’ |
| 15 | In his early work at least , Popper emphasizes the role of decisions made on the part of individuals and groups of individuals to accept or reject what I have called observation statements , and what Popper refers to as ‘ basic statements ’ . |
| 16 | Decisions made on the spur of the moment by so called ‘ officials ' puts unnecessary pressure on those behind the counter . |
| 17 | Secondly , the question of sufficient interest has to be judged in the light of the relevant statutory provisions — what do they say or suggest about who is to be allowed to challenge decisions made under the statute ? |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 19 | It follows that the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the tariff for each of these appellants should be quashed , and the decisions reconsidered in accordance with the procedure to which I have referred . |
| 20 | There are specialist commercial organisations who will , in exchange for an annual subscription , provide a service listing all planning applications and decisions made by the majority of local planning authorities . |
| 21 | In practice , too many governing bodies are merely ‘ rubber stamps ’ to decisions made by the headteacher and/ or a group of governors with the headteacher in the guise of ‘ subcommittees ’ . |
| 22 | Nor is this unimportant compared to the ‘ major ’ policy decisions made by the Cabinet or an assembly . |
| 23 | Decisions to terminate legal assistance under rule twenty seven are different from other decisions made within the union , because they are invariably made on the express written recommendation of a specialist in law . |
| 24 | A judge must find some other kinds of justification beyond law 's warrant , beyond any requirement of consistency with decisions made in the past , to support what he then does . |
| 25 | The next step is to offer additional techniques to give a family space to explore the way the patterns of past relationships affect the problems , and decisions made in the present . |
| 26 | Conflict : As a consequence decisions made in the boardroom — what bank to approach for loans or which underwriter to use — might be influenced by the presence and voting powers of bank directors . |