Example sentences of "decided [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Micro Focus decided to implement the object-oriented paradigm in a product that will have many of the features of the completed standard and that will become fully ANSI-compliant when the standard emerges . |
| 2 | Comfort tried on all the clothes and decided to wear the black suit . |
| 3 | But that did n't satisfy Mr Major when he decided to sue the New Statesman and Scallyway for their reports . |
| 4 | Having established that the 140k DNA binding domain recognized the HSV-1 IE-3 promoter binding site , we decided to compare the binding specificities of the HSV-1 Vmw175 and VZV 140k proteins . |
| 5 | Some of us decided to attend the much-advertised bull fight scheduled to commence at 3pm in the Plaza del Toro . |
| 6 | Mortified by the twist in his sobriety , George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society . |
| 7 | They decided to try the Commemorative Hall . |
| 8 | Then , fairly close to transmission , Verity Lambert decided to tighten the dramatic structure of ‘ Planet of Giants ’ by truncating it from four episodes to three . |
| 9 | Oswy was probably unable to follow in detail the abstruse arguments put forward , but in the end he decided to accept the Roman practice , on the grounds that at the gates of heaven the keys are held by St Peter , and against him he would not contend . |
| 10 | The new Conservative Government after 1970 decided to accept the Select Committee on Procedure 's recommendations and a Select Committee on Expenditure of forty-nine members ( six subcommittees ) was created in 1971 . |
| 11 | Afterwards the boy 's father decided to consult the local policeman to ask his views about the affair . |
| 12 | On hearing the report of the Judge Rapporteur and the views of the Advocate General , the Court of Justice decided to open the oral procedure without any preparatory inquiry . |
| 13 | For example , she decided to decorate the main drawing room of the château in a plain , but luxurious salmon pink silk , in stark contrast to the small flowers and sprigged cotton in the other rooms , yet absolutely in keeping with the style of the house . |
| 14 | The Committee considered whether to increase the grant to Farmers World Network , but decided to allocate the full balance of this year 's budget to this post . |
| 15 | After viewing the outside and the wild , overgrown garden , they decided to explore the crumbling interior . |
| 16 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
| 17 | The ITA decided to split the Northern region into separate Lancashire and Yorkshire franchises , each of which would be large enough to support a network company , increasing the number of these to five . |
| 18 | I had never seen it other than murky before along that particular section so I decided to walk the far bank and see what I could in the swims where I had been very successful . |
| 19 | At about eleven o' clock last night she decided to walk the short distance home . |
| 20 | Hoping as always to avoid trouble , the Goldsmiths decided to require the new Schoolmaster to be examined before being appointed ; this was duly done , and Joseph Whittle , a graduate of Brasenose College , Oxford , took up his position with effect from 28th September . |
| 21 | She 'd had a colour put in last autumn which was growing out , so Chris decided to enhance the natural warmth of the hair and add additional shine using a non-commitment colour , Natural Dark Blonde , mixed with persimmon from the Colour Touch range . |
| 22 | Youth organizations were making rapid progress , and it was not long before the National Executive decided to re-organize the Labour League of Youth . |
| 23 | The Manchester United captain , the rock on which both Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson built their hopes , decided to quit the international scene after last month 's depressing win over Turkey . |
| 24 | In one way he was glad to be interrupted — superstitiously afraid that if of his own volition he decided to leave the miraculous spot then the unique mood would not follow him and he would be like a man without a shadow . |
| 25 | Surgeons in Sacramento , California , decided to use the high-tech machine after winning approval from the US Food and Drug Administration . |
| 26 | When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components : |
| 27 | Health care will then be denied its proper role and that is clearly seen in the discharge of elderly people into the community and a point he knows well because he 's heard it from me before , without the necessary disabled facilities being in place for those elderly people and it is his department that decided to put the disabled facilities grant in the basic credit allowance to compete against over local authority priorities in that section . |
| 28 | ‘ I was brought up in Nigeria , ’ he explained to the court , ‘ and when the consequences of the drought became obvious I decided to put the national interest first and perform the n'dula , a naked rain dance , on the village green . |
| 29 | Despite this relatively small cost the Reagan Administration was encouraged to seek further savings and decided to put the whole operation out to private tender ( reported in the TES , 28 October , 1982 , p.12 ) . |
| 30 | For 12 weeks they were the most famous ‘ ordinary ’ people in Britain , when the BBC decided to popularise the fly-on-the-wall documentary by discreetly invading the lives of the Wilkins and attendant boy/girlfriends and a key dustman from mum Margaret 's past . |