Example sentences of "decided that [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After much sniffing and swishing , the judges decided that the best drink was a Perry , produced by a small cider maker from Dymock in Gloucestershire . |
| 2 | I decided that the best course of action was to do my turning first , followed by the seat , then the shaped components and finally jointing and assembly . |
| 3 | At one point a group of us decided that the best way to stop being hassled about separatism was to publish instalments of the CLIT papers in the weekly newsletter , which was mailed to women all over London and beyond . |
| 4 | ‘ I decided that the best way to show what was possible was to build scaled-down , working models , ’ said Ken . |
| 5 | At about this point Philip and his advisers decided that the best way to preserve the crown for Frederick — in view of the failure of the regency council to control the princes — was for Philip to take it himself until his nephew came of age . |
| 6 | Feeling that little was to be gained by personal protest either to the BBC or through their local MP to Parliament , they decided that the best approach was to issue a Manifesto . |
| 7 | ‘ We decided that the best approach was to minimise the risk and come up with a way of assessing the quality of the reservoir as we drilled ’ says Mitchell . |
| 8 | The committee decided that the best site was in Thomas ' Close in the south-west of Bedford and off the Ampthill Road ; the land belonged to the Duke of Bedford . |
| 9 | Considering there was no one to look after her at Lomond View , I decided that the best place for her was with me . ’ |
| 10 | I decided that the best thing to do was to go home . |
| 11 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
| 12 | He decided that the best thing for him to do was to leave as soon as possible , before other people arrived and the situation became very complicated . |
| 13 | Fleury was not sure that his own teeth were very sound either so they decided that the best thing to do was to suck the cakes and perhaps dip them in the tea to soften them . |
| 14 | We decided that the best thing to do was to hide the bicycles and the panniers separately — which was sensible — and then take refuge with the prisoners beyond the embankment until the storm was over — which was not . |
| 15 | She decided that the best means to this end was to learn Re 's secret name and thereby transfer his power to herself . |
| 16 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |
| 17 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 18 | The women 's editor of the Tollemarche Advent , having found nothing about Ben MacLean in the office files , decided that the quickest source of information regarding Tollemarche 's first author would probably be Mr Pascall , the bookseller . |