Example sentences of "[to-vb] a decision " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 2 | It was agreed by a single vote to defer a decision until consultations with clubs booked for weekend activities until the middle of December . |
| 3 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 4 | So the medical profession , in the future as in the past , must bear the responsibility unless it is possible to obtain a decision from the courts . |
| 5 | To award damages , on the other hand , is in a sense to substitute a decision for that of the public authority . |
| 6 | It was emphasised yesterday that Mr Parkinson has yet to reach a decision . |
| 7 | The Portuguese authorities had promised to hear Ferrari 's appeal against the fine next Wednesday , after which the FIA , the international automobile federation , was due to reach a decision on Ferrari 's appeal over Mansell 's ban from the Spanish Grand Prix which was staged on 1 October . |
| 8 | The jury hearing the suit was unable to reach a decision and although the six-month trial was reported in England it did not destroy his reputation . |
| 9 | But before deciding not to co-operate , you should bear in mind that this could mean the company has to reach a decision on the basis of inadequate information . |
| 10 | In the early years of his premiership he was very sharp , though , as Iain Macleod recalled , ‘ he could be maddeningly discursive — it was nothing to reach a decision on an enquiry into rating via the Greek Wars and Parnell ’ . |
| 11 | These are matters about which the auditors will ultimately have to reach a decision . |
| 12 | ‘ We were n't getting anywhere and the ANC said they were still to reach a decision . |
| 13 | After his death at the hands of a Skaven assassin in 1152 the Elector Counts failed to reach a decision as to who should be the new Emperor . |
| 14 | The Council of Ministers will now have to reach a decision by qualified majority on this controversial measure . |
| 15 | James F. Byrnes , the American Secretary of State , visited London in November 1945 and told the British Prime Minister it was imperative to reach a decision rapidly on the future of Korea . |
| 16 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 17 | In addition , bail may also be denied if the court thinks it necessary for the defendant 's own protection , if there has been insufficient time to enable the court to obtain enough information to reach a decision , or if the defendant has previously failed to answer to bail . |
| 18 | The duty referred to in section 9(2) is to reach a decision on the evidence , not by what Watkins L.J . |
| 19 | On the other hand , it is my opinion that when a decision-making body is called upon to reach a decision which arises out of the relationship between two persons or firms , only one of whom is directly under the control of the decision-making body , and it is apparent that the decision will be likely to affect the second person adversely , then as a general proposition the decision-making body does owe some duty of fairness to that second person , which , in appropriate circumstances , may well include a duty to allow him to make representations before reaching the decision . |
| 20 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 21 | Decision-makers need information to help them to reach a decision . |
| 22 | Pressed against a window , she bullied herself to reach a decision . |
| 23 | This makes it difficult to reach a decision , and causes a nagging worry as to whether the right system has been selected . |
| 24 | I am therefore surprised to hear the hon. Member for Ogmore express concern at our reluctance to reach a decision until the European Court of Justice makes its pronouncement . |
| 25 | Although he was acquitted on one count of assault and another of filing a false police report , the jury had been unable to reach a decision on the charge that Powell had abused his authority through the use of excessive force . |
| 26 | The jury , which had begun deliberating on Aug. 20 , had been unable to reach a decision on any of the nine criminal charges against him . |
| 27 | Only on one count , against Powell , was the jury unable to reach a decision and a mistrial declared ; Powell 's retrial on that specific charge was due to start on Oct. 19 . |
| 28 | The council of research ministers is expected to reach a decision by the beginning of June . |
| 29 | Then they appeared to reach a decision and walked back to the Land Rover . |
| 30 | But as with every planning inquiry , hearing or whatever , we need not to avoid closing the discussion before we have all the information we need to reach a decision whichever way we decide to reach it . |