Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] decide " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it were possible for you to decide that one of these options , one to eight , were to suit your regular and usual purposes at these meetings for general discussion then that obviously would be both a saving in erm time and labour and is one of the reasons why one installs computerized equipment so that you do n't er then have to do it all manually as well . |
| 2 | I very much doubt , though it is unnecessary for me to decide the point , that the use of the plural in paragraph 12 was intended to connote different defendants in several different unconsolidated actions , since there was only one single action in being in the Kalfelis case , and paragraph 13 ( not quoted above ) would seem to envisage a claim by the same plaintiff , unlike the present litigation where there are a very large number of different plaintiff banks in different actions . |
| 3 | It was easier for him to decide what was not true . |
| 4 | The National Childbirth Trust produces a book called Breastfeeding A Toddler , which recounts several women 's stories , some of whom decided to continue breastfeeding , and some who decided to stop . |
| 5 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 6 | Until some of them decided that |
| 7 | Some of us decided to attend the much-advertised bull fight scheduled to commence at 3pm in the Plaza del Toro . |
| 8 | Some of us decided to get into the social and talk to the men . |
| 9 | ‘ But , on the other hand , probably very few of them decide on a whim to spend their entire capital on a shop in a strange city in a country they know nothing about , without doing the most elementary homework . |
| 10 | ‘ Is n't it rather presumptuous of you to decide what he needs ? ’ he asked curiously . |
| 11 | Two of us decided in favour of The Sunday Times and against Mrs Thatcher , and those two did n't give a damn for Mrs Thatcher , we each of us decided it was a matter of principle , knowing that we were bound to be criticised , whatever we did , and we decided it , and there 's an end of it . |
| 12 | It is a pity not because sociology can not become like physics or , indeed , become a science — it is far too early for us to decide about either of these and related questions — but because sociology looked outside itself in order to discover the appropriate model of science to follow and , as it happened , it looked toward philosophical versions of science rather than to the practices of the sciences themselves . |
| 13 | It is unlikely to be easy for them to decide , on their working-class pupils ' behalf , that personal fulfilment derives solely from their inner selves and their environment , unrelated to questions of higher social status and improved working and leisure conditions . |
| 14 | It is very easy for you to decide to be magnanimous . |
| 15 | In this case , it is not unusual for them to decide to get another dog to keep their first dog company , and this is where the problems can arise — especially if the second dog is younger , or of a more submissive character . |
| 16 | ‘ If either of you decide that you have more to tell me , you know where to find me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Then perhaps we ought to get you back to Faye 's , before either of us decides — ’ He broke off , took a ragged breath and did n't finish . |
| 18 | He 'd met Elaine on several trips around the island which Christina had arranged , including a hilarious afternoon when the three of them decided to try out the hotel 's water sports and attempted to learn to water-ski after too many rum sours at the Reef Bar . |
| 19 | No one can sack us , no one can take our pensions away , in Spycatcher three of us decided in favour of Mrs Thatcher and against the editor of The Sunday Times , and those three of us did n't care a damn for the editor of The Sunday Times . |
| 20 | One night three of us decided to go to the cinema . |
| 21 | Er they were banking on the fact that there 'd be problems for other countries because of , you know , public perception etcetera , you know the French had decided almost all of them decided they 'd have a nuclear programme anyway so , so , so they were er o okay . |
| 22 | The local constituency officers got new people and could plan how and when to use them — and later many of them decided they 'd like to go on working with their new friends . |
| 23 | Even the TEC 's have spotted this deficiency , many of them deciding to shun it altogether . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , faced with price increases of up to 25 per cent , many of us decided we could live without champagne . |
| 25 | ‘ Thanks , ’ she muttered , but had no time at all in which to decide if she should nip to the cloakroom and get to work with her comb , for Jimmy 's next remarks were to have her reeling — and furious . |
| 26 | Usually they merely rob their victims ; this time , for some unknown reason , one of them decides — or ispersuaded by the victim himself — to kill . |
| 27 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 28 | She could never bear to watch her brothers fight , least of all when one of them decided to give Patsy a pasting . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're going to torture you , ’ one of them decided . |
| 30 | How much would you like in the event of a heart attack or a stroke , it 's very difficult for them to decide . |