Example sentences of "[noun prp] decide [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Black Shandy failed but GBS made a tidy living selling nuts and snacks until PTGI decided to develop a closer trading relationship with it last year and to manage more directly the retail distribution of the FES brand .
2 Corbett decided to ignore the sarcastic tone and refused to be drawn .
3 Corbett decided to press the point .
4 The fisheries council meeting in Brussels decided to take no immediate steps to curb imports and rejected a French demand for a 30 per cent increase on minimum import charges .
5 By the end of that month Raybestos decided to abandon the Knockanemore dump ‘ in the interests of community harmony ’ .
6 Gritting his teeth against this insolence , needing to know more , Edward decided to try a more direct approach .
7 Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times .
8 Dustin was doing so badly that Nichols decided to allow the actor time to learn his lines and then redo the test .
9 She and David decided to catch the bus down into Florence and then try for a taxi home .
10 President Bush had announced to the US Congress on Jan. 15 his decision to release US$42,500,000 in military aid to El Salvador , on the grounds that guerrillas of the FMLN had failed to comply with certain conditions laid down in October 1990 , when the United States decided to withhold the aid [ see p. 37770 ] .
11 In the early 1970s the United States decided to construct a large naval and air base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia .
12 Top hair stylist Guy Kremer decided to thin the fringe and re-shape his close crop .
13 After a nightmare trip to a hairdresser , Susan Newby decided to make the salon pay for its mistakes
14 After the Second World War , for example , the photographer Alexander Liberman decided to visit the studios of artists who had contributed to a century of painting in France , painters and sculptors closely connected with the School of Paris .
15 There were less than three minutes to go and referee Brian Hill decided to call a halt — with a little help from Wilkins .
16 As credits proliferated , the EPA decided to establish a banking or brokerage network through local governments for selling the credits from one firm to another , with the result that Louisville , San Francisco and Seattle initiated banking programmes .
17 THE COARSENESS OF THE MEN AROUND HIM AND THE ANTAGONISM of feminists made Nigel decide to adopt a more cynical pose .
18 Thus , for example , in response to the ‘ threat ’ posed by the American satellite news channel CNN , M. Dodelinger decided to create a European challenge : Euronews .
19 So Giles decided to make an all-day excursion to a place on the other side of the mountains , about ten miles away .
20 On April 30 , 1990 , leaders of the PRPB decided to dissolve the party and replace it with a new party to be known as the Union of the Forces of Progress ( UFP ) to contest the legislative elections due in February 1991 .
21 Finally the Ashleys decided to combat the problem of non-paying wholesale customers by themselves buying a London shop .
22 Léonie decided to reserve the pleasure of baiting Madeleine for later .
23 Nkrumah decided to order the immediate airlift of two of the army 's three battalions to Leopoldville to give muscle to the UN who , meanwhile , had established a mission in the Congo .
24 That is why the European Summit in Maastricht last December decided to clarify the situation .
25 It was into such a landscape that a foreign alien culture stepped in AD 43 when Claudius decided to send the Roman army into Britain .
26 The threat to their continued existence increased when IBM decided to produce the 64M-bit chip in the US rather than Germany .
27 The Dragoons had taken several prisoners and the Covenanters decided to intercept the soldiers and free the captives .
28 Note that with effect from July 1989 , the Bank of England decided to discontinue the publication of statistics for M1 and M3 .
29 As he was going to be passing the post office on his way to his favourite restaurant Sandison decided to post the letter himself .
30 Over the centuries this painting acquired a reputation for being miraculous , although in an ill-defined way , so that in 1413 Duke Filippo Maria Visconti decided to build a church to house the work and shelter it from the weather .
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