Example sentences of "decision [vb past] been make " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , a major policy decision had been made , or was forced upon , the District . |
| 3 | The Director of Education for the county walked down the stairs with me after the decision had been made , and told me that ( of course ) I would be expected to pay early attention to the reorganization of the whole of secondary education in Banbury . |
| 4 | Hayling , who was now working closely with Pilger , sensed the Manchester decision had been made in advance by the Founders , and assembled a team of journalists to explain what was wrong with it . |
| 5 | The decision had been made , somehow , and her feelings had been overruled . |
| 6 | But social services chairman Peter Maxwell said last week the decision had been made before the council drew up its policy on gay and lesbian foster parents . |
| 7 | A clinical decision had been made in the 1960s that this hospital should serve elderly people , while the other two hospitals would care for acute admissions and the ‘ chronic ’ long-stay population . |
| 8 | Not because she was undecided ; the decision had been made . |
| 9 | By Summer 1964 the decision had been made to extend Doctor Who 's life by another season , which meant having a new series ready to start screening by the autumn of that year . |
| 10 | Already a decision had been made , sometime in 1964 , to hive ‘ Planet of Giants ’ and ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ off from the first season — in whose block they had been recorded — and to graft them as openers to the second season , thus giving the overworked Production Office a bit of a breather . |
| 11 | In the second appeal the committee said that the decision had been made in the light of the admission criteria and that they felt ‘ unable ’ to override section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 12 | The decision had been made now , though . |
| 13 | Even in that early part of the siege a decision had been made that you were all going to die . |
| 14 | It pointed out : ’ no overt decision had been made to phase out geriatric wards ; the practice grew as health authorities saw the opportunity to transfer costs to the budget of another Government Department by transferring one aspect of care to the voluntary and private sector . |
| 15 | A Washington Post report of Oct. 9 , 1989 , quoted US administration officials as saying that a decision had been made during an unusually secretive policy review that the USA would continue to produce chemical weapons over a 10-year phaseout period after the conclusion of an international treaty to ban the weapons ( see negotiations above ) . |
| 16 | The US authorities claimed that the decision to evacuate Peace Corps workers had been taken on the basis of general intelligence concerning NPA intentions , and that Swanson 's abduction had only become known after the decision had been made . |
| 17 | A similar decision had been made in respect of Uttar Pradesh by the time the poll date was announced in April [ see also above for Haryana ] . |
| 18 | Pöhl said that his decision had been made to give himself more time for his family and private interests and was prompted by " neither resignation nor frustration " . |
| 19 | The government stated that the decision had been made in order to prevent the spiral of drug-related violence which had eventually persuaded the Colombian government to end extradition [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 38332 ] . |
| 20 | Leszek Balcerowicz , the Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister , announced on Aug. 5 that he would resign after the parliamentary elections planned for October , saying that his decision had been made for family reasons . |
| 21 | A Housing Executive spokeswoman said no final decision had been made about the case . |
| 22 | Mr Saleh said the decision had been made against a background of years of heavy losses and ‘ unrealistic ’ demands for the reinstatement of 343 sacked workers . |
| 23 | Mrs Bell said the company had received many letters from pensioners who understood why the decision had been made . |
| 24 | He said the difficult decision had been made in the interest of his public relations business . |
| 25 | However , the SPOA general secretary , Bill Goodall , said no final decision had been made on the unit 's future . |