Example sentences of "decided [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Tribunal decided that the mental condition was attributable to service and allowed the Appeal . |
| 32 | Even Geoffrey Fisher decided that he was eccentric . |
| 33 | He decided that for him to sit back and imagine , to follow a Bensonian way and be a dilettante among refined ideas , was an actual temptation . |
| 34 | Afterwards he decided that his intense preoccupation with politics and the Liberal Party had not represented his true conviction . |
| 35 | Farrer decided that he was a born don . |
| 36 | Ramsey thought this an injustice ; he decided that his bishop was vague and naïve in his theology , someone who took up new ideas with enthusiasm and with very little precision of thought ; and yet he saw that the bishop disliked controversy and was hurt by it , and thought him to be a friend and a man of prayer . |
| 37 | He decided that this clergyman was in the clouds and out of the reach of the common man . |
| 38 | He decided that they would not . |
| 39 | ( Notice the change which the Durham professorship , and Joan 's coming , wrought — in 1940 no one could conceive of this absent-minded man as a bishop , and six or seven years later the electors to the see of Edinburgh mulled over his name and decided that it would not do , and five years after that both archbishops and the prime minister 's office were agreed that he would be a very good bishop . ) |
| 40 | They decided that it could only be because Joan 's health was so poor in the fens that the professor was forced to move . |
| 41 | Garbett decided that no one after himself ought to be made to live in a château like Bishopthorpe . |
| 42 | The British Cabinet committee , meeting on 14 November , turned down the US idea , proposing instead a 50–50 division of frequency of traffic on the North Atlantic ; but the following day it decided that the fifth freedom should be accepted , subject to safeguards . |
| 43 | Anita encouraged him to go and decided that while he was away , running a shop would be a less demanding occupation than working all hours in a restaurant . |
| 44 | Here Marx and Engels decided that the understanding of man depends on the understanding of men in society and history , not on understanding philosophical controversy Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations , 1857–8 The next work of Marx and Engels , after The German Ideology , to discuss the history of human society was The Communist Manifesto of 1848 . |
| 45 | It was on the basis of this kind of observation that Morgan decided that there once existed in Polynesia a social order when sexual relations within one generation were so unspecific that all men of the ascending generation were ‘ fathers ’ and all women of the ascending generation were ‘ mothers ’ . |
| 46 | Still , it sobered us a bit , and after we had taken several more shots we decided that we needed some sleep , to try to get our minds back in gear . |
| 47 | It is all up to you — and I decided that I was never going to say anything to her because I had done it all on my own . |
| 48 | Looking at the branched hanging lamp of teak and smoky glass , the velvet curtains and the big colour television set , Wexford decided that Hatton had done his wife proud . |
| 49 | From the start , the participants decided that firm agreements should be made in advance in writing . |
| 50 | Mr Scaife decided that Mr Saunders , now unemployed , had deliberately deprived himself of cash resources . |
| 51 | ‘ We thought about the format , ’ said David Llewellyn , ‘ and we decided that the rule for the day was to keep two balls in play off the tee . |
| 52 | The federal government decided that exports of vegetables were contributing to the soaring inflation rate , and banned them . |
| 53 | ‘ John Aldridge and I , who live in the same village , decided that we would try to print our own designs by the roll from our own blocks . |
| 54 | THE simultaneous publication by national newspapers of a common code of practice and declaration of principles was postponed last night after the chairman and editors of Express Newspapers decided that they needed more time to examine the proposals . |
| 55 | Coventry decided that it would cost more to contest the claim than pay it ; so Clarkson will get £74 for the party 's four tickets and travelling expenses . |
| 56 | This was the day when I decided that I 'd had enough . |
| 57 | IT SEEMS appropriate to end the Eighties with the band that decided that this decade was quite enough . |
| 58 | The business was put up for auction two months ago when Whitbread decided that its spirits operation , including brands such as Long John Scotch , Laphroaig malt whisky , Burrough 's mixed doubles and Beefeater gin , was too small to compete with the giants of the industry like Grand Metropolitan 's IDV , Guinness ' United Distillers and Allied-Lyons ' Hiram Walker Allied Vintners . |
| 59 | They decided that her objections to adoption were not unreasonable and dismissed an appeal by the local authority against a county court judge 's rejection of its adoption proposal on the grounds that it was premature . |
| 60 | But is it also realistic to assume that the West might tolerate it if Mr Gorbachev decided that the Romanian people , not unlike the people of Panama , deserve to enjoy democracy , and that the Soviet Union should send some of its military across the border to dispose of the Ceausescu family and their killer Securitas forces ? |