Example sentences of "decided [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you withdraw money using your card in a currency other than sterling , your account , will be debited in sterling and the conversion into sterling will be at a rate of exchange decided or authorised by the Bank . |
| 2 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 3 | They decided that packed lunches should be standard-rated from 1 July . |
| 4 | I decided that the best thing to do was to go home . |
| 5 | The station cafe was still open so I decided that I might as well go in there . |
| 6 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
| 7 | However , once Kathleen had taken her decision about her own future , she decided that the risk had become worth taking . |
| 8 | I decided that they simply would n't have understood why I 'd done this and would now feel too hurt and abused ever to want to see me again . |
| 9 | He decided that after all England was n't what she seemed . |
| 10 | Having spent much of the glorious summer last year sitting in the shade of the apple tree I decided that if such summers were to continue it would be a good idea to build a permanent seat around the tree . |
| 11 | Government decided that the whole of the railway freight business should pay its way . |
| 12 | The poem itself he found ‘ a pompous parade of erudition ’ , and he decided that ‘ were it not for the Laforgue mechanism , Mr Eliot s poetic variations on the theme of a super-refined futility would be increasingly thin and incredibly second rate ’ ( The Freeman , 17 January 1923 ) . |
| 13 | He went to the US because ‘ Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be ’ . |
| 14 | Emboldened by its example , Hong Kong 's Legislative Councillors decided that not less than half their number should be directly elected in 1995 , and the rest 10 years later ; they later scaled the first figure down to 40 per cent , to win the suport of more conservative interest groups . |
| 15 | This year , shocked by the 3-4 June massacre , Mr Lo decided that Hong Kong was ready for a quicker pace of democracy . |
| 16 | RENEE HENRY remembers quite clearly when she decided that she was going to live . |
| 17 | The tribunal decided that a payment to be made under s 106 was ‘ pay ’ within article 119 of the EEC Treaty and , therefore , the Employment Secretary was liable to pay a payment . |
| 18 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 19 | But on escaping from Wales to study music at Goldsmith 's College in London under the auspices of Aaron Copland , Cale decided that ‘ the best thing for a classical musician in London at that time was to get involved in avant-garde . |
| 20 | The local authority decided that it would not be possible to rehabilitate the child with her natural parents and that her welfare required that her future lay elsewhere . |
| 21 | In the Lonrho case , the Law Lords in effect decided that the Secretary of State had no duty to give reasons for his decision not to refer the takeover of Harrods by the Al-Fayeds to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 22 | The Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , said yesterday that no formal pledge was given to the rebels but US troops were moved into place on both roads on Tuesday morning , ready to intervene if Washington decided that they should . |
| 23 | He decided that the company was justified and that the nature of the disease was irrelevant . |
| 24 | They decided that , in addition to the traditional , and largely vain , efforts to curb drug production , there is an urgent need to step up the offensive from the other end of the drugs trail . |
| 25 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 26 | Given this stark choice , the jury decided that the policeman had been deceitful rather than that the woman had been ‘ wicked and false ’ in her evidence . |
| 27 | Sources close to the talks say he ‘ decided that the people backing him did not have the interests of the club at heart ’ . |
| 28 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 29 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 30 | According to the itinerary Wednesday was a rest day but after a half-hearted attempt at browsing around the Keswick shops we decided that the call of the fells was too strong to resist and headed for the Langdales . |