Example sentences of "decision [verb] been taken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a decision has been taken about liability for emotional injury one way or the other , and there can be no controversy what decision that is , then everyone should have a right that that decision be enforced until it is publicly disavowed in the same way . |
| 2 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 3 | ‘ The decision has been taken for the good of Turkish football and its players , ’ a federation spokesman said . |
| 4 | This decision has been taken in response to fears that the spur road would give rise to increased traffic flows in Duddingston Park South and the Niddrie/Bingham areas . |
| 5 | Branson himself said that he welcomed the ruling , if it accepted that the fare proposals were predatory , but that he was ‘ obviously disturbed ’ if the decision had been taken as a political move to stop Virgin applying in the US courts for remedies under the anti-trust laws . |
| 6 | Where there was evidence to show that such a decision had been taken for reasons of national security , this would be accepted to ‘ preclude judicial investigation of [ the ] particular … grievance ’ . |
| 7 | Moreover , and as a result of growing numbers in the town and in the school , a building programme had been approved to provide about 600 new places : no decision had been taken about how or where they should be deployed . |
| 8 | Herrigel said that no decision had been taken about whether the new currency would be linked to the rand or to a basket of international currencies . |
| 9 | Managing director Derek Walklin said the decision had been taken following a review of staff . |
| 10 | It was liquid-fuelled with a relatively slow reaction time ( 10 to 15 minutes ) ; and it was to be launched , like the Thors , from unprotected platforms ; but since the original decision had been taken by Sandys to develop Blue Streak , the range and accuracy of Russian missiles had greatly improved . |
| 11 | But the man said he ‘ understood ’ a decision had been taken by the leadership of the UDA/ UFF to raid the homes of RUC officers in loyalist areas and ‘ subject their wives and children to similar treatment . ’ |
| 12 | No decision had been taken in those first decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 13 | By the time Robertson sent his signal from AFHQ [ KP 103 ] on the night of 14/15 May , the decision had been taken in principle that the Cossacks in 5 Corps area should be handed over to the Soviet forces . |
| 14 | Although it was officially denied , commentators suggested that the decision had been taken in order to settle the lingering controversy surrounding the referendum of 1946 , widely believed to have been rigged by the communists , whereby the monarchy had been abolished . |
| 15 | The US State Department said that the decision had been taken in response to " positive steps " by Vietnam on the MIA issue as well as Vietnam 's continued support for the Cambodian peace plan . |
| 16 | Mr Riley said the dividend decision had been taken against a background of worldwide recession , continuing soft US insurance market conditions , contraction of London 's insurance market and falling interest rates . |