Example sentences of "[noun sg] had to decide " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Club had to decide , said Brower , whether to continue as a society of companions on the trail or take the position that ‘ the entire environment is the proper province of conservationists ’ . |
| 2 | Clearly management had to decide |
| 3 | The matter the judge had to decide was whether , if there were confidences , there was any legal prohibition preventing their publication . |
| 4 | In this connection I think it important to bear in mind exactly what it was that the learned trial judge had to decide . |
| 5 | The team had to decide whether the firm should invest in a computer-controlled lathe . |
| 6 | Also , when describing the work in a bookshop few of them mentioned the fact that the bookseller had to decide what books to buy for his stock and few realized how much financial expertise was needed . |
| 7 | This court had to decide in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 whether to withhold consent to abstain from giving mechanical ventilation in the interests of artificially prolonging life , whatever pain and suffering would thereby be caused to the child . |
| 8 | In Cottee v. Douglas Seaton ( Used Cars ) Ltd. ( 1972 D.C. ) the court had to decide to what extent an honest man could be guilty under the section . |
| 9 | The court had to decide whether the damage was solely as a result of the negligence of the plaintiff 's husband or whether the negligence of his workmate was also a factor . |
| 10 | A 20-year-old crusader who could live on rice , salt and chillies once a day had to decide whether she could foist that option on her kids . |
| 11 | The categories of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ were not , however , abolished , and a Local Education Authority had to decide whether it wished a middle school to be ‘ deemed ’ to be primary or secondary . |
| 12 | Why do you think the National Coal Board had to decide on these changes ? |
| 13 | In his valuable and revealing Diaries of a Cabinet Minister R. H. S. Crossman gives an account of how the Labour Cabinet of which he was a member had to decide whether to allow an oil company to build a refinery on Canvey Island in Essex . |
| 14 | On the morrow of October 1987 Black Monday the Treasury had to decide whether the stockmarket crash threatened a 1929-33 type fall in demand , and decided not to risk it . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal had to decide whether to authorize surgery on a week-old child born with Down 's syndrome and duodenal atresia . |
| 16 | In Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 this House had to decide whether the jurisdiction of the visitor was founded on membership of the university or ( as the House held ) on the fact that a separate system of law was applicable . |
| 17 | Nicholas 's son had to decide whether and to what extent he was prepared to diverge from his father 's methods . |