Example sentences of "[noun sg] decide for [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was mentally competent and she had the capacity to decide for herself . |
| 2 | Scotland is now effectively trapped inside a political union that denies Scottish voters the right to decide for themselves how they are governed and by whom they are governed . |
| 3 | Under Part 1 of the Bill ( Clauses 1–19 ) , trade union members are given the right to decide for themselves which union they will join ; the right to a fully postal ballot , independently scrutinised before a strike ; protection against fraud and abuse in trade union elections ; and protection against the mismanagement of their union 's finances . |
| 4 | In the House on 20 November , I said that there must be a provision giving the United Kingdom the right to decide for ourselves whether or not to move to stage 3 . |
| 5 | If every generation has the right to decide for itself how it should be governed , then it can not be legitimate for one generation to will away that right on behalf of its successors . |
| 6 | An adult whose mental capacity is unimpaired has the right to decide for herself whether she will or will not receive medical or surgical treatment , even in circumstances where she is likely or even certain to die in the absence of treatment . |
| 7 | Many and varied reasons have been put forward for this basic element of practice , but they can be summarized under three headings : ideological reasons ( the right of a person to decide for himself or the recognition of this as an existential reality ) , educational and developmental reasons ( participation as part of human growth and development , for the individual , the family , the group , the organization or the community ) , and political reasons ( participation as a means to enfranchisement and empowerment , an antidote to alienation ) ( Ross , 1960 ; Bernstein , 1960 ; Katan , 1980 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; Rothman , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |
| 9 | Local audiences could have a chance to decide for themselves later this year , with the band hopeful of slotting Irish dates into their itinerary . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean you 're not even going to give your mother the chance to decide for herself ? ’ |
| 11 | Such matters are left to the members of each firm to decide for themselves . |
| 12 | The disarming , though understandable , conclusion of the Society is that it is a matter for each individual firm to decide for itself just how its goodwill should be valued . |
| 13 | Being able to land safely in fields should be one of the ultimate aims in glider pilot training and it should not be left to the pilot to decide for himself when he is competent to fly across country . |
| 14 | But , where it 's a proposal that seems to call for persuasion , should n't we be thinking of letting the inhabitants of the city decide for themselves ? |
| 15 | Secondly , and much more importantly , politicians , industrialists and the powerful in general , must realise that you can persuade people that risks are acceptable , only when they have enough information to decide for themselves . |
| 16 | They are the values of physical autonomy and freedom from molestation , the liberty to decide for oneself the level of pain to subject one 's body to ( e.g. in sport ) . |
| 17 | What has changed above all over the century is the view of what is possible for the individual to decide for herself . |
| 18 | But there is no reason for the Community to get involved in employment legislation , which must be for each country to decide for itself . |
| 19 | What right has anybody , other than the members in that section deciding for themselves who represents them ? |