Example sentences of "decided [conj] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Some twenty years ago , as a very young and inexperienced social worker , I and some colleagues working in a social services team decided that we would run a bereavement group . |
| 3 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 4 | After about a year , and with a paid-up membership of about fifteen men and five women , we decided that we would try to organize our own disco at the town hall Assembly Rooms . |
| 5 | We decided that we would like to spend much of our available time in the far north , beyond the Arctic Circle so , taking turns at driving and stopping only for fuel and occasional snacks , we thrashed on up the ‘ spine ’ of Norway through spectacular mountain scenery to Trondheim . |
| 6 | He decided that we would start the next day , Thursday , at 9 a.m . |
| 7 | We decided that we would charge £195 plus VAT plus disbursements , whether the client is buying or selling , whether the property is freehold or leasehold , worth £10,000 or £10 million . ’ |
| 8 | Erm well we decided that we would have to erm try and live more simply erm that was the only way that er erm this would work . |
| 9 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |
| 10 | Yes , but we decided that we would ask them what , they could offer us first , or what they wanted , that is . |
| 11 | And we we really decided that we would be much better not having all the hassle and just all joining or joining another club . |
| 12 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 13 | It was after you decided that we 'd have to cancel our bookings for Venice next March because of the exchange rate . |
| 14 | " We get on very well with our neighbours , " Michael explained , " and we decided that we 'd like to be able to look into each other 's gardens . |
| 15 | so erm , we decided that we 'd have this fish and chips before we got going , cos it we did n't eat , you know , an awful lot yesterday |
| 16 | We when we got the song first and recorded we we were talking one day and we were just saying it would be an ideal song for Children in Need you know so we decided that we 'd er donate all the proceeds from this track on the video and album and the concert in Stockport , it 's tomorrow night is n't it ? |
| 17 | He decided that they would not . |
| 18 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 19 | It was at this moment that the Danzig dockers union , inspired as much by anti-Polish sentiment as by fellow feeling for Soviet brother-workers , decided that they would no longer handle supplies and munitions destined for Poland . |
| 20 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 21 | To settle this , they decided that they would have to improve the detector still more . |
| 22 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 23 | In response to these events , the monetary authorities of countries other than the USA decided that they would no longer intervene to stabilize their exchange rates against the dollar , since this would have meant their accumulating large quantities of dollars for which ( a ) the exchange value was uncertain , and ( b ) the option of convertibility into gold at a fixed price had been terminated . |
| 24 | Harry and Fleury conferred about this problem and decided that they would club together and see if they could afford to buy some hermetically sealed provisions when there was an auction , though with the prices that food fetched now in private barter they were not very hopeful . |
| 25 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 26 | Five hundred thousand of our members took part in that particular ballot four hundred and fifty thousand of our members decided that they would support a political fund it was the first awakening , in my opinion , since nineteen forty five of the political views of ordinary trade union members . |
| 27 | Some decided that they would not pay the poll tax , but the people about whom I worry are those such as the elderly lady suffering from a form of senile dementia who came to me because she was being harassed about the poll tax . |
| 28 | The Government with British Coal decided that they would get an independent consultant 's report to study how the mine could be put up for licence — whether under the consortium or under private ownership . |
| 29 | They decided that they would give as much cash to people in their native Dublin as possible during filming . |
| 30 | On May 3 all seven registered political parties decided that they would not participate in the proposed assembly , in view of the Military Council 's determination to continue the suspension of political activity . |