Example sentences of "decision [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the planning sphere it has been used to invalidate conditions attached to planning permission such as that the developer should construct an ancillary road over the frontage of the site at his own expense to which rights of passage should be given to others , and that a property developer should allow those on a council housing list to occupy the houses with security of tenure for 10 years.u The test has also been adopted in the context of industrial relations , though in this instance the decision attacked was upheld . |
| 2 | A third way in which the courts have moved from considerations of procedural form to substance , is by interpreting the concept of fairness as allowing them to consider , in a general sense , whether the decision reached was fair and reasonable . |
| 3 | The decision is discussed more fully below , but it is of importance in the present context because the House of Lords explicitly disapproved of statements made in the Court of Appeal that a court could exercise a general power to consider whether the decision reached was fair and reasonable . |
| 4 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 5 | People had been condemned without any rights to attend the tribunals , to have legal representation , to judicial review , or even to know why decisions had been taken against them . |
| 6 | However , all serious historians have noted that the 1925 decisions had been merely a formality , more honoured in the breach than in their application . |
| 7 | Management was , however , not satisfied that decisions had been really ‘ pushed down ’ into the high-performance teams , and was concerned that production pressures had overridden their concern with group autonomy . |
| 8 | Thus there was no House of Commons scrutiny of public expenditure and virtually no understanding of how the decisions had been reached . |
| 9 | The Central Committee plenum , which met on 19–20 September 1989 , approved the Platform with minor changes and more generally sought to define the party 's line in an area in which its decisions had been inadequate and for the most part purely reactive . |
| 10 | Everyone else thought the decisions had been made but in fact we totally re-did that season 's collection in a waiting room at Brussels airport , just the two of us . ’ |
| 11 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 12 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 13 | He said that no decisions had been reached on any of the ‘ scare stories ’ which had appeared in the Press . |
| 14 | Although no final decisions had been taken by March 1990 , the plans under discussion included the closure of several European bases and the possible halving of the 305,000 US troops currently stationed in Western Europe by 1994 [ see below for defence budget proposals ] . |
| 15 | The Ostankino company had agreed to pay the costs of transmission to the other CIS members for the first quarter of 1992 , but no decisions had been reached on covering the costs for the rest of the year . |
| 16 | Commenting on the prosecution 's agreement to let Drogoul change his plea to innocent , Shoob stated that decisions had been made " at the top levels of the United States Justice Department , Agriculture Department and within the intelligence community to shape this case , and that information may have been withheld from local prosecutors seeking to investigate the case " . |
| 17 | Even now , however , no decisions had been taken on the speed of emancipation or the form it should take . |
| 18 | She told a London press conference that a raft of decisions had been announced and a tight timetable set up for future reforms , designed to prevent the spiral of decline predicted in the report if action were not taken . |
| 19 | He said more precise figures would not be available until decisions had been taken on the form of restoration . |
| 20 | But officials said last night no decisions had been reached as part of Government plans to provide 200 secure places for young criminals . |
| 21 | But Mr Lang emphasised no decisions had been taken . |
| 22 | Because the name was put in the Press early , before any irrevocable decisions had been made , and people there at that centre got their act together . |
| 23 | Harvey said later that he thought the decision had been harsh and added that there had been no warning given about time-wasting before the game , although he accepted that Tyson could have mentioned it to the players during the match , a fact confirmed by the referee as he left the ground . |
| 24 | Mr Hrawi said no decision had been taken yet for a military showdown . |
| 25 | Mr Hrawi said no decision had been taken yet for a military showdown . |
| 26 | But he said that his only concern was to establish whether Mr Ridley 's decision had been in accordance with the law . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some time during the muzzy fug of these dissipations , a decision had been reached . |
| 29 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |
| 30 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |