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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Hrawi said no decision had been taken yet for a military showdown . |
| 6 | Mr Hrawi said no decision had been taken yet for a military showdown . |
| 7 | But he said that his only concern was to establish whether Mr Ridley 's decision had been in accordance with the law . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some time during the muzzy fug of these dissipations , a decision had been reached . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , a major policy decision had been made , or was forced upon , the District . |
| 13 | A complicating factor in all this was that despite the opposition of the Eastern District Council , expressed both before and after the decision had been taken , Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board resolved in December 1955 to withdraw its resident tutors from some of the counties it served . |
| 14 | Mr Whistle knew what his decision had been . |
| 15 | Part of the parents ' case had rested on the following argument : within the school which the child attended a decision had been taken to include her in a remedial class ; thus , the special educational provision that should be made for her had already been determined ; so a statement ( under section 7(1) of the Act ) should follow . |
| 16 | Once the decision had been taken , no time was wasted in defining the areas of the city to be dealt with and in actually measuring the ground , for Haussmann 's first task was to draw up a plan of Paris measured to an exact scale . |
| 17 | The Director of Education for the county walked down the stairs with me after the decision had been made , and told me that ( of course ) I would be expected to pay early attention to the reorganization of the whole of secondary education in Banbury . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | By then , the critical decision had been taken to restrict the flow of refugee children into Britain . |
| 21 | The decision had been taken , the statement said , ‘ for personal reasons ’ . |
| 22 | Some kind of decision had been reached . |
| 23 | Even by April 1973 , when the final decision had been taken , it still weighed heavily on Jackie : so much so that he finally sought advice from an Anglican priest and prayed God to give him enlightenment . |
| 24 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 25 | For a long time , he continued , the Crown authorities had paid no attention to ‘ this clamour ’ but then a decision had been taken to recommend a free pardon . |
| 26 | ‘ She made it clear no decision had been taken and she was going to look at the Tomlinson Report with a totally objective view , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |
| 28 | Managing director Derek Walklin said the decision had been taken following a review of staff . |
| 29 | Hayling , who was now working closely with Pilger , sensed the Manchester decision had been made in advance by the Founders , and assembled a team of journalists to explain what was wrong with it . |
| 30 | The decision had been made , somehow , and her feelings had been overruled . |