Example sentences of "decided [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in 1972 , when I was twenty-five , that I decided that something had to be done . |
| 2 | When Telford Development Corporation began to coppice the woodland for conservation purposes , a group of countryside wardens , foresters and a lecturer in 3D-design got together and decided that something should be done with the waste timber . |
| 3 | At the end of the war the Buckinghams decided that something had to be done ; not Mrs Buckingham , who was still repining , but Harriet 's vast web of paternal relations . |
| 4 | Ticking off items on a mental list , Ashley decided that everything which might be needed for the weekend had been packed . |
| 5 | The business was put up for auction two months ago when Whitbread decided that its spirits operation , including brands such as Long John Scotch , Laphroaig malt whisky , Burrough 's mixed doubles and Beefeater gin , was too small to compete with the giants of the industry like Grand Metropolitan 's IDV , Guinness ' United Distillers and Allied-Lyons ' Hiram Walker Allied Vintners . |
| 6 | AN IMPOVERISHED African country ( the name changes according to where you hear the story ) decided that its agriculture needed a shot in the arm . |
| 7 | Although the accounts were concise , the print was too small , and because of some confusion over the treatment of the initial endowment under covenant , the judges later decided that its turnover was over the £1m maximum for the category . |
| 8 | The UUAC decided that its only effective recourse was a general strike . |
| 9 | York seems to have hesitated over raising men , probably for this reason since it decided that its contingent should wear the city 's badge until they reached Pontefract , and then Gloucester 's as well . |
| 10 | West German participation in the European fighter aircraft ( EFA or Eurofighter ) project with the UK , Italy and Spain ( see pp. 36106 ; 36429-30 ) , already resisted by the opposition Social Democrats , came under further political pressure when in mid-January 1990 the Free Democrat Party executive decided that its platform in the December 1990 elections should include withdrawal from the project . |
| 11 | Reviewing the latest research on the greenhouse effect , the working group confirmed its previous conclusions that average global temperatures would rise by between 0.2 and 0.5 degrees centigrade per decade , but decided that its previous " best guess " of a 0.3 degree rise might be too high , and that it could take until 2030 , rather than 2025 , for global temperatures to rise by a full degree . |
| 12 | York seems to have hesitated over raising men , probably for this reason since it decided that its contingent should wear the city 's badge until they reached Pontefract , and then Gloucester 's as well . |
| 13 | It confirmed its previous conclusions that average global temperatures would rise by between 0.2 and 0.5 degrees centigrade per decade , but decided that its previous " best guess " of a 0.3 degree rise might be a little too high , and that it could take until 2030 , rather than 2025 , for temperatures to rise by a full degree . |
| 14 | Eventually I decided that what was needed was a little organisation — a systematic approach to make my busy life a little less fraught . |
| 15 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 16 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 17 | She decided that what she felt was panic , the terror of being trapped not in too small but in too large a space , where too much could happen and go beyond control . |
| 18 | Recovering from her immediate mini-breakdown , Dawn decided that what she had regarded as comfortably dull marriage had become comfortably boring for Tim . |
| 19 | I decided that what was urgently required was a method and content which did n't place either the problem or the expertise ‘ out there ’ , which helped teachers to share and analyse their own experience , define their problems and priorities , identify their own routes to solutions . |
| 20 | I decided that what with the big human-sacrifice convention in town , the cultists would be too busy to post any of the grade-A guards , and that the job would fall to Sleepy Joe and the Catnap Kid . |
| 21 | and were very happy with their computerised telephone , and decided that what Hallery House needed next was a front of house package which would be equally helpful to both themselves and their guests , and take the hard work out of record keeping and marketing . |
| 22 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |
| 23 | They decided that her objections to adoption were not unreasonable and dismissed an appeal by the local authority against a county court judge 's rejection of its adoption proposal on the grounds that it was premature . |
| 24 | Hari decided that her mother must be told the truth , as she had pointed out , there was nothing wrong with her mind . |
| 25 | Retreating until she bumped into a Spanish walnut table that stood before a window , she put her arms back to lean on the table , then decided that her position might look inviting , folded her arms , and scowled at Sam . |
| 26 | She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death . |
| 27 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal decided that her original conviction was wrong . |
| 29 | Louisa 's parents decided that their daughter had been murdered . |
| 30 | In the case of the snail and its fluke parasites , we decided that their preferred shell thicknesses were divergent . |