Example sentences of "a decision was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , however , defensiveness won the day and when the Strathclyde Centre circulated forces asking them to co-operate in the venture , a decision was taken to withhold co-operation and a circular went round to this effect , suggesting the existing Home Office funded PRSU ( Police Research Services Unit ) and the Home Office Research and Planning Unit were adequate for the needs of the service . |
| 2 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |
| 3 | ‘ Nevertheless , it was not until September 18 that a decision was made that a section 105 investigation should be recommended by the Minister and the submissions to that effect did no reach him until October 13 , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 4 | A decision was also taken , early on , to deal through a middleman who was a fabricator . |
| 5 | A decision was made not to prosecute , ostensibly on the grounds that there was no evidence of any offence , except possibly one of receiving indecent material through the post , and Hayman escaped with a caution . |
| 6 | They submitted their final report together with recommendations to him two months ago and last night , Foreign Office officials said a decision was expected soon . |
| 7 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 8 | A decision was taken , therefore , to hold an autumn meeting in 1993 at Warwick University . |
| 9 | Such renovation was not possible until some years later when the property was transferred to the Ministry of Works — which later became part of the Department of the Environment — and a decision was reached to restore the Villa to its original proportions , i.e , without the wings which had been added by Wyatt . |
| 10 | thereafter ; in Chiswick a decision was made , in the late summer of 1938 , to dig into the grassed area of Turnham Green , between Christ Church and the War Memorial , in order to provide Air Raid Shelters for public use . |
| 11 | Then , in late 1966/early 1967 , the membership was closed and a part-time Assistant for the Secretary engaged , and at last , a decision was made to repay the Brewery £500 of its loan ! |
| 12 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 13 | A decision was taken to use bus technology in producing a body to be mounted on the trucks that had already been designed by the Department and were operating successfully . |
| 14 | Although many potential customers may only require parts of the information system , a decision was made that only complete systems could be sold . |
| 15 | A new harmonium was bought for £7-0-0 and in January 1871 a decision was taken to expel several unruly and ill-behaved boys . |
| 16 | A decision was at first postponed but permission was granted later in the year . |
| 17 | Therefore a decision was taken to investigate only the scanning undertaken by corporate planning departments and deliberately to exclude the business divisions and the chief executive . |
| 18 | Eva had become eccentric : when a decision was needed Ted and I often had to wait while she retired upstairs and meditated on the exact shape of the conservatory or the dimensions of the kitchen . |
| 19 | A decision was taken unanimously by the presbytery to support and assist the Reverend Morris Mackenzie ; to share some of the burden of his parish duties , and to make life easier for him . |
| 20 | The battle took place on a Saturday , 14 October : because the armies were so evenly matched and the ground so difficult it lasted eight hours , a great time in a world where a decision was usually reached in just over two hours . |
| 21 | A decision was expected yesterday but , in a brief statement , chairman Reg Smart said : ‘ We are giving everything a lot of consideration . |
| 22 | In addition , a decision was made during 1962 to launch an English language daily . |
| 23 | Finally , after weeks of debating the merits , advantages and availability of this or that young daughter , a decision was made to send the searching woman , Um Hamed 's first lieutenant , who would investigate two possibilities more thoroughly . |
| 24 | Mr McFarlane said a ‘ temporary ’ jetty , built to allow large pieces of plant to be delivered to the site , would not be dismantled before a decision was made on the C station . |
| 25 | ‘ A decision was made , they had to raise money and that was it . |
| 26 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 27 | At the time a decision was made at the highest political level , with help from the mighty KGB chief Yury Andropov . |
| 28 | A decision was made in favour of the former option and again a similar trend of events to that in Banstead could be detected . |
| 29 | At a recent SAG board meeting a decision was taken to cut all development projects in an attempt to consolidate resources . |
| 30 | The question of whether a decision was ‘ legal or not ’ is sometimes put in terms of whether it was made ‘ within or without jurisdiction ’ or whether it is ‘ intra vires or ultra vires ’ ( that is , literally , ‘ within or beyond power ’ ) . |