Example sentences of "[pers pn] to decide [subord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , it would be entirely up to you to decide whether that really is the best way to go about solving this problem .
2 All three send out very detailed information which should help you to decide whether open learning really is for you .
3 This will help you to decide whether you really need to read the whole book or only certain parts of it .
4 Er a a and then say , well we can take that on board for you if you like but it might be more efficient for you to do the possessions because the civil engineer Leeds , actually is part of your organization a a and it might be more appropriate for you to get those possessions in , for you to decide whether or not you want one big bang o o o of a week 's possession or , or you want to do it i in four hour no-trains periods for the next three years .
5 It is for you to decide whether or not you want to join a union .
6 If you look at the first it might help you to decide whether you like
7 Rather than stage a formal encounter using either of these groups , we leave it to you to decide if — and how — to deploy them .
8 How are we to decide whether populations living in different places belong to the same species ?
9 Doing this helps them to decide whether they can subscribe to it or not .
10 ‘ It 's in their interests to address the issue and it 's for them to decide whether change is cost effective , but it 's in our interests too . ’
11 Therapy will aim to reduce the guilt of such people by helping them to decide whether they will continue to practise oral sex , and , if so , to lessen the conflict within them by helping them accept the activity as pleasurable and human and not highly deviant .
12 There was therefore no need for them to decide whether and by what powers they could have handled the matter if they had thought that there was any merit in either of them .
13 There is no shortage of advice available to local authorities to enable them to decide whether , in uncertain circumstances , it is politic for them to seek to start proceedings , whether criminal or civil .
14 For example , when an adult asks them to decide whether two amounts are ‘ the same ’ , they may interpret this as meaning ‘ look the same ’ .
15 All DC assessors should look through these pages to enable them to decide whether or not to accept the changes proposed in the DC .
16 Robbo quite rightly got his chance and it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to fight for my place or not .
17 On the facts of this case it is not necessary for me to decide whether that view is right or wrong , and I should not decide it ; the point should be left open for full argument in a case where it is necessary to the decision .
18 I shall seek to evaluate the Maastricht proposals in the light of these different levels of loyalty to help me to decide whether what is on offer is worth supporting .
19 Although , having once decided under section 40(1) that an award was warranted , I would be required by section 41(1) to take account of any benefit the employer ‘ might reasonably be expected to derive ’ , section 40(1) requires me to decide whether the patent is of outstanding benefit , and I conclude that this entails my satisfying myself that such benefit has already been and is being achieved .
20 lt would also help me to decide whether I should go out with them . ’
21 ‘ Allow me to decide whether that is important or not , ’ he growled .
22 Thus it is a question of fact for the coroner to decide whether a death is natural or not natural and it is therefore for him to decide whether an inquest should be held .
23 The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal .
24 Regulations provide that if local planning authorities are minded to approve a proposal , but judge that it involves a material departure from the provisions of the development plan , they are required to refer the matter to the Secretary of State for him to decide whether he thinks it fit to call in the matter for his own decision .
25 He was remanded in custody to allow him to decide whether to appeal .
26 Although the primary aims of this particular study are to simply explore the concept of risk in driving and the nature of memory for driving generally , the principle aim of the thesis as a whole it to decide whether memory for driving situations is related subjective risk at the time .
27 A local authority obliged to investigate under s47 must make whatever inquiries it considers to be necessary to enable it to decide whether it should take any action to safeguard or promote the child 's welfare ( s47(1) ) .
28 In a way it functioned for us like window shopping : a random five minute slice of a feature would enable us to decide whether to see the whole thing at the Shoals , Princess or Majestic in Florence , when it resurfaced there .
29 It is not for us to decide whether or not a book is racist or obscene or seditious ; society has laid down laws to make such judgments and has conferred upon statutory bodies the power to advise and assess on such matters — however imperfect or fickle such institutions may appear in their assessments .
30 ‘ Keith hits and kicks any child playing with a toy he wants ’ is an objective description of the problem and it allows us to decide whether it should take priority over some other problem behaviour .
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