21.   We have seen that each system was forced to delay making a decision about the identity of a stretch of sound.

22.   Indeed, HARPY, HWIM and HEARSAY-II did not make final decisions about hypotheses until the end of the utterance.

23.   If we delay making a decision about an interpretation we can allow later, high-scoring information to pull up the score of the earlier element.

24.   The main reason for the backwards trace is that decisions about the optimal labelling on the forward pass might prove to be local maxima.

25.   In particular it highlighted the necessity of delaying decisions about interpretations at the word level, due to ambiguities in labelling and segmenting.

26.   A final decision about segmentation would not be made until at least some words had been integrated into a higher level.

27.   The teacher should also make certain decisions about the arrangement of furniture in the room.

28.   Finally, a comparison essay always involves a decision about how to organise the comparison.

29.   But the writer could equally have made different decisions about what should be treated as given and what should be presented as new.

30.   But decisions about exactly when to use each type of punctuation vary from writer to writer.