Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years . |
| 32 | The people I have talked to , who were skinheads during this period , show such a pride and passion for their style , that it is to do them justice that these pages are written . |
| 33 | I know that it is to do with trash and shit , and that it is wrong in time . |
| 34 | Relative to the matter in hand I take it to mean that it is to do with the budget er to prepare for this County and do not er to be the irrelevancies of machination in other places . |
| 35 | The announcement of his departure came just one day after Barclays revealed that it is to look outside the bank for a new chief executive to take over some of the powers presently held by chairman and chief executive , Andrew Buxton . |
| 36 | Some management companies , including Murray Johnstone — which recently reduced its initial charge from 5 to 1 p.c. — welcomed the Securities & Investment Board announcement this week that it is to review its rules on unit trusts . |
| 37 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG indicates that it is to follow Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA in offering Eo Corp 's Eo 440 and Eo 880 personal digital assistants — and presumably it will buy a stake in Eo too . |
| 38 | University College , Bangor , has revealed that it is to get an extra £330,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales as part of a £2.1m handout to Welsh colleges . |
| 39 | Mr Taylor must ensure a sceptical public understand that it is to obtain these securities for their less fortunate brethren that the highly-paid Premier League players have been asked to express a willingness to strike . |
| 40 | Ford has recently announced that it is to offer airbags as standard equipment on every model in its range in the UK . |
| 41 | RUSSIA has played down hopes that it is to host a superpower summit and sign a major disarmament treaty with the United States . |
| 42 | Norway has confirmed that it is to resume scientific whaling in April and commercial whaling in May or June [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 43 | The town of Bolton has just announced that it is to make its football hero , Nat Lofthouse , a freeman of the borough . |
| 44 | On Humberside , Sandtoft has recently announced that it is to make a machine-pressed plain tile for the first time . |
| 45 | Ford of Europe announced that it is to make over 10,000 job cuts by the end of 1993 , about 40% of which are expected to be in the UK . |
| 46 | Shrugging off the distressing four-day kidnapping ordeal of its president , Adobe Systems Inc , Mountain View , California has come out with a whole string of announcements , headlined by the news that it is to make the Display PostScript system available to users of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations . |
| 47 | The sting in the tail of the AS/400 announcement ( IBM never knows when to leave well enough alone ) is that it is to start making a niggling handling charge for software upgrades . |
| 48 | Recently it announced that it is to begin testing all personal computers assembled in Russia from imported components . |
| 49 | At the Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA launch last week , see front page , Unix System Labs Inc president Roel Pieper confirmed , as reported ( UX No 370 ) , that it is to adopt Veritas Software Corp 's file management system for its Destiny desktop environment . |
| 50 | TO show that it really cares about working women , the Government has announced that it is to help fund after-school childcare facilities . |
| 51 | Worrying about your weight is more likely to lead to comforting yourself with a piece of chocolate that it is to assist in burning up calories . |
| 52 | THE Bank of Scotland has announced that it is to cut the monthly rate of interest on its Classic Visa Card and Bank Mastercard from 1.8 per cent to 1.63 per cent . |
| 53 | Meanwhile , Berkeley 's Computer Science Research Group has announced that it is to end its work on BSD 4.4 following the final releases this year . |
| 54 | It is much easier to show a child how to draw , how to compose a Picture , how to use colour , than it is to allow the child full self expression . |
| 55 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 56 | We are used to thinking of ‘ femininity ’ as being something to do with women , when in fact it also represents a set of values or behaviour which are generally regarded with disapproval : to call a man ‘ effeminate ’ is generally to insult him ( rather more , perhaps , than it is to call a woman ‘ masculine ’ ) . |
| 57 | With some models , it is easier to produce a reasonable looking roll than it is to perform a truly round loop . |
| 58 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 59 | So the it should be qu easier to sort these than it is to sort those . |
| 60 | Because the majority of tiles are simply hooked on to the battens , it is easier to replace a slipped or broken tile with a new unit than it is to replace a nail-fixed tile . |