Example sentences of "[that] it is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danish Government has announced that it is to carry out an inquiry into the accident . |
| 2 | Norway has announced that it is to kill between 300 and 800 minke whales this year . |
| 3 | Following the announcement in January that it had suspended production of the Cambridge and Linx brands , Wharfedale has announced that it is to discontinue Linx , though it will undertake to maintain warranty and spare parts support . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock 's own union , the 1.1 million-strong Transport and General Workers ' Union , yesterday confirmed that it is to sue Mr Paddy Ashdown and six other Liberal Democrat leaders over a claim in a party newspaper that the T&G had advised members in 29 key marginals to vote Liberal Democrat rather than Labour . |
| 5 | MCVITIE 'S , part of the United Biscuits Group , announced today that it is to invest £4m in its Hungarian operation Gyori Keksz to build a crisp factory . |
| 6 | The Indian government has announced that it is to refuse further World Bank funding for the highly controversial Narmada Dam project [ see EDs 61 ; 64 ] . |
| 7 | IPSWICH Port Authority announced yesterday that it is to shed ‘ in the region of ’ 35 jobs because of the recession . |
| 8 | One suspects that it is to demonstrate what the attractions of the famous Museum Island will be when the plan favoured by the Berlin museums supremo Dube but hotly contested by many museum professionals comes to fruition , for Dube has decided that the island is to be dedicated entirely to these archaeological collections , while the fine arts all move over to the western side of the city to more modern museums . |
| 9 | With Rank Xerox having just announced that it is to set up its European research centre in the region in the autumn and the Euronews satellite channel destined for the area , Rhone-Alpes is maintaining its momentum . |
| 10 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 11 | Gossip that Next Computer Inc might abandon its hardware business to focus on its NextStep object-oriented operating environment UX No 419 ) has proved all too valid and last week the company confirmed that it is to abandon manufacture of its workstations . |
| 12 | British Gas has announced that it is to abandon its operations in Ecuador , citing economic grounds . |
| 13 | Mitsui OSK , Japan 's second-largest shipping company , has just announced that it is to close its tokkin accounts ( short-term stockmarket-punting money ) to help pay for its capital spending . |
| 14 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 15 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 16 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |
| 17 | Sequent Computer Corp confirmed last week reports that it is to move into the multi-processor PC ‘ superserver ’ business , basing its software strategy around Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming NT operating system ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 18 | Transforming at a stroke the state of its balance sheet , Philips Electronics NV on Friday announced that it is to sell its 35% stake in the Japan-based Matsushita Electronics Corp to its partner in the venture , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd for a whopping $1,600m . |
| 19 | Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp says the Freedom 1000 and 3000 3D graphics accelerators that it is to sell on Sun Microsystems Inc platforms ( UX No 407 ) , have been designed as processor-independent units which could well end up on other CPU architectures in future , though none were mentioned specifically . |
| 20 | The ferocity of the response hurt him deeply , although he could say , ‘ I told you so ’ with ICI 's announcement that it is to split into two to enhance shareholder value . |
| 21 | The American government has recently announced that it is to spend some $18 million to wipe out the pig population of Haiti in an effort to control the virus . |
| 22 | Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I know that it is to do with trash and shit , and that it is wrong in time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |