Example sentences of "is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 2 | There is a pseudo-sophistication in our understanding of sexuality and its relation to human actions , for we have not grasped how very difficult it is to cope with all its manifestations . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , we need to consider what problems might arise and make provision accordingly , accepting that such provision should be very flexible if it is to cope with the range of need presented by the disabled . |
| 4 | We can not afford to have failures in a health system which needs to use every hospital and every health care worker if it is to cope with the demands of the twenty first century . |
| 5 | These criticisms seem valid and if NAB is to cope successfully with its daunting task of planning public sector higher education and negotiating with the University Grants Committee , then it would benefit from having more academic expertise and more representation from industry and the professions . |
| 6 | The Society 's motto is to serve law and justice ( ‘ Leges Juraque Servamus ’ ) and the mainstream work of many of its committees is to cope with literally hundreds of Government proposals for changes in the law . |
| 7 | The reason that that B one insertion has been made is to cope with the use classes order change . |
| 8 | His biggest problem , of course , is to cope with demand . |
| 9 | He also demonstrates how hard it is to maintain this view , and how easy it is to lapse into logocentric assumptions . |
| 10 | The present Labour MP in Barnsley West , Allen McKay , is to retire before the next general election . |
| 11 | TREVOR HOHNS , the Queensland leg-spinner and member of Australia 's Ashes-winning side this summer , is to retire . |
| 12 | Sam Whitbread , chairman of Whitbread since 1984 , is to retire in July 1992 and will be replaced by Sir Michael Angus , chairman of Unilever . |
| 13 | Ford of America stressed yesterday that there would be no ‘ significant ’ changes in the way the company was run after announcing that Mr Donald Petersen , chairman for the past decade , is to retire . |
| 14 | RUGBY LEAGUE : John Joyner , Castleford 's veteran back row forward who made his Great Britain debut against Australia in 1978 , is to retire at the end of the season , writes John Whalley . |
| 15 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler , plans to study in the United States for a career as an airline pilot after confirming yesterday that he is to retire from first-class cricket , as reported in Monday 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 16 | R. Knowland , CChem , FRSC , is to retire as managing director of British Petroleum . |
| 17 | Mr. J.G.S. Gammell is to retire from the Board following the Annual General Meeting after 36 years of service . |
| 18 | Janet Jones , secretary of the British Tennis Umpires Association , is to retire from the post at the end of this year . |
| 19 | For those who might be interested in switching , perhaps because a major aim is to retire before age 60 , you should know that whereas until recently insurance companies were virtually the only outlet for buying individual pension plans , today these are also available from banks , building societies , unit trusts and friendly societies . |
| 20 | Electricity generator PowerGen Plc said Sir Graham Day is to retire as its chairman and that Sir Colin Southgate , chairman and chief executive of Thorn EMI Plc , will succeed him ; Sir Colin has been a non-executive director of PowerGen since the firm was created in 1990 . |
| 21 | A PARISH council clerk is to retire in three months time after five years service . |
| 22 | SIMON WILLIS is the new director of Motability , succeeding KEN KEEN who is to retire in June . |
| 23 | DR HOWARD Cromie is to retire from the active ministry in May after 31 years in Railway Street Presbyterian Church , Lisburn . |
| 24 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , who at one time rejected an appeal against the conviction of the Birmingham Six , is to retire and be replaced by Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 25 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 26 | A COURT of Appeal Judge who cheated death in an IRA bomb explosion six years ago is to retire this week . |
| 27 | JACK Johnson , general secretary of the Club and Institute Union who is to retire in October . |
| 28 | RUGBY UNION : David Sole , who led Scotland to the Grand Slam in 1990 , is to retire later this year . |
| 29 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
| 30 | THE SENIOR Strathclyde education official who faced calls for his dismissal after linking ‘ genetic factors ’ to the school performance of black and Asian children is to retire early on Friday . |