Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [is] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Roof-bolt technology is the key to the leap in productivity that BC will need if it is to beat off the challenge from gas and imported coal and prevent the industry being reduced to a handful of pits . |
| 3 | Critical consents are those which it is essential for the purchaser to obtain if it is to conduct the business after completion . |
| 4 | So I , foolishly , welcomed the invention of the tough trail bike , designed as it is to handle exactly the kind of unmetalled forest trails and dirt tracks I had previously navigated on something the grocer 's boy in a Hovis advert would have ridden . |
| 5 | I must stress that it 's to work with you , OK ? |
| 6 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 7 | Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Recently it announced that it is to begin testing all personal computers assembled in Russia from imported components . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So it 's , if you 're overtime is at the grade C level , or the workload is at the grade C level , then you 're bet it 's cheaper to get overtime done than it is to get temps . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The main programming problems are likely to arise in the correct timing of the phase excitation changes ; the program segment responsible for the time delay between Steps must be carefully written if it is to provide accurate timing , as well as perform a useful secondary function . |
| 15 | Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good ! |
| 16 | Wholesale changes will need to be made if it is to administer a new form of tax as well . |
| 17 | The social system has certain basic needs which must be met if it is to survive . |
| 18 | They assume that society has certain basic needs or functional prerequisites which must be met if it is to survive . |
| 19 | Remember , never move as much as a muscle if the moon is out , and never speak unless it 's to answer a question put by me . ’ |
| 20 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 21 | Welcome though it is to see such friendly typecasting , we should hope that the opening up of broadcasting to more gay representation will allow for greater diversity . |
| 22 | It is as important to clarify the ethical judgments being made as it is to understand the basis for technical decisions . |
| 23 | After being on the receiving end of the challenge which brought Marsh 's late dismissal , he allowed Piatnitski to complete a night which showed the strides the home side must make if it is to re-establish itself as a European force . |
| 24 | Althusser faces this question , but warns that it has to be carefully formulated if it is to illuminate the process of the production of knowledges . |
| 25 | It should be sown where it is to grow , as it transplants badly , and thinned to 23cm ( 9in ) each way . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Consequently , we consider it our duty to indicate the correct path which the Šiptar people must follow if it is to realize its aspiration . |
| 29 | It means that the instrument in question requires positively to be approved if it is to become or , more usually , remain in force as law . |
| 30 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |