Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first there are further instructions about how the Passover is to be celebrated , who may join in , and where it is to take place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ford has recently announced that it is to offer airbags as standard equipment on every model in its range in the UK . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two days before Arrese 's Valladolid speech , France announced that it was to grant independence to its protectorate in Morocco . |
| 11 | Mancini suggests that it was to prevent Gloucester breaking sanctuary , and there are other indications that the duke was prepared to resort to force if negotiation failed . |
| 12 | Mancini suggests that it was to prevent Gloucester breaking sanctuary , and there are other indications that the duke was prepared to resort to force if negotiation failed . |
| 13 | The Iranian government accused the Saudi authorities of a " criminal conspiracy " to kill the pilgrims and charged it with " incompetence " in the construction of facilities and management of the holy sanctuaries in Mecca and Medina , announcing on July 13 that it was to file charges of murder against the Saudi government in the International Court of Justice at The Hague . |
| 14 | When this order first went out there was great alarm and feeling that it was to tax Christenings , Weddings and Burials . |
| 15 | ( The Monopolies and Mergers Commission announced in May 1990 that it was to investigate car pricing in Britain . ) |
| 16 | France had announced on Dec. 1 that it was to start research on a new generation of high-speed trains capable of 350 kmph , compared with the existing speed of 300 kmph on some routes . |
| 17 | It appears to be easier to categorize users than it is to assign levels to books . |
| 18 | It 's more expensive to manufacture things here in Bolivia than it is to buy contraband . |
| 19 | But it is n't easy to be envied , any more than it is to feel envy . |
| 20 | It 's easier to prevent the escape of the internal noise which you create in your own home , and which is liable to annoy your neighbours , than it is to prevent noise entering your house from outside or from next door . |
| 21 | It 's less usual to enjambe stanzas than it is to enjambe lines and it creates this continuous flow . |
| 22 | Before when we had our other range they were all the same price , which was wrong really because it 's a lot easier to get lavender than it is to get rose . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Just as it is easier to blame witches , agents of the Devil , for male impotence , famine , drought , war , plague and so forth than it is to blame God whom , in spite of all evidence to the contrary , we insist on regarding as a benign and even moral being . |
| 25 | Later , however , he came to realize that it was more accurate for him to say Truth is God than it was to say God is Truth . |
| 26 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 27 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 28 | Helen Gardner , for many years an Oxford luminary , did not believe that the purpose of ‘ English ’ was to turn out critics , any more than it was to produce poets and novelists . |
| 29 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 30 | Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements . |