Example sentences of "it is [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian . |
| 3 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 4 | One successful way of going about it is to invite parents into school one class at a time to hear of the plans that the school has made . |
| 5 | The convention is organized by eminent literary critics and support staff include ‘ interpreters ’ whose job it is to facilitate relations between the characters as well as ensuring the smooth running of the convention generally . |
| 6 | It appears to be easier to categorize users than it is to assign levels to books . |
| 7 | For southern observers , a good way to find it is to join Canopus to Rigel by an imaginary line ; this will cross Columba and Lepus . |
| 8 | It is , it is to support unions like the U D M and encourage scab unions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 11 | Accordingly , a bidder which is a newly-incorporated or re-registered public company to be used as a vehicle for the takeover should be careful not to contravene s104 if it is to acquire shares in the target from its own subscribers or members ( eg in a management buy-out ) . |
| 12 | January 1989 : The consultants report that the DLO 's deficit will in fact be £7-5m — and if , as the law requires , it is to earn 5% on capital , 600 people will have to be sacked . |
| 13 | If the book does have one central purpose it is to shed light upon the process of the changing system of higher education in Britain , and if it reaches one clear conclusion it is that both Oxford and Cambridge have performed admirably in recent years . |
| 14 | For England and Pakistan to have contested the World Cup final was a marvellous bonus for those whose job it is to sell tickets in advance . |
| 15 | And , it just shows you how easy it is to leave signs for the thief to tell him that we 're out . |
| 16 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 17 | Co-ordination , if it is to take place at all , is also most likely to be instigated by the clearinghouses ; but ideally it ought to take place between the library associations , if for no other reason than that they can provide financial support to arrange the necessary meetings of coordinating committees . |
| 18 | How solemn it is to take sides with the enemies of Christ . |
| 19 | What a thrill it is to see England against South Africa on 14th November , as the first match and , at the same time , not to have ticket availability restricted to two per club . |
| 20 | Rechem believes the results to be unscientific , and under the new agreement will be able to append its own commentary to the council 's existing document , especially if it is to form part of a submission to the European Commission . |
| 21 | If it is to form part of science , an hypothesis must be falsifiable . |
| 22 | Master Peachey has told me of the succession and how important it is to unite nations through contracts of marriage . ’ |
| 23 | If you cross out some words and subsequently wish to restore them , the accepted way of doing it is to put dots underneath the words so deleted and to write ‘ stet ’ in the margin . |
| 24 | If it is to put pressure on broadminded intellectuals to persuade their leaders to change their policies , it is having the opposite effect , and is causing them to support the nationalist government . |
| 25 | In general terms it is to restrict access to judicial review . |
| 26 | AS sales of bottled water continue to rise in areas of Bangor , the Department of the Environment has announced it is to re-line pipes in one of the areas worst affected by poor quality mains water . |
| 27 | It is to include research into the techniques of sustainable timber extraction and the pharmaceutical and genetic potential of the South American country 's forest resources , centred on a newly-established scientific reserve of 3,400 square kilometres , close to the Brazilian border . |
| 28 | An Outreach scheme has been devised which divides the parish into six areas , each manned by teams of church members whose job it is to identify ways in which they can provide help and report back to the church . |
| 29 | It is to prevent circuity of action , inasmuch as if the released debtor were still liable to an action for contribution by his co-debtor ( who had been sued and had paid ) , he would not in fact be released : North v. Wakefield , 13 Q.B . |
| 30 | According to both the coal industry and the National Wildlife Federation , the government will as a result be forced to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars if it is to prevent strip-mining on protected lands . |