Example sentences of "is [to-vb] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Copy of a letter sent to all parents of pupils at Juniper Green Primary School stating the school is to receive a Schools Curriculum Award 1990 .
2 Toronto-based Unitel Communications Inc is to open a telecommunications centre in Winnipeg , Manitoba , by the end of the year , creating 400 jobs : the telemarketing and customer services centre will join the ones in Kamloops , British Columbia and in Edmundston , New Brunswick .
3 One of the major methods of achieving a regional economic bloc is to create a Customs Union ( CU ) .
4 The simplest example of redundancy is to imagine a personnel record held in a computer system .
5 There are many ways of estimating the quality of the benefit at the end of the plan but one simple one is to calculate an earnings ratio , given by the interest earned over the total sum — which is best expressed as a percentage .
6 A common method is to operate a points system where the operative is awarded points related , for example , to his trade , position and length of service .
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