Example sentences of "be to close [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way would be to close eight of the counties smaller libraries like this one in Matson , just outside Gloucester . |
| 2 | RATNERS , the jewellery chain whose profits plunged after its boss branded one of its lines ‘ total crap ’ , announced yesterday it is to close 180 shops . |
| 3 | The German government is to close five Soviet built nuclear power reactors in what was East Germany because officials think they are very unsafe and too costly to adapt . |
| 4 | JAPAN 'S second largest car maker , Nissan Motors , has announced it is to close one of its main passenger car factories in Japan and shed 5,000 of its Japanese workforce by 1996 in a bid to restore the company to profitability . |
| 5 | Sears is to dispose of its menswear division and , as part of its reorganisation of the British Shoe Corporation , the company is to close 350 shops and make 1,800 redundancies over the next three years . |
| 6 | National Westminster is to close 35 of its 90 branches in London 's West End . |
| 7 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 8 | The second was to close one hospital and transfer as many of its patients as possible into community facilities , resettling those who could not be so placed into the other , retained and upgraded hospital . |
| 9 | Their intention was to close 31 pits immediately , and leave a coal industry of about 20 pits and opencast at its present level . |