Example sentences of "it is [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind the difficulty that you may have had even in locating a book on the shelves in your room , imagine what a formidable task it is to arrange hundreds of thousands of books in a college library in such a way that each reader can quickly find a particular book or publication on a particular topic . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 6 | The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children |
| 7 | The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children . |
| 8 | It is to supply 98 generating sets using some parts designed and manufactured by Dale at its UK plants in Scarborough , including the recently introduced Dale 6400 control panels . |
| 9 | A concise way of illustrating it is to consider two questions . |