Example sentences of "it [be] [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , British Gas has announced it 's to cut twelve hundred jobs as part of restructuring the company . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A concise way of illustrating it is to consider two questions . |
| 12 | It was to comprise five ECJ and three EFTA judges . |
| 13 | Pres presentation one and it was to last three minutes and the subject was what would I do if I won two million pounds and we recorded that er on the C C T V for later playback . |
| 14 | It was to take eight years to produce the entire series . |
| 15 | Although the Council was to have only six members , it was to receive 17 votes . |
| 16 | It was to employ 1000 people . |
| 17 | It was to hold 26 cars . |
| 18 | It was to involve 300 conservation officers of the state environmental agency IBAMA , supported by the Army 's Amazon command and by military helicopters , the government having reportedly won the co-operation of the Army by linking environmental protection with ant-drug operations . |
| 19 | When she left the centre a good hour later it was to find dozens of people in little groups strolling around the factory floor and climbing the stairs to the jig platforms . |
| 20 | It was to have two large marshalling yards to hold 700 wagons . |
| 21 | By 1705 London already had 180 departing coach services ; by 1836 it was to have 342 . |
| 22 | The CNAA had already approved a dozen of Hatfield 's courses for honours degrees , and it was to have twenty degree courses by 1968 , establishing a pattern of honours degree , degree and sub-degree courses . |
| 23 | But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games ! |
| 24 | more public expenditure : the King 's Fund researchers provided a tentative estimate that spending would have had to be just under £400 million higher in 1987/88 if it was to match 1981/82 levels , taking into account changing demand and technology ; |
| 25 | But this time it was to shove fifty U S dollars into my hand . |