Example sentences of "[to-vb] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To tempt people further to sample their journal , Cross & Cockade are offering FlyPast enquirers a free copy . |
| 2 | ‘ We no longer live in a society which we can claim is founded on Christian belief , ’ said one , favouring instead an education which teaches children to accept people have fundamentally different beliefs which are neither wrong nor right . |
| 3 | I would argue that in the past we should be doing much more to encourage people to go to and from erm regional airports and I , I think that is important , they do need to be expanded , but a lot of the evidence erm er there 's stacks of evidence which is founded in sort of er exercise is er in fact that there 's not a lot of unreprimand , I mean , I wished that there were . |
| 4 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 5 | That , in theory , ought to offer an elegant way to encourage people to use less and recycle more , not by taxing the output of waste , but by making new materials more expensive to use . |
| 6 | The public transport network should also be improved to encourage people to use this instead of a car and a park and ride system might be introduced to keep traffic out of the centre . |
| 7 | The belief of the City Council is that , notwithstanding there are clearly difficult traffic problems in the city , there is more opportunity to encourage people to use other more environmentally friendly modes of travel by locating development in and on the edge of the main urban area , a view that 's supported by P P G thirteen and the research document onto planning , transport and planning emis planning and transport emissions on which it was based . |
| 8 | Academic says we need to encourage people to use more facilities rather than simply looking round the University . |
| 9 | We want to encourage people to use the Park and Ride . |
| 10 | The promise of high rewards is necessary to provide an incentive to encourage people to undergo this training and to compensate them for the sacrifice involved . |
| 11 | Hospitals need to be clean to encourage people to recover . |
| 12 | Together with his determination to encourage people to maximise their potential , he considers this the key to his success in reaching his present position as Assistant Operations Manager with Knowsley Contract Services . |
| 13 | If you 're running a training session on motor insurance , what might be a nice easy question to begin to encourage people to participate ? |
| 14 | Therefore , to increase the usage rate for non-business travellers , some special price arrangements are needed to encourage people to leave their cars at home and travel by train instead . |
| 15 | Finally , Oxford City Council are launching a low alcohol week today to encourage people to drink less ; alcohol-free tasting sessions at a local community centre coincide with a new balanced alcohol strategy campaign . |
| 16 | Although efforts continue to encourage people to stop smoking , in the past decade considerable attention has been given to reducing uptake of smoking by teenagers , particularly by using the educational opportunities available through the school system . |
| 17 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 18 | This deliberate government policy was to encourage people to live in the rural areas and ensure that their income was at least as high as that of the factory worker . |
| 19 | UDCs are primarily intended to secure the regeneration of their designated areas by bringing land and buildings into effective use ; by encouraging the development of existing and new industry and commerce ; by creating an attractive environment ; and by ensuring that housing and social facilities are available to encourage people to live and work in the area . |
| 20 | With their statutory origins in the 1980 Local Government Planning and Land Act , UDCs are designed to bring land and buildings into effective use , encourage the development of new and existing commerce , create an attractive environment and ensure that housing and social facilities are available to encourage people to live and work in the area . |
| 21 | Over the past century , there have been ideological pressures — expressed , among other ways , through public policies — to define what constitutes a ‘ proper ’ family , and to encourage people to live in these units . |
| 22 | The perks are specifically designed to encourage people to invest in their local water authority despite the fact that it is patently obvious that some are not going to be as attractive as others . |
| 23 | Successive Chancellors of the Exchequer have striven to encourage people to invest in pension plans by favouring them with tax concessions — to the point at which they are one of the most attractive and tax-efficient investments you can make . |
| 24 | The government made PEPs tax-free to encourage people to invest in shares . |
| 25 | THE Government 's scheme to encourage people to contract out of the state earnings related pension scheme ( SERPS ) via personal pensions has produced results way beyond expectations . |
| 26 | Presumably that 's to encourage people to turn up instead of piling down the pub to watch it on sky tv . |
| 27 | I would have to ask whether it is right to use the measure to reward people who did something two years ago , or whether it would be better to use the money to encourage people to continue the process in the future . |
| 28 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 29 | Praising people , if it is done authentically , is a behaviour which is generally welcome and tends to encourage people to do well . |
| 30 | The idea was to encourage people to join a union — not ban them if they could n't . |