Example sentences of "encourage [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 2 | The country 's hard-pressed cultural and artistic institutions , who have seen their State subsidies drastically lose value in the new market economy , with declining ticket sales and intense competition from Western-style popular entertainment , hope that the new law will encourage private patronage of the arts . |
| 3 | To say this is not to condone or encourage private immorality . |
| 4 | The proposal is that the Training and Enterprise Councils should encourage private sector employers , as well as public employers and voluntary bodies , to offer temporary work for unemployed ET workers . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher sees the government 's role as one of pump-priming , but much more than pump-priming is required to create the conditions that would encourage private investment in the inner cities . |
| 6 | This had hitherto been prevented in a desire to help encourage mobile industries to locate in the less prosperous regions of the north and west . |
| 7 | Oh , yeah , I know , when I used to stay , cos Helen and I were as bad as each other , were n't we , though we did n't encourage each other very much to get up early . |
| 8 | But it 's the fact that the guy gave erm , my friend Billy , erm , died a few years ago , erm , but they , they were like best mates and they used to ju just encourage each other to like , jump on a train and come up to London , and start going in all the hospitals and praying for the sick and things like that . |
| 9 | But the enormous contrast between relatively unbiased news on television and extreme pro-Conservative bias in the press would encourage Labour politicians to moderate their criticism of television and concentrate their attack on the press . |
| 10 | The Awards announced on the Queen 's birthday are to recognise and encourage outstanding achievement in the field of export of goods or services from the UK , and together with Awards for Technological Achievement , were instituted by Royal Warrant in 1976 . |
| 11 | The sea temperature in Shetland never gets much above ten degrees Celsius even in summer , which does n't encourage prolonged immersion without the protection of a wet-suit . |
| 12 | On the left it is believed that it will encourage political participation , and on the right it is believed that it will get the central state off the backs of individuals and allow greater individual choice . |
| 13 | Maybe we should encourage that sort of leap more , erm even perhaps other people in our church family , being involved in that . |
| 14 | I would encourage that particular connection ; I was n't at all jealous . |
| 15 | we did actually try as part of those tests although not reflected in that particular figure , er moving it to see whether we could encourage that er a different effect . |
| 16 | There is evidence around the country particularly in , in , in , in Milton Keynes where that sort of arrangement applies and I think we as a County Council as the waste er as the Disposal Authority must make sure that we put in place arrangements which will encourage that sort of thing to happen . |
| 17 | This will encourage undesirable qualities such as frustration , anger , lack of confidence and a general feeling of dissatisfaction with life in general . |
| 18 | An increased supply of money will encourage economic transactors to substitute other forms of wealth for money as the convenience yield on these extra money balances will be exceeded by the potential yields on the wide range of alternative assets . |
| 19 | Beginning with education , there is general agreement that it is not just any kind of education which will encourage economic growth . |
| 20 | Volume analysis did not encourage economic efficiency ; for example , it avoided the question of substitution between individual programmes when cash was short . |
| 21 | According to the Guardian of March 11 he had already " set up a fund … to co-ordinate and encourage economic investment in Georgia " . |
| 22 | Parents should ensure that they do not encourage persistent disobedience by rewarding bad behaviour . |
| 23 | Encourage openness , and you 'll encourage emotional and spiritual health as well . |
| 24 | His greatest fear was that the intensifying cycle of Israeli repression and Palestinian unrest would encourage Israeli hardliners in their view that only expulsion of the Palestinians would solve the problem of the occupied territories . |
| 25 | Such an approach can encourage low expectations and a failure to attend properly to the needs of children other than those with ‘ problems ’ . |
| 26 | It suggests that licenses should be given to independent radio and TV stations which would encourage high professional and technical standards . |
| 27 | The payments should not encourage high lists in areas of deprivation . |
| 28 | If she did ask it would encourage another bout of confidences and result in another round of their sparring . |
| 29 | Mr Kidd said that he did not think the UK Government would follow suit , but believed pressure from a more demanding American market could encourage British hotels to upgrade their precautions beyond the legal minimum . |
| 30 | Before the pupils were given the opportunity to interview each other about any subject , they were instructed to try to avoid questions which would only require monosyllabic responses , and , instead , think of questions that would encourage extended answers . |