Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] [n mass] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It blatantly encourages young people to live on credit which is extremely undesirable , and brought about by their greed in getting people to buy their goods in every possible manner . |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 3 | That means , it only needs another 8% to gain overall control . |
| 4 | Being let down by friends or a lack of public transport not only encouraged drink-driving , it also led young people to accept lifts from friends who had been drinking . |
| 5 | It also enables older people to challenge what is done for them , and to make provision more in line with their real needs . |
| 6 | If anything , like the Patent Office , it probably needs more staff to deal properly with new ideas and to advise inventors . |
| 7 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |