Example sentences of "[to-vb] people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Academic says we need to encourage people to use more facilities rather than simply looking round the University . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Meanwhile France and Belgium are trying to encourage people to have more children in an effort to revitalise their flagging economies . |
| 7 | He also established La Festa dell'Uva , the Fête of the Grapes , to encourage people to eat more of them . |
| 8 | We need to find people to buy these places so that we can sort of balance the books , but one wonders , you know , could n't something have been done with that empty building for two years while there are folk in the area with nowhere to live . |
| 9 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 10 | You have to enfranchise people to question these things and to take actions , telling them everything 's up for grabs and they have the right to make changes . ’ |
| 11 | They tried to imagine people watching this gruesome comedy . |
| 12 | And of course heating your house in the middle of the night is not what everybody wants , so there has to be an attractive price to persuade people to do that and to invest in the storage heaters , hence the half price electricity . |
| 13 | We have no wish to see people imprisoned any more than they have , but the law must be upheld . |
| 14 | People talk about reading and about literacy , but they do not spend the money to enable people to achieve that . |
| 15 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 16 | Some of the more important suggestions for change include new committee structures to allow qualified civilian staff to have information and knowledge to question military assumptions ; new congressional committees to review the need for new weapons systems ; laws to force people to disclose any bureaucratic and financial interests when dealing with the military and to stop Pentagon officials taking top jobs with defence contractors : and , budgeting systems which would ask for every existing military programme to be fundamentally reappraised every year ( zero-based budgeting ) . |
| 17 | Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw that little curtsy she made to you — it must be difficult to get people to do that in the 1990s . ’ |
| 19 | not going to get people stopping that 's the thing . |
| 20 | We canvassed all round the village you know , the Guild members did and to get people to take this paper . |
| 21 | ‘ Eldorado is substantially different now but to get people to admit that is an uphill struggle . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's the way the Japanese think , ’ says Chris Hampson , ‘ and we 've got to get people to think that way too . ’ |
| 23 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |
| 24 | Now erm , I have n't been to a match lately , but these pictures I 've seen , there 's still all these fences around to stop people doing that . |
| 25 | What we 're hoping to do in this exhibition is to make people realize that science and technology is not as difficult as some people would have you believe , and that it can be fun . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm interested in the small things that gradually lead to the repression of women — I want to make people see these , but be able to laugh at the same time . |