Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People talk about reading and about literacy , but they do not spend the money to enable people to achieve that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We have no wish to see people imprisoned any more than they have , but the law must be upheld . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |