Example sentences of "[to-vb] people [verb] [det] [noun] " 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 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 . |
| 3 | Meanwhile France and Belgium are trying to encourage people to have more children in an effort to revitalise their flagging economies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 . |
| 8 | We canvassed all round the village you know , the Guild members did and to get people to take this paper . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's the way the Japanese think , ’ says Chris Hampson , ‘ and we 've got to get people to think that way too . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |