Example sentences of "[to-vb] people [verb] [det] [noun pl] " 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 | Meanwhile France and Belgium are trying to encourage people to have more children in an effort to revitalise their flagging economies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |