Example sentences of "have been to encourage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many streams have been stripped of their ancient boundary trees , and the knock-on effect of the drainage schemes has been to encourage farmers to turn their farms into prairies . |
| 2 | The emphasis in the last 10 years has been to encourage selfishness . |
| 3 | The policy adopted by successive governments has been to encourage general practitioners to practise in under-doctored areas through a series of positive and negative measures . |
| 4 | Often the purpose has been to encourage wage restraint ; the size and shape of investment programmes have been the subject of ministerial concern ; in the past the National Coal Board has been dissuaded from closing uneconomic pits . |
| 5 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |
| 6 | The influence of Bruner has been to encourage teachers to define certain organising concepts which underpin the methodology of a subject . |
| 7 | One means of engendering higher order questioning of a more " historical " character has been to encourage pupils to construct hypotheses and then test these against the evidence . |
| 8 | Part of the task of the Census Dissemination Unit has been to encourage academics who may not be computer literate to use the data . |
| 9 | The British public had not so far been inclined to take the latest invasion threat very seriously and its chief effect had been to encourage feminism . |
| 10 | The initial objective of the ITE initiative had been to encourage a reorientation of the work supported by ITAB into avenues of relevance to the engineering community , using the existing committee structure as far as possible . |
| 11 | As implied above , another effect of generally high crude prices earlier on had been to encourage the economics of developing oil accumulations discovered outside the OPEC countries — not only in the industrialized world , in places like the North Sea , but also in some countries close to OPEC members , like Oman and Mexico . |