Example sentences of "encouraged [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third World countries were ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED to borrow at what , at that time , were low rates of interest . |
| 2 | At the same time , the new accent on ‘ community care ’ means that elderly people and disabled children who have reached a certain level of dependency and inability to cope — and who would once have gone into hospital or residential care — are now encouraged to remain at home . |
| 3 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 4 | Families and friends should be encouraged to visit at any time . |
| 5 | His pulse and blood pressure were recorded regularly and he was encouraged to drink at least 2 litres of fluid a day . |
| 6 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 7 | Students should be encouraged to look at the other information in the financial accounting system to see if it would be helpful for managers in terms of monitoring , planning or control . |
| 8 | At the same time , more IBMers were encouraged to look at the outside via secondments or community links . |
| 9 | People are encouraged to look at the wills but constant handling was putting them in jeopardy . |
| 10 | Parents are made most welcome at all times and are encouraged to look at their child 's problems realistically and positively . |
| 11 | Many assumptions are made which pupils are not encouraged to question at all . |
| 12 | During the last phase of the scheme 's existence , when storage problems became increasingly pressing and the scheme 's abolition imminent , artists were encouraged to keep at home the works of art they had officially sold to the government . |
| 13 | People were not encouraged to call at his house . |
| 14 | All correspondence from members should be sent to the office for forwarding to the relevant officers , and members should not be encouraged to call at anyone 's home without an invitation . |
| 15 | All schools using the project are strongly encouraged to have at least one staff member attend a day long training course to provide background information and to familiarise teachers with the technique of pupil led discussion groups , which are an important feature of the project . |
| 16 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 17 | In this job market , the qualifications for which they had been encouraged to strive at school were often of little use to them outside where ‘ who you knew ’ was often more useful than ‘ what you knew ’ . |