Example sentences of "more people [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the money was ploughed back into dog racing — horse racing enjoys a £40million levy — tracks could improve amenities and strengthen security which would encourage more people to go to the dogs . |
| 2 | The new services started just days after the Countryside Commission called for more people to travel to the countryside by public transport or face car bans at popular spots . |
| 3 | In London , for instance , the most severely affected boroughs like Hackney and Tower Hamlets , with male unemployment rates of over 28 per cent in 1986 , had already seen sharp rises in joblessness between 1971 and 1981 , which had driven more people to work outside the boroughs of residence and brought a marked fall in the numbers of women in paid work ( Townsend el al. , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | He feels that in trying to get more people to believe with the increasing trend towards atheism , has neglected its traditional duties of helping the poor etcetera . |
| 5 | Hostility towards the policies and corrupt practices associated with the Court Whigs might have caused more and more people to look on the possibility of a Stuart Restoration with increasing sympathy ; the fact that the Stuarts never renounced their Catholicism and remained closely identified with France explains why this growing sympathy was never translated into an effective challenge to the Protestant succession as guaranteed by the Glorious Revolution and the Act of Settlement . |
| 6 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |