Example sentences of "it [verb] people [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 2 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 3 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 4 | It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ . |
| 5 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 6 | The editor of Les Colonies , however , seized on this statement , and in an editorial in the very last issue his paper was ever to publish , tried to use it to encourage people to stay in St Pierre . |
| 7 | IF HEINZ announced that it uses people to test the taste of its baked beans , who 'd be surprised ? |
| 8 | To do this , the ‘ vocational ’ element in education is critical because it increases the skills people have for use in a variety of enterprises ; it allows people to make use of their learning . |
| 9 | It allows people to get into the story — to read , to read . |
| 10 | Job Start 50+ illustrates this point well ; a government pilot scheme designed for part-time work only , it allowed people to earn a maximum of just £2.27 an hour in 1989 . |
| 11 | It leads people to believe that there is excessive bureaucracy and overlap and the potential for waste . |
| 12 | The main experimental procedure will involve measuring how long it takes people to read successive segments of carefully-prepared sentences presented on a microcomputer screen . |
| 13 | ‘ British colonialism was no good , but it taught people to read . |
| 14 | Italian colonialism was no good , but it taught people to work . |
| 15 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 16 | Does education prepare people to be objects of learning and to accept their place within the status quo , or does it encourage people to question the critical issues of the day and challenge forces that keep them passive ? |
| 17 | It helps people to appreciate mystery by not defining too easily and sewing it all up . |
| 18 | It helps people to relax , to feel cheerful and to be more sociable . |
| 19 | Bob Walker of the manufacturing support department , who developed the course with Paul Swiety of the work study department , said : ‘ This is an important feature of the course as it helps people to understand that TNT has an impact across the whole structure of the Group at all levels . ’ |
| 20 | This urgent need for real cash is a continual threat to LETS initiatives , as it tempts people to devalue the notional currency . |
| 21 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 22 | For it enables people to unite in support of some ‘ low or medium level ’ generalizations despite profound disagreements concerning their ultimate foundations , which some seek in religion , others in Marxism or in Liberalism , etc . |
| 23 | It enables people to identify with those who lead or govern them , to see politicians and rulers as both special and , at the same time , exemplifying the character of their followers … |
| 24 | Like the wares of other middlemen , there is something synthetic and not quite genuine about her product , for it enables people to survive within a basically debilitating system . |
| 25 | It enables people to develop new skills which may enhance confidence and self esteem . |
| 26 | The type of counselling advocated in this article and on most training courses is patient-centred and non-directive ; it enables people to make their own decisions and find their own solutions , rather than having them imposed by ‘ the specialist ’ . |