Example sentences of "persuading [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts said they expected the group to have no big problems persuading shareholders to approve the restructuring plans at an extraordinary general meeting on December 21 . |
| 2 | The Government have put a great deal of effort into persuading employers to take seriously the issues involving minorities in employment , including people with disabilities . |
| 3 | In the long run , Cabernet will probably improve Rioja , if only by persuading traditionalists to make better wines from Tempranillo , just to prove that nobody really needs Cabernet . |
| 4 | Fat chance of that , or of persuading Jessica to go with her to Aunt Jane 's in Port Erin . |
| 5 | ‘ When the Government was persuading Parliament to accept the right to buy scheme , they said that local authorities would be able to use accumulated funds from selling their houses to build more . |
| 6 | Anticipating Kravchuk 's remarks at a press conference on Nov. 4 shortly after the Russian ratification of START , Ukraine 's Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma had warned that unless the West offered further inducements he would have difficulty in persuading parliament to approve the treaty . |
| 7 | Attending case conferences , meeting with support workers , recruiting new ones , paying wages ; persuading refusers to accept some help . ’ |
| 8 | However , the incident is highly revealing of the concern felt in Cuba about the difficulties of persuading Moscow to make a substantial commitment . |
| 9 | And recently the radical sect Friends of the Earth campaigned against squirters or ‘ aerosols ’ containing ozone-damaging CFC gases , by persuading Believers to use CFC-free artifacts . |
| 10 | It is for this reason the UK accountancy bodies have put forward the idea of a European accounting standards body in the hope of persuading Brussels to toe the IASC line . |
| 11 | SOUTH YORKSHIRE 'S low bus fares are persuading drivers to leave their cars at home , according to a study published this week by Oxford University 's Transport studies Unit . |
| 12 | This divides the vista into short stretches , an important element in persuading drivers to slow down . |
| 13 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 14 | At least three vans regularly tour London persuading Jews to fulfil religious obligations — inviting them into the vans to say prayers or recite the traditional blessings over bread and wine . |
| 15 | The Commission was able to resolve the case by persuading Fiat to reduce its existing shareholding in a competing French battery manufacturer , thus lowering Fiat 's market share . |
| 16 | The children live outside the immediate neighbourhood and this accounts for the difficulty in persuading parents to visit the school although great efforts have been made to improve upon this . |
| 17 | However , persuading companies to pay out in a worldwide recession is hard-going , and the IASC can not rely on such an uncertain source of funding . |
| 18 | Remember back a few issues ( UX No 363 ) when Gain Technology , the multimedia start-up that used to call itself Cayenne Systems , was talking about giving the IBM/Apple joint venture a run for its money and persuading IBM to adopt its technology ? |
| 19 | The question of justification may also arise where A seeks to assert rights under a contract with B which is inconsistent with another contract between B and C. The question here is whether A has a right equal or superior to that of C and if he has he is justified in persuading B to break his contract with C. So if B enters into a contract on Monday to sell to A for £10,000 and then next day to sell the same property to C for £15,000 A , by persuading B to perform the first contract commits no wrong against C. |
| 20 | A commits a tort if , without lawful justification , he intentionally interferes with a contract between B and C , ( a ) by persuading B to break his contract with C , or ( b ) if by some unlawful act he directly or indirectly prevents B from performing his contract . |
| 21 | The existence at common law of the tort of enticement of a servant has already been noticed , but though to modern eyes it involved A persuading B to break his contract with C its historical origins lie more in status than in contract . |
| 22 | If , instead of persuading B to break his contract or causing him to do so by direct unlawful action against him , A brings about the breach of the contract between B and C by operating through a third party , X , A may still be liable to C , provided unlawful means are used . |
| 23 | The question of justification may also arise where A seeks to assert rights under a contract with B which is inconsistent with another contract between B and C. The question here is whether A has a right equal or superior to that of C and if he has he is justified in persuading B to break his contract with C. So if B enters into a contract on Monday to sell to A for £10,000 and then next day to sell the same property to C for £15,000 A , by persuading B to perform the first contract commits no wrong against C. |
| 24 | However , BR said it was confident of persuading PowerGen to rethink its plans . |
| 25 | The United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) has launched a cleaner production programme aimed at persuading business to adopt greener methods . |
| 26 | In an effort to help stem the tide of rhino poaching which is now threatening the survival of the species , the UN Environment Programme has appointed a " special envoy " , charged with persuading governments to take steps to close down the trade in rhino products . |
| 27 | It is probably in this area that the House of Commons has had most effect in persuading governments to modify their original proposals . |
| 28 | Where arts projects follow this model ( the Art and the Built Environment Project show some features of this approach ) there seem to be difficulties in persuading participants to respond to the evaluator 's findings ( Pring , 1984 ) . |
| 29 | The employer is building an internal labour market , with a view to retaining the skilled workers , but extends it to all employees , using payment premiums and participative management measures , in the hope of persuading workers to embrace such change as a competitive product market makes necessary . |
| 30 | On the other hand they were available , recruiting them was simpler than persuading workers to come out from England , and they could never leave to work elsewhere . |