Example sentences of "encourage [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 2 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 3 | Thirdly , official labour market intermediaries in the job centres are an important source of information about employment prospects and a crucial part of the process of discouraging older workers from searching for work and , indirectly , of encouraging them to take early retirement . |
| 4 | The University seeks to include in its courses activities which promote enterprising qualities in its students by encouraging them to take more responsibility for their own learning , setting their own goals and targets through personal assessment and career planning . |
| 5 | Again , the behaviour of predators may affect the pollinating activities of animals such as bats , encouraging them to make short visits repeatedly , rather than long ones . |
| 6 | Bernard Whim , technical marketing manager in the solvents marketing department at ICI Chlor-Chemicals , said that ‘ we are encouraging them to understand that carbon tet is being withdrawn and that their customers should find alternatives . |
| 7 | Again , this is not radically different from the attitudes of many parents towards children of higher intelligence , who believe that their children should experience pre-school education , perhaps attending a play school or nursery from the age of three onwards , and then encouraging them to pursue further education at school leaving age . |
| 8 | One way of improving this situation is to encourage them to formulate specific questions to which they wish to find answers . |
| 9 | Part of his role was to encourage them to define these skills then present them as qualifications , and transfer them into the business context . |
| 10 | For example , back injury is common among nurses and there is growing concern about the need to instruct nurses in proper lifting techniques ( p. 252 ) and to encourage them to use mechanical lifting devices as much as possible . |
| 11 | The Green Book claims universality , and so names no names ; but it is also a book written in the first instance for Libyans , to encourage them to create popular democracy . |
| 12 | Over the summer , the Secretary of State and I met to encourage them to adopt best practices in dealings with their tenants . |
| 13 | They require fairly rich soil , and , after planting , all the branches will be cut back to within a few inches of ground level to encourage them to produce more branches for berry production next year . |
| 14 | Thank you very much indeed for your card and the £25 , with which I have decided to buy some pinking shears , to encourage me to do some dressmaking now that summer is ( supposedly ) not far away . |
| 15 | Realising that his son had little chance of success in Munich Leopold began trying to encourage him to lay other plans and Nannerl joined in the plea saying : |
| 16 | However , after discharge from hospital he remained isolated despite efforts that were made to encourage him to develop social contacts through joining community clubs . |
| 17 | The missions are mercifully short so you 'll often lose it only seconds from home , encouraging you to have another try to get through one more mission . |
| 18 | It also encouraged them to resist any change whatever in local institutions or in elections for community representation , except with the specific approval of the Jordanian government and the PLO itself . |
| 19 | To break this cycle we asked the women to aim at eating three meals each day and encouraged them to take small steps to reach this goal . |
| 20 | The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours . |
| 21 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 22 | He encouraged her to take public baths , he saw that she ate properly — though indifferent to food himself — and behaved with her like a caring mother , the kind of affectionate mother who had always inspired him . |
| 23 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
| 24 | The food and drinks offered by the hosts were , I thought , just about right , and very reasonable in price , which encouraged us to use this service , despite the service station stops . |
| 25 | Encourage them to bring forward issues of concern and listen carefully . |
| 26 | Encourage them to express these feelings by suggesting that they state what exactly is worrying them . |
| 27 | We should instead create opportunities which encourage them to seek that information . |
| 28 | The pity is that we do not sufficiently encourage them to conduct those explorations . |
| 29 | Children were given care and attention 24-hours a day in an environment which would encourage them to lead better lives , he said . |
| 30 | It could underline their responsibility for health rather than supply and encourage them to view managed units as a rather than the supplier of services . |