Example sentences of "encourage they [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department at ICI Chlor-Chemicals , said that ‘ we are encouraging them to understand that carbon tet is being withdrawn and that their customers should find alternatives .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 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 .
15 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 .
16 Encourage them to bring forward issues of concern and listen carefully .
17 Encourage them to express these feelings by suggesting that they state what exactly is worrying them .
18 We should instead create opportunities which encourage them to seek that information .
19 The pity is that we do not sufficiently encourage them to conduct those explorations .
20 Children were given care and attention 24-hours a day in an environment which would encourage them to lead better lives , he said .
21 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 .
22 Do encourage them to do this exercise routine too .
23 Water quality does not appear to be of great concern to these hardy fish , although an approximate simulation of Amazonian habitats does encourage them to exhibit better coloration .
24 This will encourage them to sell more exports .
25 FORMER transport minister Peter Bottomley today described as ‘ potentially murderous ’ a claim that wearing helmets gave cyclists a false sense of security and could encourage them to take greater risks .
26 Many southerners are apparently against provision of large-scale welfare support for these people , however ; they apparently believe it will both encourage them to have more children , especially children not in a male-headed , nuclear family , and thus increase the State 's welfare load , and also because they think it will reduce the incentive for them to work , and thereby solve their problems themselves .
27 The success of their handhelds has not yet encouraged them to plan further developments .
28 After the second assessment , social workers were asked whether participation in the research had encouraged them to include other people more fully in decision-making .
29 We have welcomed what the Board are doing , and we 've encouraged them to find new ways of doing so more in meeting the needs of the elderly who increase in numbers here in Scotland .
30 Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically .
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