Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 2 | Encourage regular visits to the lavatory , help the person take their mind off their depression by encouraging them to take part in the activities of the Home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I once complained to Help The Aged about the way they got kids to compete for ‘ badges ’ by encouraging them to collect a target number of sponsors — and thus to pester neighbours . |
| 5 | A council in rural Hampshire , where the uniform business rate averages £1,250 , is hoping to save village shops and sub post-offices by encouraging them to claim rebates of up to 80 per cent . |
| 6 | By encouraging them to keep up their medication and allowing them to talk through their problems sufferers learn to cope with their illness . |
| 7 | Our aim is to reduce the number of new HIV infections by giving young people the facts about AIDS and by encouraging them to think about their future . |
| 8 | Audit committees are only as good as their members : they will help to enhance standards of corporate governance only if they are made up of truly independent non-executive directors with the experience , the skill and the commitment to : challenge knowledgeably , incisively and fearlessly the actions and judgments of management as they relate to the financial reporting process ; monitor actively management 's commitment to the maintenance of an effective system of internal control ; support the auditors by encouraging them to discuss their findings and views freely ; and act independently and objectively in helping to resolve differences of view between auditors and management . |
| 9 | One donor , now almost housebound , had worked with Kinloch Anderson , opposite the church , for many years ; remembered our very first Sale ; had enjoyed that and all the others ; and what 's more , had involved the girls in the office by encouraging them to bring and buy books . |
| 10 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 11 | If he has a facial palsy , he may find it difficult to chew and swallow , and you can help this by encouraging him to chew and clear food from the hemiplegic side of his face . |
| 12 | The psychologist had suggested among other things that Mrs Singh could help to improve Jeetinder 's spoken and written language by reading to him at bedtime and could help to improve his numeracy by encouraging him to spend and account for his pocket money . |
| 13 | Mr Dixon , friend of Mrs Murphy and conductor , in his spare time , of the amateur orchestra , had accidentally launched Hank on his writing career a few years earlier by encouraging him to enter an essay competition sponsored by a service club . |
| 14 | Doleys and Arnold ( 1975 ) treated an 8-year-old mentally handicapped boy by encouraging him to copy another child and by reinforcing attempts to sit on the lavatory for longer periods . |
| 15 | Until recently , demand for organic produce has been insufficient to spur most farmers to make the change — but Stephenson & Co , by encouraging us to buy organic whenever possible , badgering supermarkets and greengrocers to offer a wider range of organic produce , aim to encourage more to make the switch . |
| 16 | take better policy decisions by assisting them to work out the implications of their basic strategy in terms of policies in specific areas , to establish the relative priorities to be given to the different sectors of their programme as a whole , to identify those areas of policy in which new choices can be exercised and to ensure that the underlying implications of alternative courses of action are fully analysed and considered . |
| 17 | There may only be one ground for divorce — irretrievable breakdown — but the only way you can prove it is by proving you 've got one of five grounds going for you : |
| 18 | Just by naming them does n't commit them to do anything , they may say Well he never asked me I 'm not doing that . |
| 19 | The prosthetists with amputations noted that patients could be discouraged by seeing them cope so well . |
| 20 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 21 | Also by competing it risks cannibalising its own best profit sources : IBM selling an AS/400 mini is a triumph if the buyer would otherwise have chosen a DEC VAX , but a financial disaster for IBM if it replaces an IBM mainframe . |
| 22 | Why , for instance , does Peggy not get satisfaction instead from trying to eradicate the difference between herself and Boris , e.g. by helping him reach the answer himself rather than telling him ? |
| 23 | If he has severe perceptual problems , for instance , you may need to keep reminding him where his face is by helping him to touch it , or he may keep forgetting to shave or wash the left half of his face . |
| 24 | POWER UP PETE , the kid from the street , is giving away FIFTY Super Nintendo consoles PLUS 50 fabulous new Scope light guns , and you can win them — by helping him save the world . |
| 25 | You can all be scientists today by helping me do some magic science tricks |
| 26 | And think what good you 're doing by helping me fulfil all Uncle 's requirements for getting hold of my inheritance . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , both Franca and Alison had , after initial suspicion , adopted Irina , at least as far as amusing themselves by helping her to spend money on having her hair done and buying clothes . |
| 28 | This can sometimes be done very successfully by helping her to channel her energy and abilities into some local club or voluntary service organisation where her talent for management can be put to good use , as well as meeting her own need to be a little bit of a ‘ bossy-boots ’ . |
| 29 | Her central role in the family can be continued by helping her provide emotional support and care to other family members . |
| 30 | The sequence of action can & negotiated by helping her see the importance of achieving small steps in the weaning process . |