No, the phrase 'encourage becoming' is not correct in written English. However, the phrase 'encourage one to become' is correct and can be used in written English. For example, the teacher encouraged the students to become active members of their community.
These were, 'I feel uncomfortable with mentally ill patients'; 'Teaching at my medical school is interesting and of good quality'; and, 'Although I am interested in psychiatry, no effort was made to encourage my becoming a psychiatrist at my medical school'.
There was significant improvement in students views on the level of encouragement to pursue psychiatry as a career, 60% disagreed at baseline with the statement, 'Although I am interested in psychiatry, no effort was made to encourage my becoming a psychiatrist at my medical school' compared with 77% at follow-up, McNemars p = 0.001.
Yet many of our leaders are not acting in the best interests of their people, encouraging or becoming part of a kleptocratic elite for whom corruption is a way of life.
In addition, repositories must ensure that discovering and accessing archived data sets is easy enough to encourage exploration without becoming a disproportionate maintenance burden.
He constantly encouraged me toward becoming 'The World's Oldest Teenager' with his youthy appearance at age 10,000".
"For many people it's the first action we can encourage in respect of becoming more sustainable in their daily lives.
I often encourage them to consider becoming a single parent.
I would encourage anyone thinking of becoming a performer to consider that as a part of their decision".
Worse, these disproportionate unemployment rates have hardly budged for the past five years.A third wayNow a third kind of empowerment is becoming popular: encouraging black-owned small businesses.
It was his mother, who died shortly after the portrait was taken, who had most encouraged his dreams of becoming a political cartoonist.
