Example sentences of "[verb] offered a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The menu used has offered a choice of half a dozen regular pies and a daily ‘ special ’ . |
| 2 | He works for a Peugeot dealership and the company has offered a back-up vehicle with the promise of petrol from other businesses . |
| 3 | Moreover , the attention the association has paid to cinema has offered a space in which it has been possible to raise the issue of the production and distribution of narrative and dramatic works in African languages . |
| 4 | This chapter has offered a framework for practitioners to use as they reflect professionally on their practice of assessing elders . |
| 5 | Since 1981 , it has offered a range of therapeutic techniques to prepare severely emotionally damaged children for adoption or long-term fostering . |
| 6 | Mr William Waldegrave , Britain 's cabinet minister in charge of science , has offered a bottle of decent champagne to one who can tell him why the Higgs boson is worth finding ( see page 781 ) . |
| 7 | Securicor has offered a reward of £25,000 for information . |
| 8 | The owner of a £370 mountain bike stolen from a garden in Fenby Avenue , Darlington on Sunday evening has offered a reward of £50 for information leading to its return . |
| 9 | Krashen ( 1981 ) has offered a set of postulates concerning second language acquisition which forms a coherent model of this language task and it is useful to consider how BSL satisfies the series of five hypotheses which Krashen sets out : |
| 10 | Thus , for eurobond firms London has offered a pool of suitably trained labour ; in recent years , low levels of personal and corporate taxation ; a reasonable tax regime for financial instruments ( e.g. ability to issue bearer eurobonds that effectively pay interest gross and absence of turnover taxes — a particular handicap for the Swiss ) ; a supply of suitable premises ; the absence , since 1979 , of exchange controls ( although initially exchange controls were seen as an advantage , since eurobonds did not interfere with onshore sterling markets ) ; prudential and monetary regulations that have not historically tended significantly to raise the cost of funds , distort or prevent competition among domestic or international intermediaries ; English law ( widely accepted as a basis for international financial business ) ; the English language ; and political stability . |
| 11 | A meeting with BR Locomotive Inspectors , Brian Penney and Sam Foster proved very beneficial , a number of suggestions coming from BR to consider for construction L D Porta , the Argentinian locomotive engineer , and have provided many helpful suggestions , particularly with regard to low-grade coal , and JF Harrison , an assistant to A H Peppercorn at Doncaster works during construction of the A1s , has offered a number of useful ideas and suggestions . |
| 12 | This chapter has offered a summary of what is more or less evident when one looks at teachers ' lives today . |
| 13 | ‘ We got offered a lot of European dates after Reading , ’ says Gordon , ‘ but we backed off to rehearse and then went to America . |
| 14 | ‘ And then , blow me , I got offered a job at Radio One . |
| 15 | I mean but do n't you think that 's a bit out of order Bonnie got offered a job , so Honey goes and tries and gets it . |
| 16 | Wilt offered a grab bag of reasons for the SCO pull-out , all involving fears that MIPS will fail to command a market of any size . |
| 17 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 18 | If the East Europeans could have offered a bit more in the loose and a great deal more behind the scrum , they would have reaped some reward for their excellent work in the line-out . |
| 19 | For anyone studying the biochemistry of microbes , mycobacteria must have offered a mixture of attraction and discouragement . |
| 20 | The late appearance of Lonrho 's Tony Rowland in the guide of Fairy Godmother — or is it the Wicked Witch ? — offering to wave the magic wand and change the bulk of the debt into convertible preference shares could have offered a reprieve . |
| 21 | The thrifty genotype is thought to have offered a survival advantage to individuals in hunter-gatherer and early agricultural societies , who were subject to periods of nutritional hardship , by favouring fat deposition during periods when food was abundant . |
| 22 | Miss Ward 's father was later reported to have offered a reward of £80,000 for information leading to the conviction of her killers [ for October 1989 inquest verdict see p. 37398 ] . |
| 23 | One big club in the north is known to have offered a player signing from the Continent a loyalty bonus before he had kicked a ball for his new team . |
| 24 | Rosie had scribbled down the name and telephone number of a caller who had offered a story . |
| 25 | West Ham 's 4–0 victory over Norwich on Saturday had offered a glimmer of hope and scuppered the planned mass second-half walk-out by supporters in their continuing protest at the general running of the club . |
| 26 | And it was desirable , or would have been , if his style had been less intimidating , if the proposed freedom had offered a colour , light or warmth to compensate for astral and angelic voices . |
| 27 | A friendship treaty was signed on June 10 with Kirgizstan , to which Russia had offered a 10-year 1,000 million rouble loan in May when earthquakes caused damage worth an estimated 2,500 million roubles . |
| 28 | American had offered a total of $445,000,000 for all six Heathrow routes , and the partial blockage of the intended sale would exacerbate TWA 's severe cashflow problems . |
| 29 | Rejecting " the right of the United States to be the policeman of the Caribbean " , the government claimed that it had offered a search by the Mexican authorities . |
| 30 | The university authorities claimed after the talks that they had offered a package of generous proposals in an attempt to settle the dispute . |