Example sentences of "was offered for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A school prize was offered for a study of the book Belief in God by Bishop Charles Gore . |
| 2 | In addition , a reward of £5,500 was offered for information leading to an arrest . |
| 3 | In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones . |
| 4 | It was decided to bring about the dissolution of the greater part of this library , and the library was offered for sale by Messrs Sotheby at one of the provincial salerooms they then owned , Sotheby 's Taunton . |
| 5 | A reward was offered for the head of every Macgregor delivered to the laird ; families were encouraged to betray their own people with promises of pardon ; women were branded on the forehead ; children were sold as little better than slaves to Lowland and Irish cattle dealers . |
| 6 | Having placed these matters on record in its minutes , the London committee proceeded to its own business : ( i ) a prize of 10 guineas was offered for the best description of not more than 20 cases of glanders ; ( ii ) the circularisation of honorary and subscribing members , asking for their ‘ communications on the veterinary art ’ . |
| 7 | It was offered for sale and although the Corporation , who were always short of depôt space , were approached , they rented it as a mortuary . |
| 8 | It was offered for sale at £13,500 , but was eventually leased away as a small factory , which it remains . |
| 9 | Some sixty years ago a copy of Lady Dilke 's French Illustrated Books , extended to fifty-eight volumes , with nearly 10,000 additional illustrations , was offered for sale at £2,000 . |
| 10 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 11 | at a time after the guest has arrived at the hotel , either the property in question was offered for deposit as aforesaid and the proprietor or his servant refused to receive it , or the guest or some other guest acting on his behalf wished so to offer the property in question but , through the default of the proprietor or a servant of his , was unable to do so . |
| 12 | The so-called Trausnitz Venus , which was offered for sale at Christie 's on 10 December but failed to raise a single bid , has now been bought by the National Gallery in Washington . |
| 13 | No justification was offered for these areas ; neither are they identical to the six lines of development adopted by the Assessment of Performance Unit , which also involved HMIs . |
| 14 | A similar economic explanation was offered for the rise of the ‘ house of correction ’ ( the forerunner of the modern prison ) from the end of the sixteenth century on . |
| 15 | And this must mean that the score itself came first as well — before the publication of the song-book , which was offered for sale in the theatre during the 1692 run of the show . |
| 16 | No explanation was offered for the extension . |
| 17 | Shetland 's rabbits have become the first in history to evolve without tails , after a bounty of 25p was offered for every tail that hunters could produce . |
| 18 | Will she agree that in fact no rationale was offered for the end of the cycling working er party other than the desire to reduce committees ? |
| 19 | When it was offered for sale 1,500 people applied to buy the car and it was sold out within 2 days . |
| 20 | An imposing table which graced Darlington Football Club boardroom was offered for sale this week by a Quakers fan . |