Example sentences of "[be] offered a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where supplies are available and you 're offered a choice , it 's sensible to check out the accommodation on offer . |
| 2 | I 've got no regrets about not retiring , I mean er I 'm a professional soldier er and if you 're offered an appointment er and a privilege such as this is , then you do n't throw it away easily . |
| 3 | In the context of a petrol station , the risk-averse are offered a salary plus a small performance bonus for running the station , whereas the less risk-averse are offered petrol at wholesale price and are free to decide how to behave . |
| 4 | The lucky few who are offered a recording contract must understand what they are signing . |
| 5 | On returning to work employees are offered a position at at least the same level as their last job . |
| 6 | When you are offered a contract of employment it is worth studying the fine print and clarifying anything you do not understand . |
| 7 | the new computerised call and recall system will ensure that all women in this age group are offered a test at least one every five years . |
| 8 | This will benefit the community and ensure that unemployed people are offered a range of employment and training opportunities . |
| 9 | Here and at Caneel Bay , you are offered a style of holiday unusual by European , although not by American standards . |
| 10 | P&O Group employees are offered a discount of 2% on the purchase of Bovis homes . |
| 11 | You are offered a tankbuster for which you have no tank . |
| 12 | Frequently , senior executives are offered a termination package deal at the time when they are first told that it is likely or unavoidable that their job will come to an end . |
| 13 | Breakfast is a buffet , and at dinner you are offered a choice of main course . |
| 14 | Breakfast is a buffet , and guests are offered a choice of main course at dinner . |
| 15 | Breakfast is buffet style , and at dinner our guests will have a choice of three different menus , and are offered a choice of a salad and a ‘ starters ’ buffet . |
| 16 | Guests staying 7 nights or more are offered a day 's complimentary car hire ( full insurance included ) and those staying 14 nights are also entitled to an excursion to Capri . |
| 17 | Here guests are offered a breakfast buffet whilst the three-course dinner , with a choice of main course , is served in the Hotel Tyrol which is under the same management and stands immediately opposite . |
| 18 | There is also a roof terrace , and guests are offered a 20% green fee reduction at a nearby 18 hole course . |
| 19 | In brief we are offered a world where bureaucrats ( and ministers ) are redefined as accountable managers , public sector operations sub-divided into businesses , and the public seen as the customer . |
| 20 | For those who get this far only about about half are offered a job . |
| 21 | For those who get this far only about about half are offered a job . |
| 22 | Instead of the negation of all individuality , we are offered a parable of a single individual who , in his heroic struggle , " takes the whole Dionysiac world on his back and thus relieves us of that burden " . |
| 23 | Morden , Surrey-based Short Term Rental Systems Ltd can now offer UK customers what it reckons is a unique combined hardware and software personal computer rental service , thanks to a series of agreements with WordStar International Inc , Microsoft Corp , BitStream Inc and Lotus Development Corp : users are offered a combination of Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc machines ready-loaded with the software of their choice — an 80486 machine with colour monitor , inkjet printer , WordStar word processor and Lotus spreadsheet will cost £135 ; 24 hour support is also available from Bushey , Hertfordshire-based Professional Support Centre ; the service is aimed at ‘ Small-Office-Home-Office ’ users , large corporates wanting to hire machines for project work , and hotels , exhibition and conference organisers wishing to hire out facilities to clients ; rental , naturally , has been viewed with suspicion by software companies anxious about piracy — Short Term Rental has got round this by removing the installation commands from the software it rents so preventing users from copying . |
| 24 | Sponsors are offered a number of benefits including promotion of brand names at events and on publicity material , access to key sectors of Lothian 's population , and exposure on TV and radio campaigns . |
| 25 | Under a draft direction from the Scottish Office , SWDs will have a duty to ensure clients are offered a place of their choice . |
| 26 | ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 28 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 29 | They have been offered a choice . |
| 30 | Harris , who last season captained the Raleigh-Banana team which has now been disbanded , announced yesterday that he had been offered a contract by the Spanish Lotus-Festina squad . |