Example sentences of "[is] offered a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the very act of reading on into the tale from the Miller 's Prologue we as readers allow ourselves to be manipulated into supposing ourselves somehow different from the readership of " " every gentil wight " " that is offered a warning and an invitation to : We know ourselves to be more complex beings . |
| 2 | Typically a landowner is offered a consideration of , say , £2000 per acre to grant an Option to purchase , which may be exercised within 12 months by the developer . |
| 3 | Billy says his 12-year-old son , Mark , is very upset and he is appealing for anyone who is offered a snake for sale in suspicious circumstances to contact the police . |
| 4 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |
| 5 | Scottish Tourist Board receptionist Angela Crolla ( above left ) is offered a Taste of Scotland by CCg Catering Manager Eleanor Hunt . |
| 6 | If the shares are retained , the investor is offered a mid-market rather than a bid price . |
| 7 | Listeners calling the talk line can chose the subject of their choice , and everyone is offered a Tampax Teen Talk Kit which includes a booklet for mum , called ‘ Between Ourselves ’ . |
| 8 | And once one child in the street is offered a place , other parents naturally feel under some pressure to put their children into school too , for fear that they might fall behind educationally . |
| 9 | McDeere is offered a job with law firm Bedinini , Lambert and Locke who are euphemistically known as ‘ tax specialists ’ in Memphis . |
| 10 | She is offered a lift by a Black man , and as she gazes at the countryside slipping by , she reminisces about her childhood . |
| 11 | Coleridge is offered a glimpse of the power of what true creation is like . |
| 12 | Already , one school leaver in 10 is offered a training voucher — a means to encourage a sharp improvement in the quality and quantity of training available to that age group while increasing the choice and opportunity open to young people . |
| 13 | The publisher is offered an opportunity to respond to the Government 's response . |
| 14 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 15 | ‘ Is n't he the gangster who 's offered a reward for information about the murder ? ’ she interrupted . |