Example sentences of "[was/were] offer the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once eligible for inclusion in the study , the nature of the trial was explained to the patients and they were offered the treatment allocated by randomisation . |
| 2 | Having been denied their statutory right as British citizens to enter Britain , those East African Asians who were actually being kicked out of East Africa were offered the chance to queue for quota vouchers for entry to Britain . |
| 3 | His father was a farm administrator , and that went , too , when they were offered the chance to leave Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | ( In fact , shares were not offered to the public , but instead the management were offered the chance to organise a management buyout . ) |
| 5 | Now they were offered the chance to nominate a Governor ; this they declined , understandably in view of what had happened . |
| 6 | A 12-strong party of homeless men , who currently reside at the Fleetwood Hostel in Lancashire , were offered the chance to visit Sellafield to stimulate their interest in industry and give them a day out to remember . |
| 7 | Furtwängler died in November 1954 and you were offered the orchestra . |
| 8 | SIX stage-struck students from St Mary 's Sixth Form College , Middlesbrough , seized the chance of a lifetime this week when they were offered the opportunity of working with the Royal Shakespeare Company , says a recent school report . |
| 9 | Late in 1970 the substantial remains of Lancaster I EE173 of 207 Squadron were discovered in Lake Krumme in the suburbs of West Berlin and after the German authorities salvaged the aircraft , the RAF Museum were offered the opportunity to keep such items as might be useful for the restoration of R5868 . |
| 10 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 11 | In British Airways staff and their representatives were offered the opportunity to help generate ideas , and this resulted in very imaginative ways of reducing the cost of employing people without necessarily making them redundant or reducing their income . |
| 12 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 13 | Actually , if he were offered the choice of going wherever he liked in the world , he would probably choose Wimbledon . |
| 14 | The civilians apparently including young Croat soldiers who had abandoned their uniforms were offered the choice of leaving or staying by a UN aid worker . |
| 15 | They were offered the job and it has been working very well . |
| 16 | But he , we , we were offered the agency for the four counties in the borders . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're probably jealous too because you got the job through your dad , and then you were offered the foreman 's job . ’ |
| 18 | Er did you know about this when you were offered the flat ? |
| 19 | The Head Office of the London & Suburban Traction Co. was established at Electric Railway House ( now 55 Broadway , Westminster ) in 1916 and W. M. Wright became Secretary of the S.M.E.T. As a wartime measure , it was suggested to Croydon Corporation , that local routes in the area should be given service numbers and evidently they were offered the numbers 1–3 for their local routes . |
| 20 | ‘ Some of our major customers were talking about EDI , and we realised that if our competitors were offering the facility and we were n't it would score against us . |
| 21 | A consortium of Morgan Stanley , Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Gordon Capital bought a 9.5% stake and were offering the 6.5m shares for sale at $15.50 each . |
| 22 | The widow of Ferdinand Marcos , Imelda returned to the Philippines in November 1991 and was offered the nomination of the largely defunct New Society Movement ( KBL ) , the political party created by her late husband . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , Cromwell was offered the crown subsequently , but he refused , possibly to adhere to his own convictions , but his only son , Richard , was not a strong person . |
| 24 | While waiting for his stats to be confirmed , he was offered the services of a barbie doll ‘ recreational secretary . ’ |
| 25 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 26 | In 1920 he was offered the Governor-Generalships , first of South Africa and then of Australia , together with a peerage . |
| 27 | Michigan Department of Mental Health , in which an inmate was offered the choice between experimental surgery with the possibility of release and continued incarceration , and the Court held that consent could not be given by an involuntarily detained mental patient . |
| 28 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 29 | In the midst of the negotiations , Richard Baxter was offered the bishopric of Hereford by Charles , the offer being communicated via the Lord Chancellor . |
| 30 | When he returned from the tour of Australia , Worrell was offered the position of Warden at Irvine Hall , part of the University of the West Indies in Kingston . |