Example sentences of "have been offer [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL KNIGHTON has been offering Manchester United to a circle of prominent businessmen in the North-west in an effort to salvage his £20m takeover of the club , it emerged yesterday . |
| 2 | The Saint James ' Fine Food Restaurant at Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire has been offering kangeroo steaks to its customers for ten months . |
| 3 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 4 | ANDY TILL , the British light-middleweight champion , has been offered £25,000 by Mickey Duff to defend his title against Robert McCracken in the New Year . |
| 5 | Andy Till , the British light-middleweight champion , has been offered £25,000 by Mickey Duff to defend his title against Robert McCracken in the New Year . |
| 6 | The family has been offered £6 worth of vouchers by the company , but say they wo n't be happy until their son has been compensated to their satisfaction for his suffering . |
| 7 | Turner has been offered employment by the company of Newport 's new coach , Gareth Evans , at a better salary than he currently enjoys . |
| 8 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 9 | Of two hundred and forty people who returned their questionaires to the students union , seventy nine per cent said they 'd been offered drugs . |
| 10 | But I am in no doubt that if players had not been forthcoming the next chapter in the SA book — not the SARB 's — would have been to offer money . |
| 11 | Having been offered shelter by one of the Armstrongs , Hector of Hardlaw , whom he had helped some years previously , he was treacherously handed over to the Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland since Mary 's enforced abdication . |
| 12 | It revealed Ulster youngsters were the most likely to have been offered drugs ( 21pc compared with a national average of 10pc ) , were least likely to drink ( 21pc compared with 30pc ) but were most likely to smoke ( 36pc compared with 18pc ) . |
| 13 | The team found 60 per cent had been offered drugs and 36 per cent tried them . |
| 14 | Mr Reid said the matter came to light after a pupil informed a teacher that he had been offered drugs by the suspended boy . |
| 15 | Dudley Wood , the Rugby Football Union 's secretary , said yesterday : ‘ I spoke to Brian Moore a little while ago because there was a story that he had been offered money , although the amount was n't specified . |
| 16 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 17 | He had been offered university , naturally , but went ‘ home ’ , this time to India . |
| 18 | Another person had been offered £50 for a voucher and the other £30 . |
| 19 | Then , like his father , he had been offered work at Sakata . |
| 20 | One man , who would not give his name , said he had been offered £75 for a voucher and was ‘ open to further offers ’ . |
| 21 | It would have been cheaper — and certainly better PR — if speakers had been offered jugs of iced water , the liquid being supplied by North West Water . |
| 22 | A spokesman for the Industrial Development Board confirmed today that the company had been offered £576,000 in grants last year , before the recession in the computer supplies market became apparent . |
| 23 | Nigel had been offered wool and large blunt needles by an elderly nurse . |
| 24 | Under the policy of " re-insertion " introduced in the late 1980s some prisoners who renounced violence had been offered amnesties [ see pp. 36628 ; 37587 ] . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been offered work in the States but unfortunately nothing I actually wanted to do , ’ the 34-year-old said . |
| 26 | After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes . |
| 27 | We 've been offered hospice places but that 's not the way we want to do things . |
| 28 | All staff concerned have been offered redeployment at other stores or a financial settlement . |
| 29 | ‘ You have been offered marriage by every eligible family in the Khanate , ’ he pointed out . |
| 30 | YOUNGSTERS in Northern Ireland smoke more , drink less and have been offered drugs more often than their British counterparts . |