Example sentences of "offer [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Computer Horizons Corp 's largest shareholder , CGI Informatique SA , itself under agreed offer from IBM Corp , is seeking to persuade other shareholders to overturn corporate policies that it thinks deter potential acquisition offers for the Mountain Lakes , New Jersey company .
2 Cray Research Inc has completed the renewal of its supercomputer line with launch of the Cray EL98 , its new entry-level machine , which offers times the memory of Cray 's original Y-MP EL .
3 Cray Research Inc has completed the renewal of its supercomputer line with launch of the Cray EL98 , its new entry-level machine , which offers times the memory of Cray 's original Y-MP EL .
4 That must not be the beacon that the West offers after the rebuke from Pale .
5 One of the advantages of such a card over paper qualifications and former GNC registration badges is the protection it offers against the possibility of fraudulent use .
6 In this section I shall describe some of these , again culled from the wide range of suggestions that have been offered during the course of workshops .
7 No additional food should be offered during the day apart from meal-times so that the child has the opportunity to develop an appetite in time for the next meal .
8 The aim of the research is to identify ways in which general practitioners can encourage patients to check their understanding of instructions and advice offered during the consultation , and to produce relevant questions and comments .
9 An apocalyptic landscape by Enzo Cucchi ( lot 66 , est. $100,000–150,000 ) , the most important Italian picture offered during the week , fetched the low estimate .
10 If this is what is offered as the advantage of a hung council , I fail to see the benefit .
11 The promise of security and the expectation that wages would rise with promotion and seniority were offered as the reward for sacrificing the ability to move easily between employers .
12 Early studies of the contemporary romance form tended to offer somewhat disbelieving accounts of the readership figures for a fiction in which marriage was invariably offered as the solution for female anxiety ; as in David Margolies ' attempts to do this in his application of the tools of literary criticism to the most consistently successful publishing concern in the world .
13 Now they were being offered as the basis for policy , a suitably tailored " native language " which could be understood as the only common cultural resource of the whole nation , and administered as such .
14 Similarly when petty crime increases the lack of school discipline is offered as the principal contributing factor .
15 Simultaneous launches have been organised for all EC countries , with passes for each country 's own festival offered as the prize .
16 A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk .
17 Included in the programme are the SBus and MBus , and the Sparc architecture , to be offered through the $99 Sparc licence from Sparc International , which gives licensees the right to design , make and distribute CPUs conforming to Sparc architecture .
18 Others come for the pure entertainment offered through the range of special events . ’
19 He pointed out that the structural basis of human behaviour must be rooted in the gregarious nature of primates and the potentialities thereby offered for the socialization of individual experience .
20 Mrs Hayden said special prayers were offered for the boys during a service at the school yesterday .
21 Few excuses can be offered for the England batsmen 's failure to pile up runs both here and in the first Test at Calcutta , where they were beaten by eight wickets .
22 There are few predatory starfish offered for the aquarium but thankfully there are some really excellent non-predatory species such as the Fromia starfishes , Fromia elegans and Fromia monalis , and the dramatic blue Linkia laevigator .
23 The transfer tickets are , therefore , being offered for the Waterloo to Portsmouth return run on Friday , February 12th .
24 The headmaster , who had offered for the occasion his own private stretch of garden , was unusually gracious .
25 Did he tell you how much the farmer had offered for the cottage ? ’
26 Previously offered for the BBC Micro the system has recently been adapted to work with the Spectrum and Commodore 64 systems .
27 The salary offered for the Ruislip post was marginally higher than that given in Hendon but the tribunal found that the offer of alternative employment at the new location was less advantageous to him .
28 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 .
29 So far £40 has been offered for the ball and £5 for the framed picture .
30 A reasonable parent would be expected to accept services offered for the child 's benefit .
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