Example sentences of "was offer [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Stephanie some time to realise that she always refused what was offered at the time when it was offered , whether out of a curious notion of good manners or out of cussedness Stephanie was never wholly sure . |
| 2 | Eventually , in 1892 , a new site was offered at the corner of Osborne Park , and a new church , the present one , built there . |
| 3 | Second , though no medical evidence was offered on the cause of C.'s speech delay and ailments , the justices took particular notice of his good progress in foster care . |
| 4 | No considered view was offered on the underlying problems of prison conditions that had triggered the riots . |
| 5 | A reward was offered for the head of every Macgregor delivered to the laird ; families were encouraged to betray their own people with promises of pardon ; women were branded on the forehead ; children were sold as little better than slaves to Lowland and Irish cattle dealers . |
| 6 | Having placed these matters on record in its minutes , the London committee proceeded to its own business : ( i ) a prize of 10 guineas was offered for the best description of not more than 20 cases of glanders ; ( ii ) the circularisation of honorary and subscribing members , asking for their ‘ communications on the veterinary art ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No explanation was offered for the extension . |
| 9 | Will she agree that in fact no rationale was offered for the end of the cycling working er party other than the desire to reduce committees ? |
| 10 | It was this policy , in popular and amended form , which was offered to the electorate in early 1929 as ‘ We Can Conquer Unemployment ’ . |
| 11 | Although compensation was given to the deportees for possessions stolen from them during the journey , no compensation was offered to the schoolchildren who were forced by internment to leave school or job training to which , in most cases , they were unable to return . |
| 12 | Consumer borrowing advice was offered to the public by the Citizens Advice Bureaux to be found in towns all over Britain . |
| 13 | Cautious as the Council 's immediate formulations almost always were , the outcome was that the Latin liturgy was replaced by the vernacular , the cup was offered to the laity , married men would at least be ordained to the diaconate , Protestant Bible societies were to be worked with , the modern world was to be sympathized with rather than condemned . |
| 14 | More recently , he had a meeting with Morris , when a new three-year contract was offered to the opening batsman . |
| 15 | The painting was offered to the National Gallery , who turned it down but did not then offer it on to either the Tate or another likely candidate , the National Gallery of Scotland . |
| 16 | The Zoffany was offered to the Tate , who want it but all of whose energies are at present devoted to acquiring another work by Zoffany , the Willoughby de Broke ‘ Family at Breakfast ’ . |
| 17 | Then the Burt family left the house in 1920 it was offered to the Council but unfortunately it was not taken up . |
| 18 | An example of the former ( Fig. 9.1 ) was advertised in the press on 31 May 1988 when 400 million of 2 per cent index-linked stock was offered to the public . |
| 19 | On the next day a pardon was offered to the rebels , who withdrew from the city , although their leader Cade remained under arms , putting himself outside the scope of the pardon , and was killed on 12 July . |
| 20 | A version of this argument was offered as the underlying policy rationale by the Second Circuit in the celebrated case of SEC v. |
| 21 | Today 's prayer is one which was offered throughout the world with special focus on the Special Session on Disarmament held at the United Nations General Assembly in 1982 . |
| 22 | A good example of how the foregoing Swiss rules operate was offered by the Goldberg case ( held in Indiana in 1989 and involving Byzantine mosaics stolen from a church in Cyprus and purchased by an American dealer in Switzerland ) , where the American courts concluded that the dealer Goldberg would have been deemed a purchaser in bad faith under Swiss law if it had been applied . |
| 23 | In late June the New York State Assembly passed a bill requiring auctioneers to disclose when a bid was offered by the auction house itself , a practice referred to variously as ‘ consecutive bidding ’ , ‘ chandelier bidding ’ , or , in the proposed legislation , ‘ sham bidding ’ . |
| 24 | Sharp Samson are paying me more , not as much as I was offered by the others , but I 'm satisfied because more money does n't mean I 'll be faster or happier . |
| 25 | Another popular explanation was offered by the German economist Wagener when he proposed his ‘ law of increasing state actions ’ . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher has rightly chosen to focus upon improvement here in her third term , but she is meeting an opposition to change that is more wily than the one she was offered by the miners . |
| 27 | The strength of the market for German contemporary art was underlined when a group of twenty-six watercolours and drawings by Georg Baselitz was offered in the Sotheby 's day sale of 7 May . |
| 28 | The lesson was offered in the particular terms of the four years , from sixteen to twenty-one , which a youth would expect to spend as an apprentice working towards officer status ; it was to be interpreted by each of the readers according to his own aim in life . |
| 29 | The Government Health Warning beneath the images has now become merely a product identification sign — without the " warning " we should not even begin to recognize what product was offered in the remarkable pictorial rebus above . |
| 30 | This reserved money was offered in the form of education support grants ( ESGs ) of up to 75% of the cost of each project , in areas of education that the Secretary of State had deemed to be important . |