Example sentences of "was offer by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Another popular explanation was offered by the German economist Wagener when he proposed his ‘ law of increasing state actions ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |