Example sentences of "had been offer the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baird was there for a further two years before leaving in 1987 with chef Barry Forster , who had been offered the position of head chef at Longueville Manor on Jersey . |
| 2 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 3 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 4 | One of those gentry was Viscount Fauconberg , who had married Mary , the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell , in the same year as Cromwell had been offered the crown ( 1657 ) and they occupied Sutton Court , a mansion in the Little Sutton area , south of Turnham Green . |
| 5 | Doctor Bailey , as a young man , had been offered the major part of the next door garden by the Admiral 's predecessor . |
| 6 | He would tell friends that , if , after he had taken the Civil Service Competition in 1946 , he had been offered the Treasury instead of the Ministry of Civil Aviation , he would have stayed in Whitehall and eschewed a political career . |
| 7 | A letter had been received from E. Coleman , surgeon , of Palsgrave Place , Temple , but this was held in abeyance until 7 January 1794 , A week later , Clark of Edinburgh , who had been offered the post of professor , was asked to make his mind up , whereupon he declined the appointment . |
| 8 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 9 | In addition , 20 of the worst asthmatic patients in the district , who had been identified mainly between 1978 and 1982 and had been offered the option of self admission , were all alive in 1992 . |
| 10 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |
| 11 | In the light of paragraph ( b ) the seller having a monopoly will be more likely to succeed if the buyer had been offered the chance of buying the goods , perhaps at a slightly higher price , on terms not including the exemption clause . |
| 12 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |
| 13 | Before UPH came on the scene , Finnegan Menton had been offering the site for £2.7m . |