Example sentences of "to offer [det] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men are too tired , the women too remote from the issues of the day , to offer more than a commentary on the quiche or a flirtatious skirmish . |
| 2 | Furthermore , while the nature of the curriculum was shrouded in generalizations , it was clearly intended to offer more than a narrow technical expertise . |
| 3 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 4 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 5 | In 1356 , after a succession of fruitless campaigns ( though just before some spectacular successes ) , the king sought in vain from the clergy a grant of a tenth for each of the next six years ; the clergy refused to offer more than a solitary tenth because not only had some of their conditions attached to earlier grants been ignored but also they themselves were too impoverished by war levies of all kinds to afford greater liberality . |
| 6 | However , we have in fragment VII another example of amorality — the moral insignificance of the meaningless nonsense-rhyme of Sir Thopas — against which , and against the positive morality of Melibee , from which the Host is able to draw a more pertinent moral , the amorality of the Shipman 's Tale becomes in itself a form of immorality , the failure of a tale to offer more than a licentious celebration of the terms of trade of the brothel and of pornography . |