Example sentences of "[adv] offer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I perhaps offer to give give Mr a bit more thinking time and suggest that a local plan which did not contain something which was in the structure plan , as a proposal would not be in accord with the structure plan . |
| 2 | MIGHT we perhaps offer discount vouchers [ appliances or gas ] to people who say ‘ yes ’ before the main gets laid in their street ? |
| 3 | Better offer her one occasionally . |
| 4 | I suppose I 'd better offer you a drink now that you 're here . ’ |
| 5 | Most of their important critical texts , Edwards remarks , are theoretical , in that they prompt fundamental reflections about the basic nature of writing , even if , ‘ One notices about such writing that it does not necessarily offer itself as theory , that it is directed towards what we now call literature and not towards something else . ’ |
| 6 | We like to entertain , but these days we would n't necessarily offer meat . |
| 7 | Any of these devices could obviously offer more attractive price incentives were they mass produced but at present fairly small amounts are being spent on wave energy research , which has , so far , not caught the imagination of large investors whether government or private , in the same way as , for instance , nuclear fusion . |
| 8 | She felt that a whole phalanx of gibbering wraiths could rise from beneath the flagstones and Elizabeth would indifferently offer them sherry . |
| 9 | A spokesman said : ‘ Cardholders should only offer their account number to companies when they themselves have initiated the call . |
| 10 | A spokesman said : ‘ Cardholders should only offer their account number to companies when they themselves have initiated the call . |
| 11 | ‘ Unable to contemplate a political solution to the social problems they described in their fiction , the industrial novelists could only offer narrative solutions to the personal dilemmas of their characters . |
| 12 | Some bureaux manage to staff a line while the bureau is open to the public , others can only offer telephone advice when the bureau is closed to the public . |
| 13 | Here again , because positive proof is not available , I can only offer you my own theories for your consideration . |
| 14 | The company 's argument was that under s 45(3) an employer need only offer alternative employment ‘ where there is a suitably available vacancy ’ . |
| 15 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 16 | Hence gangs of navvies ( mainly Irish ) were set to work on the task of excavation and works ; they lived in mud huts , huts which would only offer the most primitive shelter from the elements . |
| 17 | Nick dances his very own furious fandango in a suit from Hell 's own tailors , and if a steaming set littered with ‘ Jack The Ripper ’ , ‘ The Good Son ’ and ‘ The Mercy Seat ’ is n't your cup of tea I can only offer my sincerest condolences . |
| 18 | The sessions largely consisted of assurances from DEC of its continued commitment to the OSF/1 operating system on the MIPS line , in the face of surprisingly strong customer reaction to the news of DEC 's recent pronouncements that it would only offer OSF/1 for Alpha ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 19 | Expectations are set at an early stage : that the therapist can only offer education and advice , and the client is responsible for assimilating and applying this information . |
| 20 | Devoid of vision , replete with expediency , riddled with past prejudices , they can only offer the promise of a return to a past that did not work . |
| 21 | He could only offer advice . |
| 22 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 23 | We recognise that MPG6 can only offer part of the solution to the serious problems of over-consumption endemic in our society at present . |
| 24 | We recognise that MPG6 can only offer part of the solution to the serious problems of over-consumption endemic in our society at present . |
| 25 | As Jakobson put it , historians of literature had become practitioners of what he called ‘ homespun ’ disciplines based on psychology , politics and philosophy , where literature itself could only offer secondary and defective evidence ; Evgeny Onegin is likely to prove a somewhat unreliable document for the people that Osip Brik called the ‘ maniacs … passionately seeking the answer to the question ‘ did Pushkin smoke ? ’ ’ ( 1977 : 90 ) . |
| 26 | Michael had tried to book Guildford , but they would only offer us one week as they felt we could n't guarantee an audience for longer . |
| 27 | In order to ensure compatibility with qualifications obtained by more traditional means , centres may only offer , through APL the same qualifications that they are validated to offer by other means . |
| 28 | Once the Government had approved the NVQ it would only offer NVQ training assistance . |
| 29 | Most bakers can only offer a dozen or so cakes because it 's just a small part of their business . |
| 30 | Unfortunately at the moment we have had to move the playgroup into temporary accommodation so we can only offer two hours a day . |