Example sentences of "offers [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 2 | The Director who retires by rotation is Mr F. Cox who , being eligible , offers himself for re-election . |
| 3 | When Othello swears revenge , Iago offers himself to ‘ obey … without remorse , /What bloody business ever ’ ( 469f. ) — that is , he means , the bloodier the better . |
| 4 | The director who retires by rotation is Mr J E Smith who , being eligible , offers himself for re-election . |
| 5 | In addition , Mr H A Velasquez , who was appointed to the board since the last annual general meeting , retires in accordance with the articles of association and , being eligible , offers himself for re-election . |
| 6 | The director who retires by rotation is Mr C A Johnson who , being eligible , offers himself for re-election . |
| 7 | The director retiring by rotation is C A Johnson who being eligible offers himself for re-election . |
| 8 | Mr. Hogan retires from the Board at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting in accordance with the Articles of Association and , being eligible , offers himself for reappointment . |
| 9 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 10 | St William 's Foundation here offers itself as latter-day deus ex machina . |
| 11 | If the prey obligingly offers itself as an immobilised piece of meat , what advantage does it gain ? |
| 12 | Obviously , when sport offers itself as one of the few accessible routes away from deprivation , as it was to the early slaves , it takes on an attractive quality . |
| 13 | Offers itself as the ideal means of acquiring a basic grounding in art , architecture , painting , sculpture , literature , drama and music . |
| 14 | At the same time , the film offers itself for ‘ simultaneous collective experience ’ and the reason why critical and affirmative attitudes can fuse is because ‘ individual reactions are predetermined by the mass audience response they are about to produce … |
| 15 | The ambiguity of an elegy which laments the loss of constancy in relations between household and patron , and yet offers itself in the public market-place as a suit for favour , aptly characterizes the circumstances of Emilia Lanier 's life . |
| 16 | In the 1629 session he told the Commons that ‘ religion offers itself to your first consideration at this time ’ , and reproached the Speaker for undue readiness to obey the king 's orders . |
| 17 | Where it offers itself up |
| 18 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
| 19 | It is as if by doing so a woman offers herself , ritually cleansed , to be entirely controlled by her husband . |