Example sentences of "to offer a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To answer that immediate need , the British government has been agonising over how to offer a single tranche of passports , perhaps 100,000 , to Hong Kong , in such a way as to target recipients whom it believes play vital roles in the public and private sector . |
| 2 | ‘ I think one of the functions of the novel is to offer a critique of the totalising claims of discourse to give a total explanation , whether the discourse be literary , religious or industrial . ’ |
| 3 | It all seems to offer a breathtaking array of choice yet in practice the schedules too often present the same glum menu of badly dubbed westerns , trivial game shows , long and justly forgotten Neapolitan comedies of the 1960s or windy discussion programmes . |
| 4 | The agent was able to offer a ticket and quoted a fare of £153 . |
| 5 | Barry Romeril , BT 's finance director , said : ‘ This deal will make McCaw manifestly pre-eminent in the US cellular business , the only one able to offer a full national service . |
| 6 | ‘ This is a way forward for the museum to offer a wider range of access points into the nation 's science and technology , ’ Professor Durant said . |
| 7 | The acclaim was loudest , and most heartfelt , when Mr Lawson derided the inability of the Opposition to offer a convincing alternative formula . |
| 8 | Their problem , however , is trying to reconcile national curriculum demands with their desire to offer a second modern language , three sciences and perhaps Latin and Greek . |
| 9 | When Nausicaa meets Polypheme mythology is cut up and reassembled to offer a shocking explanation of what underlies it , a parenthetical explanation which throws a provoking light on the relations between men and women , between civilization and savagery , between present and past . |
| 10 | The serious economic problems facing Britain following the slump of 1929 , and the seeming inability of any one party to offer a way out , together with the parliamentary deadlock , led many to ask whether a combination of like-minded politicians from different parties might not prove better suited to resolving Britain 's problems than any single-party government . |
| 11 | This appeared to offer a real chance of a final agreement on the most difficult point , until on 18 November Adolf Berle proposed all five freedoms , with an escalator clause allowing an airline to increase its agreed number of flights if its planes were more than 65 per cent full . |
| 12 | Consequently , such marketing boards have frequently found themselves in a price squeeze , unable to offer a price high enough to producers , but only able to sell to consumers at a loss . |
| 13 | On Saturday night at the end of the Rosary Moran said , ‘ I want to offer a final prayer to God that He may guide your father on the right course , ’ and they all knew , even to the boy Michael , to what he was referring . |
| 14 | Marx accepted this general point implicitly though he nowhere discussed it in full [ Krader , 1972:36 ] and it was to offer a framework to much of his later writing . |
| 15 | It is quite another also to offer a wholesale refutation of Modernism . |
| 16 | Billy Meredith , the ‘ Prince of Dribblers ’ and the club captain , was suspended for a season for attempting to offer a bribe to an Aston Villa player . |
| 17 | It is unfortunate that the space enclosed by the 1862 building , together with its 1922 extension , was too small or too lacking in services provision to offer a convenient corner for installation of the new bathroom and WC . |
| 18 | Lunch was ready , Bodo , pressed to stay , was persuaded , two bottles of wine were opened , a good , warming goulash brought in , and then , as Herr Nordern rather ceremoniously raised his glass to offer a toast , the telephone rang . |
| 19 | A chair freak — odd because he never sits down — he likes to offer a selection of good chairs upholstered in period prints , often by MacKenzie Hodsoll . |
| 20 | Second call could be to those CHP companies prepared to offer a free initial energy analysis . |
| 21 | But the hotel does have the advantage of being able to offer a scenic and historic location and the more personalised level of service that a small independent hotel can offer . |
| 22 | • Changing hotel signage to offer a more welcome image to non-residents . |
| 23 | ‘ Caterers need to offer a consistent food product to their customers . |
| 24 | Senior market official , David Coleridge , said recently that Lloyd 's had lost out to Commercial Union on a multi-million-pound contract from Trafalgar House because it was unable to offer a ‘ package deal ’ . |
| 25 | The programme alleged that the living conditions and communal facilities at the resort , built by Billy Butlin in the 1960s to offer a week 's holiday for a week 's pay , were ‘ so squalid and dangerous ’ that no sensible person would spend time or money on a holiday there . |
| 26 | Senior market official , David Coleridge , said recently that Lloyd 's had lost out to Commercial Union on a multi-million-pound contract from Trafalgar House because it was unable to offer a ‘ package deal ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Sealink shares the view that scope for higher fares may now be greater but the economies of pooling would enable the ferries to offer a superior , uniform product and have a better chance of survival if the tunnel competition proves to be severe . ’ |
| 28 | Anyone crossing the Atlantic ( on a cash only bucket shop fare ) will quickly find filling stations only too happy to offer a substantial cash discount at the pump . |
| 29 | Retailers will be able to choose whether to surcharge credit card customers or to offer a discount for cash , giving them greater price control . |
| 30 | We are pleased to offer a choice of four Services to match the varying personal requirements of Landlords . |