Example sentences of "offered a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students of French would be offered a course slanted towards the study of the contemporary spoken language . |
| 2 | Following the successful English Course in 1986 , we have been offered a course from Thursday 31 May to Tuesday 5 June 1990 . |
| 3 | Maybe they all wanted a rest , or did n't rate the £550,000 prize-money , or were n't offered a skins ' game as an enticement to attend . |
| 4 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 5 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
| 6 | You are offered a tankbuster for which you have no tank . |
| 7 | Even lesser known men were received with open arms and , in some cases , cheque books : when the Rev. J. A. Macfadyen went to America to ‘ supply ’ the pulpit of Brooklyn 's Central Congregational Church he was offered a church in Chicago at the princely stipend of £2,000 — over £60,000 today — but he turned down the offer . |
| 8 | While the police had been offered a rise of 9.25 per cent , ambulance staff , who earned only £10,000 after qualification , were being offered 6.5 per cent . |
| 9 | For anyone studying the biochemistry of microbes , mycobacteria must have offered a mixture of attraction and discouragement . |
| 10 | Wilt offered a grab bag of reasons for the SCO pull-out , all involving fears that MIPS will fail to command a market of any size . |
| 11 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 12 | Frequently , senior executives are offered a termination package deal at the time when they are first told that it is likely or unavoidable that their job will come to an end . |
| 13 | If the disordered chromosome is detected , the woman may be offered a termination of the pregnancy . |
| 14 | If the embryo is found to have matched CF genes , the parents will then be offered a termination . |
| 15 | A GRE spokesman said all the staff were being offered a transfer to Lytham and added that the firm would do its best to accommodate their wishes if they did n't want to move to Lytham . |
| 16 | In that direction I understand the Indians , Pakistanis and Sri Lankans have offered a total of about £1 million more to help pay for cricket in developing countries . |
| 17 | In that direction I understand the Indians , Pakistanis and Sri Lankans have offered a total of about £1 million more to help pay for cricket in developing countries . |
| 18 | American had offered a total of $445,000,000 for all six Heathrow routes , and the partial blockage of the intended sale would exacerbate TWA 's severe cashflow problems . |
| 19 | The current leader of Nihon Kominto , Ryumin Oshima , made a sworn deposition that he had been offered a total of some 5,000 million yen by several senior LDP figures — including 3,000 million on Kanemaru 's behalf — to stop his group 's loud-speaker barracking campaign against Takeshita . |
| 20 | And a confident Hide said yesterday : ‘ I 've always known I was as good as people like Bruno and Lewis , and if I was offered a fight against Bowe in January I 'd take it . |
| 21 | And when I was offered a publicity interview who should turn up but Mr Branagh . |
| 22 | Those unable to transfer will be offered a redundancy package and career counselling . |
| 23 | The airport duties made a pleasant change for a few of our lads , and one of them was offered a helicopter flight to the rigs one day . |
| 24 | In discussions on this issue , which Poland also attended [ see pp. 37302-03 for agreement that Poland should do so ] , Poland was offered a treaty , to be negotiated immediately following unification , restricted to the issue of the border , with a further treaty , to be negotiated later , to deal with other matters of German-Polish relations . |
| 25 | Neville Chamberlain was naturally offered a return to the Treasury . |
| 26 | When asked about his attitude to Equal Opportunities , Everett promptly offered a half-hour lecture on why women should be ordained as priests . |
| 27 | ‘ Who wants to work when you 've been offered a holiday ? ’ she asked . |
| 28 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 29 | Some members however , may not know that he runs courses at his workshop at Bexley Heath and as a Fellowship member has generously offered a discount to any members attending one of his polishing courses . |
| 30 | P&O Group employees are offered a discount of 2% on the purchase of Bovis homes . |