Example sentences of "had offered a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government had offered a 9 per cent deal over 18 months . |
| 2 | He was supported by the Duke of Norfolk , a Conservative and leading Roman Catholic , who said the white paper had offered a clear choice , while the bill would allow a choice between experiments up to 33 hours or up to 14 days and should be amended . |
| 3 | One claimed that a manager in the West Midlands had offered a Christmas bonus to employees who had worked through strikes in Coventry and Wolverhampton . |
| 4 | West Ham 's 4–0 victory over Norwich on Saturday had offered a glimmer of hope and scuppered the planned mass second-half walk-out by supporters in their continuing protest at the general running of the club . |
| 5 | Leeds said they had offered a six-figure sum for Fairbank and manager Doug Laughton wanted the player in his side for the home game with St Helens on Sunday week . |
| 6 | They refused to sign , indeed , even though the negotiators had offered a ten-kilometre-wide , UN-controlled corridor linking Serbia to the Serb-held parts of northern Bosnia . |
| 7 | Cyril Connolly had offered a similar generosity and recognition to the young Arlott , then a police sergeant in Southampton , given to writing poetry . |
| 8 | The campaigns in Brittany had offered a foretaste of what might be gained in loot and ransoms , but the expeditions to Aquitaine and Normandy were of much greater importance in demonstrating how much wealth might be won from war . |
| 9 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 10 | She had offered a substantial reward for information which led to the capture of either of them , and had used what contacts she had with the London constabulary to have them both placed on their wanted lists — officially they were sought in connection with the " murderous attack " on two of her employees . |
| 11 | Odd , though , that they had once seemed so odd , so isolated , for the school at which Dotty Doddridge vainly endeavoured to teach French had been non-conformist , faintly progressive , certainly egalitarian in its religious and social complexion : it had offered a liberal , secularized , healthy coeducation , and had on its foundation in the 1860s set out to attract the children of vegetarians , Quakers , freethinkers , pacifists , Unitarians , reformers . |
| 12 | And it was desirable , or would have been , if his style had been less intimidating , if the proposed freedom had offered a colour , light or warmth to compensate for astral and angelic voices . |
| 13 | Rosie had scribbled down the name and telephone number of a caller who had offered a story . |
| 14 | Rejecting " the right of the United States to be the policeman of the Caribbean " , the government claimed that it had offered a search by the Mexican authorities . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This culminated in late March with a visit to Moscow by Ozawa as LDP secretary-general , during which it was strongly rumoured that Japan had offered a US$26,000 million cash , loans and aid package in exchange for the return of the islands . |
| 17 | Vananu , who had been held in solitary confinement since 1986 , was in March 1988 given an 18-year prison sentence for passing information likely to harm state security , after he had offered a United Kingdom newspaper information about Israel 's nuclear programme [ see p. 35922 ] . |
| 18 | A friendship treaty was signed on June 10 with Kirgizstan , to which Russia had offered a 10-year 1,000 million rouble loan in May when earthquakes caused damage worth an estimated 2,500 million roubles . |
| 19 | He had also stolen Cranborne School 's prize physicist , Khan , and had offered a free place to Simon Britton , a boy whose mother had had to take him away from Cranborne because of her financial circumstances . |
| 20 | The further side had offered a fair-sized patch of flat ground . |
| 21 | The Harry Tuffin Supermarket and Wildlife Centre at Churchstoke , near Welshpool , had offered a £400 reward after the six-month-old African Grey , named Tuffin George , had been ‘ parrot-napped ’ from the centre by two men six weeks ago . |
| 22 | Last night in the ‘ Digital pubs ’ it did n't really matter any more whether Heseltine had offered a major defence contract inducement to the company . |
| 23 | The university authorities claimed after the talks that they had offered a package of generous proposals in an attempt to settle the dispute . |
| 24 | He had offered an alternative . |
| 25 | Another company had offered an identical amount ; to the group — there was little to choose between them . |
| 26 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |