Example sentences of "[prep] [be] offered the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerr took Lisburn Rangers to the Division II A Amateur League championship and the semi-final of the Co Antrim Shield during the 1991/92 season before being offered the job at Crewe . |
| 2 | If cover for funding adequacy is to be offered the insurer will normally require an additional premium . |
| 3 | If the casual worker can not make himself available for the full length of time requested , he is unlikely to be offered the assignment , although exceptions will be made if the organisation is facing a tight labour market and can only cover its manpower requirements by bringing in " part-timers " . |
| 4 | Asked if he had expected to be offered the position , Mr Powell told The Art Newspaper , ‘ I felt , on the basis of our discussions , that I was a serious candidate ’ . |
| 5 | In the primary care sector of the NHS , general practitioners ( GPs ) with large practices are to be offered the chance to control their own budgets and to buy hospital services on behalf of their patients . |
| 6 | That is six times the number to be offered the right of abode in the government 's package . |
| 7 | Although you have to be offered the deal , Sun could still lose some valuable people . |
| 8 | Despite his utterances during the brief encounter with Toby , Dominic had actually been surprised to be offered the job . |
| 9 | In short , I was tremendously flattered to be offered the job . |
| 10 | It was this success story which prompted the Prime Minister 's Office to inform Laura that her name was on the forthcoming list of Queen 's Birthday Honours ; she was to be offered the OBE if this was ‘ agreeable ’ . |
| 11 | On being offered the choice of recantation or the stake he chose the former and , deprived of his see , lived out the rest of his short days as a prisoner in Thorney Abbey . |
| 12 | While working at Okeover , Staffordshire ( c .1745 ) , on decorative plaster-work , chimney-pieces , and picture-frames , Stanley left England suddenly in October 1746 , on being offered the post of court sculptor to Christian VI of Denmark . |
| 13 | In order to make sparing use of parliamentary time , the role of Parliament is restricted to being offered the opportunity to say ‘ yea ’ or ‘ nay ’ to ‘ proposals ’ emanating from a delegate . |
| 14 | The flies were then tested by being offered the choice of the two odours , and the proportion avoiding the shock-associated odour was compared with that avoiding the control odour . |