Example sentences of "[been] offered the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 2 | Doctor Bailey , as a young man , had been offered the major part of the next door garden by the Admiral 's predecessor . |
| 3 | ‘ The longest serving member of staff has been offered the one post that we will be able to fund from the Scottish Education Department for next session and currently we are waiting for a decision on that matter . ’ |
| 4 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 5 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 6 | ( Anyone would think you 'd been offered the leading role in the latest Spielberg epic , for God 's sake , you 're supposed to be depressed or something . |
| 7 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |