Example sentences of "have offered a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By any account this has offered a golden opportunity to understand the origins of Christianity more fully , to appreciate the social , economic , religious and political circumstances within which a Galilean Jew might impact so strongly upon world history . |
| 2 | A mother has offered a hundred pound reward to catch the man who shot her ten year old son in the head with an air rifle . |
| 3 | Thus Professor MacPherson has provided an analysis of the principal shortcomings of current liberal-democratic theories and has offered a revised model which he calls ‘ participatory democracy ’ , and which is based on a humanist Marxist perspective ( MacPherson , 1972 , 1973 , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | For example , Luxembourg has offered a favourable regime for a number of years under its 1929 Holding Company Act . |
| 5 | British Rail has offered a wide range of economy fares for off-peak periods as a result of its surveys . |
| 6 | Since 1986 it has offered a wide range of programmes in the fields of management and technology with the Graduate School of Business Administration taking the lead role in these activities . |
| 7 | The movement was launched in Namibia at the beginning of last year and has offered a new dimension to the lads ’ Christianity . |
| 8 | Forever anxious not to offend another cricketing nation , the Test and County Cricket Board will try until the last possible moment , before Graham Gooch 's players are due to depart on December 28 , to save the trip , even though New Zealand has offered a peaceful alternative . |
| 9 | HENRY CECIL , trainer of Tenby , has offered a possible explanation for the Derby favourite 's Epsom flop . |
| 10 | Since 1984 , the SCOTVEC has offered a National Certificate , to which all non-advanced FE courses in Scotland are to be directed . |
| 11 | In addition , since September 1981 , it has offered a Preliminary Course in Art to students from the Dyfed College of Art . |
| 12 | NEWTOWNARDS dairy company Pritchitt Foods has offered a helping hand to refugees in the former Yugoslavia by donating milk powder to a Bosnian relief mission . |
| 13 | And Garnett College , already mentioned , has offered a one-year course in further education to qualified librarians . |
| 14 | The development of interest rate and currency swaps has offered a further fillip to the eurobond market , by increasing borrowers ' flexibility in issuance , as well as enabling them to profit from comparative advantage in borrowing in different markets ( see Hammond , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | On Oct. 13 Azerbaijan was reported on Russian radio to have offered a mutual withdrawal of forces from Karabakh and the stationing of observers to be provided by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 16 | Cyril Connolly had offered a similar generosity and recognition to the young Arlott , then a police sergeant in Southampton , given to writing poetry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The further side had offered a fair-sized patch of flat ground . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |
| 24 | Another company had offered an identical amount ; to the group — there was little to choose between them . |
| 25 | Recent developments in matrix biochemistry and cell biology have offered a fascinating insight into the complex interaction of hepatocytes and their surrounding matrix in both health and disease . |
| 26 | Research on the implications of American dominance of Japanese studies in English has been limited , although Dower ( 1975 ) Kawamura ( 1980 ) and Mouer and Sugimoto ( 1986 ) have offered a useful start . |
| 27 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |
| 28 | As a result , banks have offered a broader range of accounts offering more competitive interest rates . |
| 29 | And HMV have offered a massive spending spree in the new shop to be won by Echo readers . |
| 30 | These caricatures have offered a convenient metaphor of social change , carrying with them dire warnings of what social change might bring in its wake , with the ability to compress into a single image the ravages of modern trends such as high-speed living , urban anonymity , television violence , endangered streets , weakening affluence and shallow emotional content . |