Example sentences of "offer [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 FRAUD , according to William Broad and Nicholas Wade , ‘ offers another route to understanding science …
2 In the last analysis , the study of BSL offers real insights to educators , psychologists , sociologists and linguists .
3 This work belongs to the genre of the ‘ Mirror for Magistrates ’ ; it offers conventional advice to kings and rulers on all relevant themes .
4 It judged the centre , which carries out work on AIDS , infectious disease and transplant research , to be a world-class laboratory and says that it offers unique facilities to researchers in Europe such as a rhesus colony for which the microbiological status is known and typed for major histocompatibility complex , essential for transplantation studies and infectious disease research .
5 While Cambridge had offered little concession to seminar teaching , it had allowed space for the introduction of a plurality of critical approaches and methodology .
6 ULSTER holidaymakers are being offered free flights to London in a new travel deal by British Airways .
7 Guests are offered free transport to Seefeld 's golf course daily ; this hotel is simply the best you 'll find .
8 Offered free access to Europe 's market for American airlines , America would almost certainly reciprocate .
9 The letter allegedly offered additional guarantees to BAe beyond any final contract .
10 The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that .
11 ‘ And several house building companies who have routinely offered temporary occupancy to farmers using three to four year Licences may find it is not as easy to establish their own occupancy as they first thought . ’
12 The 1670 Conventicle Act had offered financial inducements to people who were prepared to inform against Nonconformist meetings , encouraging local inhabitants to turn against their neighbours in the campaign against Dissent .
13 The Japanese will be offered greater access to Europe , on condition that they open their domestic markets — not only for cars but for a whole range of industrial and service sectors — to European businessmen .
14 There is another bar with TV lounge indoors and an a la carte restaurant which offers great value to Club guests .
15 In democratic states , and even in those which see themselves as having a so-called information society ( even we define it as a society which offers increased access to information ) , some forms of censorship will be as much a part of the fabric of society as in a despotic state .
16 The state offers small subsidies to pre-schools , but the system is poorly developed except for some voluntary projects , and in the townships both parents frequently work .
17 A retail store , whether owned by an independent trader or a huge supermarket chain , offers various advantages to consumers : stocks of items , displays of goods , opportunity to buy in small quantities , and convenient access to these services .
18 Y Care , the overseas relief and development agency of the YMCA , offers practical help to mothers .
19 Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) .
20 The widening of the franchise , albeit within the confines of the PCC , whose membership was estimated to be 600,000 , was seen as an important step and offered some hope to opposition groups campaigning for a future independent parliament .
21 They offered some concessions to France , including the final resolution of CAP , but they also threatened to use majority votes in January without him , and even talked of admitting Britain to the Community whether he agreed or not .
22 The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one .
23 In the other loyalist groups there were a number of competing leadership figures who offered differing responses to events and who were obliged to engage in more extensive consultation with their supporters before pronouncing .
24 In October 1990 Environment Minister Lalonde ( a critic of the Greens and founder of the rival Ecology Generation ) offered key positions to Greens in nascent environmental authorities but again Waechter 's preference for non-acceptance prevailed .
25 A budget concession on the poll tax offered more relief to pensioners with savings .
26 The Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative offered important benefits to shareholders and to our company .
27 He also offered dire predictions to couples ( Graham could n't even consider the possibility they might not be married ) that going at it like knives would lead to ‘ languor , lassitude , muscular relaxation , general debility and heaviness , depression of spirits , loss of appetite , indigestion , faintness and sinking at the pit of the stomach , increased susceptibilities of the skin and the lungs to all atmospheric changes , feebleness of circulation , chilliness , headache , melancholy , hypochondria , hysterics , feebleness of circulation , feebleness of all the senses , impaired vision , loss of sight , weakness of the lungs , nervous cough , pulmonary consumption , disorders of the liver and kidneys , urinary difficulties , disorders of the genital organs , spinal diseases , weakness of the brain , loss of memory , epilepsy , insanity , apoplexy , abortions , premature births , extreme feebleness , morbid predispositions , and an early death of offspring . ’
28 IT WAS difficult for small independents to offer services like their Holiday Care system , which offered immediate help to holidaymakers , whatever the problem , like lost baggage or loans to cope with legal problems over cars in Spain , for which customers were given access to a phone numnber until 15 days after coming home .
29 LAST year Britain tabled a directive at the Maastricht Treaty negotiations which offered much-needed protection to zoo and farm animals in the EC .
30 Although the Accord was approved by most of the provinces by the end of 1988 , Manitoba and New Brunswick had withheld ratification on the grounds that it offered insufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority .
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