Example sentences of "is offer a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A workforce , on strike over lay-offs , is offered a return-to-work package which includes significant changes in conditions , among them a wage freeze . |
| 2 | Londonderry mother Frances McGinley said today she intends to camp outside the Waterloo Street Housing Executive office until she is offered a suitable house . |
| 3 | The marine fishkeeper is offered a wonderful array of colours . |
| 4 | With Ilford XP2 , the professional user is offered a high speed film which will benefit from the tight quality control of negative processing available through a professionally monitored C41 process . |
| 5 | The first is to offer a systematic analysis of the practical choices confronted by a group of scientists in the course of their work . |
| 6 | If notation is to offer a self-evident ordering , then it is important that the symbols used for the notation have a self-evident order in themselves . |
| 7 | ICL is to offer a shrink-wrapped version of Unix SVR4 on its so-called ‘ Spring Collection ’ of deskside and desktop Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers and servers launched recently , and says it may offer that implementation on other manufacturers ' PCs too . |
| 8 | Central Broadcasting 's Managing Director , Andy Allan , says how important it is to offer a good mixture of regional programmes with news at the heart . |
| 9 | The intention is to offer a speedy point of enquiry for professionals from different agencies who may be worried about a particular child . |
| 10 | An alternative approach is to offer a single examination by flexible sigmoidoscopy to the whole population at age 55 . |
| 11 | Red-brick universities , inner-city polytechnics and the Open University have dented that assumption ; but perhaps there are still features of the student experience which we should hold on to if higher education is to offer a cultural enlargement ? |
| 12 | One can invoke , too , Ricks 's insistence that the language of the agenda sets the terms of the debate : to speak of ‘ principles ’ and ‘ faith ’ is to offer an alternative discourse to the invocation of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 13 | I rasp with the confidence of someone who is offering a constructive alternative , but with the sharp edge of a man who is losing patience . |
| 14 | Inghams , for example , is offering a two-bedroom apartment with a huge living room overlooking the Matterhorn in the four star Hotel Ambassador in Zermatt in mid March for just over £300 for a week each , if it 's occupied by six people . |
| 15 | In Four Quartets , Eliot is providing a consummation of the European tradition , just as he is offering a coherent account of his own poetic development . |
| 16 | ‘ That young fellow Robertson has got himself a market share and nobody else is offering a similar product . ’ |
| 17 | Nobody wants to close any bed that is offering a good quality service , that is wanted and being used . |
| 18 | For readers who would like to fix until the next millennium , Birmingham Midshires has is offering a fixed rate of 8.49 per cent until 31 January , 2000 . |
| 19 | Amdahl Corp is offering a new availability management service to customers that need 99% or better uptime from their mainframes . |
| 20 | Raymond Salisbury-Jones 's aviation company is offering a new way to entertain demanding business clients — but only if you have a fairly weighty expense account . |
| 21 | The academic scientist who seeks and identifies a new chemical messenger is providing his industrial colleagues with the basis for a whole new range of drugs , and the industrial pharmacologist who screens a range of new chemical entities and finds one which alters the behaviour of the brain is offering a new tool for his academic brethren . |
| 22 | Electa again , this time in Venice , is offering a new edition of Cennino Cennini 's Il libro dell'arte , which marks the transition from fourteenth-century workshop culture to Renaissance production methods . |
| 23 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 24 | Terence believes that every hairdresser should have two pairs of scissors , if they are truly professional , and is offering a free pair to each of the first five orders received from Hairflair readers . |
| 25 | And totes is offering a free pair of its Nassau-style sunglasses to the first 50 readers to write to : . |
| 26 | Simply Tropix ( 081-875 1777 ) is offering a free night if you book 5 nights at the Excelsior ( guaranteed harbour view ) £630 ( Feb ) . |
| 27 | TIME OFF is offering a free night on selected three and four-night stays in Italy until mid-March ( excluding Christmas ) . |
| 28 | Tadpole is offering a free copy of Lotus 1–2-3 with its Sparcbook notebooks as part of a Power Perks promotion . |
| 29 | American Independence is offering a free place for the first child , in Lake Tahoe in California , with the second child paying Pounds 169 . |
| 30 | For if nature is offering a sturdy resistance to man 's efforts to wring from her a larger supply of raw material , while at that particular stage there is no great room for introducing important new economies into the manufacture , the supply price will rise ; but if the volume of production were greater , it would perhaps be profitable to substitute largely machine work for hand work and steam power for muscular force ; and the increase in the volume of production would have diminished the expenses of production of the commodity of our representative firm . [ … ] |