Example sentences of "they [be] offered the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Christmas they were offered shares ; now they are offered the dole . |
| 2 | Recent surveys find 80% of Americans in favour , though the proportion drops when they are offered the alternative of a life imprisonment that genuinely means for life . |
| 3 | if it 's just like one exam or two exams that they 've failed or they 've been ill for or they 've missed or something they 're offered the opportunity to sit those in September then we have another exam board in September |
| 4 | At what price are they being offered the business ? |
| 5 | SIX stage-struck students from St Mary 's Sixth Form College , Middlesbrough , seized the chance of a lifetime this week when they were offered the opportunity of working with the Royal Shakespeare Company , says a recent school report . |
| 6 | Once eligible for inclusion in the study , the nature of the trial was explained to the patients and they were offered the treatment allocated by randomisation . |
| 7 | His father was a farm administrator , and that went , too , when they were offered the chance to leave Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | Now they were offered the chance to nominate a Governor ; this they declined , understandably in view of what had happened . |
| 9 | They were offered the job and it has been working very well . |