Example sentences of "had been offered the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Baird was there for a further two years before leaving in 1987 with chef Barry Forster , who had been offered the position of head chef at Longueville Manor on Jersey . |
2 | One of those gentry was Viscount Fauconberg , who had married Mary , the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell , in the same year as Cromwell had been offered the crown ( 1657 ) and they occupied Sutton Court , a mansion in the Little Sutton area , south of Turnham Green . |
3 | He would tell friends that , if , after he had taken the Civil Service Competition in 1946 , he had been offered the Treasury instead of the Ministry of Civil Aviation , he would have stayed in Whitehall and eschewed a political career . |
4 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
5 | In the light of paragraph ( b ) the seller having a monopoly will be more likely to succeed if the buyer had been offered the chance of buying the goods , perhaps at a slightly higher price , on terms not including the exemption clause . |
6 | In addition , 20 of the worst asthmatic patients in the district , who had been identified mainly between 1978 and 1982 and had been offered the option of self admission , were all alive in 1992 . |
7 | A letter had been received from E. Coleman , surgeon , of Palsgrave Place , Temple , but this was held in abeyance until 7 January 1794 , A week later , Clark of Edinburgh , who had been offered the post of professor , was asked to make his mind up , whereupon he declined the appointment . |
8 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |