Example sentences of "offered for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He pointed out that the structural basis of human behaviour must be rooted in the gregarious nature of primates and the potentialities thereby offered for the socialization of individual experience .
2 Mrs Hayden said special prayers were offered for the boys during a service at the school yesterday .
3 The transfer tickets are , therefore , being offered for the Waterloo to Portsmouth return run on Friday , February 12th .
4 A similar economic explanation was offered for the rise of the ‘ house of correction ’ ( the forerunner of the modern prison ) from the end of the sixteenth century on .
5 Therefore , to avoid any confusion , the interpretations have been based solely on a comparison of the rates charged for Cessna 150/152s , as these make up about 45 per cent of the aircraft offered for the purpose of basic training or hire .
6 Alton Abbey , offered for the purpose by Father Hopkins could provide accommodation for about 200 German seamen , but this was insufficient .
7 A reward was offered for the head of every Macgregor delivered to the laird ; families were encouraged to betray their own people with promises of pardon ; women were branded on the forehead ; children were sold as little better than slaves to Lowland and Irish cattle dealers .
8 Will she agree that in fact no rationale was offered for the end of the cycling working er party other than the desire to reduce committees ?
9 A ten thousand pound reward is being offered for the recovery of six rare birds which were stolen from a bird sanctuary .
10 When faced with an example of adaptedness in behaviour , at least three explanations can be offered for the process of adaptation .
11 I 'd picked the Bloomsbury address from a handful of alternatives Patterson had offered for the set-up as the easiest route and also the time , early afternoon , though in town these days the traffic was a matter of pot luck with the odds stacked on it being bad .
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