Example sentences of "[be] offered [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're offered bacon and fried eggs . |
| 2 | They are offered life without rest . |
| 3 | Infertile couples are offered specialist advice . |
| 4 | They are offered cups of tea from a steaming cauldron by British soldiers . |
| 5 | in their book , discussion ranges over many methodologies in many countries and readers are offered choices . |
| 6 | They are determined to crack down on players moving when they are offered inducements . |
| 7 | In the context of a petrol station , the risk-averse are offered a salary plus a small performance bonus for running the station , whereas the less risk-averse are offered petrol at wholesale price and are free to decide how to behave . |
| 8 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |
| 9 | The attack was stepped up by Raghib Ahsan , of Birmingham Ladywood , who told the conference : ‘ We are offered scraps from the masters ’ table , and hungry as we are for black representation , our response must be to spit them out . ’ |
| 10 | if you are offered payment for any outside activity undertaken as a result of your employment in the ES or for any invention developed during your employment with the ES ; |
| 11 | Drivers are offered talks illustrated with videos followed at the end of the course by an assessment of driving with an advanced instructor . |
| 12 | Where management are not borrowing and so do not need to obtain interest relief , and vendor shareholders wish to obtain capital gains tax deferral and are offered debentures in Newco for their Target shares , it may be possible to use a partnership to acquire control of Target but also incorporate a Newco ( owned by the partnership ) to issue the debentures . |
| 13 | It 's amazing how easy and tempting it is to eat a little more when we are offered food of a different flavour and texture — the dessert after a savoury meal , for instance . |
| 14 | Due to the high level of ‘ burnout ’ common in such chefs , few are offered jobs . |
| 15 | If you are offered antibiotics remember that many of them have side-effects and can leave you feeling worse than before . |
| 16 | Schools tend to be more effective when the relationship between the teachers and pupils is ‘ good ’ and when the latter are offered status and respect ; when expectations are high ; when there is an emphasis on rewarding good , rather than punishing bad , behaviour ; when there is an overall approach characteristically described as neither permissive nor authoritarian . |
| 17 | Disabled people are offered employment consistent with their capabilities . |
| 18 | Even if people in this state are able to get themselves going as far as applying for jobs and are offered interviews , they fail to get them because the image they put across is one of a lackadaisical , flattened dullard — and who would want to employ someone who 's in that state ? |
| 19 | When people with a mental handicap are offered relationships within a sacred context , they can grow both humanly and spiritually . |
| 20 | In an unusual ‘ vote of confidence ’ , all Kent 's players have been offered contracts which last until the end of the 1994 season . |
| 21 | Although Rhys has now been offered treatment in Bristol , subject to ethical approval and a suitable donor being forthcoming , ‘ valuable , perhaps literally vital time has been lost ’ . |
| 22 | The 65-year-old actress wanted to quit Murder She Wrote , but she 's now been offered $300,000 an episode . |
| 23 | He had been offered university , naturally , but went ‘ home ’ , this time to India . |
| 24 | Having been offered shelter by one of the Armstrongs , Hector of Hardlaw , whom he had helped some years previously , he was treacherously handed over to the Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland since Mary 's enforced abdication . |
| 25 | Dudley Wood , the Rugby Football Union 's secretary , said yesterday : ‘ I spoke to Brian Moore a little while ago because there was a story that he had been offered money , although the amount was n't specified . |
| 26 | The team found 60 per cent had been offered drugs and 36 per cent tried them . |
| 27 | Mr Reid said the matter came to light after a pupil informed a teacher that he had been offered drugs by the suspended boy . |
| 28 | Of two hundred and forty people who returned their questionaires to the students union , seventy nine per cent said they 'd been offered drugs . |
| 29 | YOUNGSTERS in Northern Ireland smoke more , drink less and have been offered drugs more often than their British counterparts . |
| 30 | It revealed Ulster youngsters were the most likely to have been offered drugs ( 21pc compared with a national average of 10pc ) , were least likely to drink ( 21pc compared with 30pc ) but were most likely to smoke ( 36pc compared with 18pc ) . |