Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] offer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , this particular Conservative administration did offer social policies which were designed both to indicate its commitment to dealing with social problems and to undermine the challenge of Labour . |
| 2 | It will therefore be crucial to ensure that re-investigation does offer real quality improvement so that the additional weight attached to it is factually justified . |
| 3 | This denies market participants the opportunity to argue that a particular merger or dominant firm practice does offer efficiency gains . |
| 4 | Whilst it is not a direct replacement for traditional gum based watercolours , this recently introduced paint range does offer watercolourists some distinct advantages . |
| 5 | Despite the general level of the analysis , which offers ‘ scepticism ’ as a further quality to add to ‘ logic ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ as characteristics associated with literacy , this passage does offer a more precise formulation of what Goody has in mind as the consequences of literacy . |
| 6 | Well , NAV does offer protection against all common ‘ wild ’ viruses , and at £149 it 's reasonable value for money . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the editor does offer several advantages over that of , say , Sir Clive Sinclair 's Z88 laptop — notably the excellent undelete and block operations . |
| 8 | Facilities management does offer suppliers ‘ significant long-term opportunities within an overall IT services portfolio ’ , he believes . |
| 9 | I think British Airways offer a fair deal erm but it 's not necessarily the largest deal , they invest a lot in in their service and what they do , and I think erm Virgin do offer generous deals . |
| 10 | To begin with , conductive education does offer a positive approach to a clear set of goals , whether you agree with them or not . |
| 11 | While conductive education does offer an alternative vision , it is unfortunate that this vision implies the removal of burden and shame through the achievement of normality . |
| 12 | In addition , conductive education does offer higher expectations than those to which special education has aspired . |
| 13 | Eventually these persons might have to face up to a period of crisis , of self-examination , and so achieve ego-identity by route C. However , foreclosure does offer an escape route and an individual might postpone indefinitely any real self-examination by clinging rigidly to his [ or her ] beliefs and values ( route D ) . |
| 14 | The Forest park and ride attendant tells me they 're fairly busy but with still parking space site for the moment and there 's room to park on the Colwick Race Course and the Queens Drive site too and that 's service does offer free parking for yourself and your passengers and you can travel into and out of the city again for a pound . |
| 15 | He is very unselfishly standing down from this scheme although the Group Captain did offer him a place on it in recognition of his services to the committee . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the family did cushion the blow of job loss for some women and their domestic role did offer a way of making sense of their experience . |
| 17 | The government did offer a reward of £30,000 for the Pretender 's capture , to which he cheekily replied with an offer of the same sum for ‘ The Elector of Hanover ’ , but the authorities in Scotland reacted feebly and reluctantly to the news . |
| 18 | But the House of Love do offer something of their own — a willingness to play around with the pace of the music , cutting off the power to switch suddenly into a softer , more lyrical approach . |
| 19 | HP does offer multiprocessing on the 9000 series 800 servers and although it already has multiprocessing desktops up and running in the labs , the company says it is still in the process of deciding whether to bring these to market sooner or later . |
| 20 | However , the Commerce and Industry Group of the Law Society does offer a range of lectures and meetings which have proved to be useful . |
| 21 | The Budget did offer more hope to unemployed disabled people , who will now be given priority in the vocational education initiative and in the Community Action programme . |
| 22 | But despite its drawbacks , primogeniture did offer a rule of thumb that commanded widespread respect . |
| 23 | Once created the program does offer the option of Saving them to tape or disc and then Loading them back . |
| 24 | But despite this , Foucault 's essay on The History of Sexuality does offer a most stimulating challenge to traditional historical accounts , partly because of its undermining of conventional approaches , partly because it is an aspect of a much wider intellectual effort , whose implications are likely to be of major importance . |
| 25 | Firstly , despite the functionalist tendencies already mentioned , The History of Sexuality does offer an alternative view of seeing the relationship between sexuality and wider social forces to the traditional functionalism of many ( particularly ) left interpretations , which tend to see a direct relationship between the nuclear family and organisation of sexuality , either in the interests of capitalism or as directly responsive to the urges of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 26 | The Bike Tent does offer complete protection from the elements through using a durable , breathable Cascade coated material , said to help avoid condensation . |
| 27 | However , neurophysiology does offer some encouragement . |
| 28 | If the new system does offer real advantages then peer-group pressure might take over after a time and accelerate the change-over . |