Example sentences of "[noun sg] offers [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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1 | In the 1629 session he told the Commons that ‘ religion offers itself to your first consideration at this time ’ , and reproached the Speaker for undue readiness to obey the king 's orders . |
2 | Obviously , when sport offers itself as one of the few accessible routes away from deprivation , as it was to the early slaves , it takes on an attractive quality . |
3 | It is as if by doing so a woman offers herself , ritually cleansed , to be entirely controlled by her husband . |
4 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
5 | At the same time , the film offers itself for ‘ simultaneous collective experience ’ and the reason why critical and affirmative attitudes can fuse is because ‘ individual reactions are predetermined by the mass audience response they are about to produce … |