Example sentences of "[subord] offer [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No need at all , except to offer a friendly word of advice . ’
2 Typically though he refuses to make any outrageous predictions , except to offer the view that it will take time to get the club back up and running .
3 The trouble is that museum exhibitions , as traditionally arranged , do little more than offer a catalogue of seemingly-unrelated assertions about the subject matter .
4 But I will do no more than offer a few remarks about their rights and wrongs , focusing instead on the most productive ways in which teachers can develop and promote their own positions .
5 I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics .
6 Although this programme can not do more than offer an introduction to the mastery of the skills needed by instructors , it is nevertheless of considerable importance in that it is a measured and significant attempt to provide the sort of training upon which the success of YOP and , even more important its successor , the Youth Training Scheme , will depend .
7 Museums which take this grant , while doing little more than offer the occasional public lecture , or some minimal help to schoolteachers who arrive with their pupils , risk having such financial support severely cut back , or even withdrawn .
8 In this chapter I have done more to highlight some of the problems in reaching a definition of God than to offer a solution of my own .
9 Business hospitality When business is done and the meeting concluded , nothing revives the hardworking executive like a glass of Scotch … and when it 's time to seal the deal with valued clients , there is no more fitting toast nor better appreciated mark of esteem than to offer the noble spirit .
10 Even the medium of an academic thesis ( 1978 ) has been used by John Crompton , her colleague at Newcastle University , to express his scorn rather than offer a cool evaluation .
11 Instead , most books make pious noises about more research being required rather than offering a frank discussion the of areas of ignorance .
12 Being a backbench Member of Parliament rounded off his life rather than offering a springboard for future achievement .
13 Culley opened the front door , then paused to look back at Reid , who turned , seeming to be taking the child protectively out of Culley 's vision rather than offering a goodbye .
14 ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay .
15 The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands .
16 He suggested the Church should concentrate its message on violence rather than offering a view on the Social Chapter .
17 Services also tend to take this segmented approach rather than offering an integrated package of support services to families .
18 But this , Taylor and Cameron argue , " rather than offering the analyst direct access to the participants ' own publically displayed identification of units and rules , only postpones the task to a subsequent turn " ( p. 121 ) .
19 On the other hand , the HMI 's nine areas of experience , although offering an interesting alternative , appear to have a certain arbitrariness about them , especially when one ( technological ) is added with no explanation as to why .
20 I think Wilko would accept if offerred the job .
21 ‘ Why , under diplomatic regulations of the third of the third thirty-third , AD , an itinerant , interplanetarily famous performing troupe without identification may not be restrained , destrained , strained or constrained , ad hoc , to wit and in lieu , until offered the exercise of its right of diffraction , ’ recited Marco .
22 Derek and Pat are highly articulate about the finer points of many of the drab little livebearers ( some of which like Goodeids and the Mosquito fish , improve colour remarkably if offered a summer sojourn in a pond .
23 The drama student , on successfully completing an acting or stage management training course at an NCDT accredited school registers with Equity , thereby becoming eligible for membership of the union if offered an engagement in any of the areas of work listed above .
24 Nevertheless , even allowing for these exceptions , the traditional division into figurative and non-figurative regions is largely valid , and you should be extremely suspicious if offered an Afghan or Bokhara rug that contains human or animal forms .
25 6 ) My baby at about 3 to 4 months was fully breastfed when he started a feeding for a couple of minutes and then screaming still obviously hungry but still screaming if offered the breast again .
26 Certainly , if offered the choice between Quigley and an eighty-foot beige monster with a corkscrew head , I knew where my allegiance would lie .
27 Tearing off her single garment , she stood naked before them , proud little breasts pointing upwards as if to offer the cherries of her nipples to the Papua moon .
28 Thus treatment with salt ( or with freshwater for marine fish ) , formalin , quaternary ammonium compounds , malachite green , and antibiotics for example can be given at high dose for short duration , making them more effective against the disease organisms while offering a better safety margin to the fish through shorter contact time .
29 Praised for being economical and concise while offering a clear definition of mental illness and its own activities , its second ever entry also made effective use of colour and included a prioritised , strategic plan .
30 Andrew Wilton 's conception of the show is designed to work on several levels , and should be ‘ genuinely accessible ’ to the non-specialist visitor in terms of the beauty and importance of the objects while offering a coherent reading to the specialist .
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