1.  A balanced budget amendment is often offered as a solution.

2.  A bank must offer an adequate explanation of all its charges.

3.  A bare handful of cable Markets offer community news services, produced at the lowest possible cost.

4.  A better overall service should be offered with, hopefully, an accompanying increase in fee income.

5.  A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living.

6.  A boyfriend offered me a weekend in Amman, with no strings attached.

7.  A Braintree man was cleared of an affray charge yesterday when the prosecution offered no further evidence against him.

8.  A cable system has two types of customers-advertisers and consumers who subscribe to a package of programming offered by the cable operator.

9.  A cardiologist was offered kickbacks by a pacemaker manufacturer.