Example sentences of "granted [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Age travellers were warned by police to leave a farm at Hillersland in Gloucestershire , site of a weekend festival , after the festival organiser was granted eviction orders . |
| 2 | AFTER six years of tortuous legal battles , Mr Thomas Mathew was yesterday granted permission in the High Court for a full trial in his action against the solicitor who held his brother 's will for £4 million . |
| 3 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 4 | Through the efforts of Indian Inspector General John O'Neill , Joseph was granted permission to visit Washington with Yellow Bull and veteran interpreter Arthur Chapman , to meet President Hayes . |
| 5 | And City staff needing a quick flight to Zurich , Stockholm , Brussels or Paris were pleased that jets were finally granted permission to land at Silvertown 's airport last September . |
| 6 | The row began in 1985 when Mr Phillips was granted permission to resite the gates at the entrance to the mile-long lime avenue nearer to the house . |
| 7 | Having granted permission to go ashore , I 've been promised trout for supper , although he 's never caught anything worth eating yet . |
| 8 | Melrose was granted permission to return to play the amateur code by the New South Wales Rugby Union after an eight-month dispute where Melrose threatened to take legal action . |
| 9 | And , despite the fact that the movement was then extremely suspicious of any outsiders , let alone sociologists , I was granted permission to study the Unification Church on my own terms ( independent funding , a complete list of the membership and access to all members ) — albeit after a lengthy period of negotiation . |
| 10 | We submitted a proposal to the Court of Common Pleas that oversees the Johnson Collection , and in 1989 were granted permission to proceed . |
| 11 | But despite this , and the mine would lie partly within a National Scenic Area , Perth and Kinross District Council have granted permission . |
| 12 | Today , however , for the first time since the period of mourning had ended , she had been granted permission to call upon the young prince — to stay a week and celebrate his birthday . |
| 13 | He pointed to the sky and then to the clearing , to the path that led to the cabin where Sycorax lay , and Kit understood that he had been granted permission to remain three cycles of the moon . |
| 14 | They wound Sycorax 's light dry spoil in two banana leaves , laid lengthwise and sewn together with dried strips of aloe , and then chose to dig a vertical grave at the foot of the saman tree , the designated place , for which they had been granted permission . |
| 15 | We thank you for those in Exeter who have granted permission for the work that has been done on this church building , and for the help that has been given towards the planning of the new building . |
| 16 | On May 27 the government had granted permission to the Aga Khan Foundation for Economic Development ( AKFED ) to operate a private airline to compete with the state-run Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ) on domestic routes . |
| 17 | The journalists , Fan Liqing and Guo Weifeng , were granted permission by the authorities to cover the trial of a group of Chinese fisherman arrested off Taiwan in July and accused of theft and piracy . |
| 18 | The Finance Minister , Wolde Mariam Girma , was granted permission to resign on Dec. 3 . |
| 19 | They confirmed that of those many companies within the United Kingdom , only 850 have been granted permission — of which an exclusive six are in the business of carpet manufacturing . |
| 20 | On returning to Germany further studies were undertaken in Munich and Berlin before being granted permission to open a movement school in his own name in 1929 . |
| 21 | The accused claimed that he had been granted permission by a supervisor to take scrap tyres from a certain firm . |
| 22 | Erm , that would all be based in the station centre , erm , as I say , we 've also been granted permission to use the site behind and planning permission is on the way through now , that 's looking good . |
| 23 | National Power was also granted permission earlier this year for a station at Staythorpe in Nottinghamshire . |
| 24 | They 're angry he was even granted permission to appeal . |
| 25 | The company behind the plan , Bybrook Waste and Power formerly known as Urban Waste and Power said that the plant , if granted permission , would be among the best in the world . |
| 26 | In 1988 they were granted permission to operate on 15 Sundays in any year but that permission expired in December last year . |
| 27 | The Department of Transport finally granted permission for the scheme in February following over ten years of lobbying of Southwark Council by JS . |
| 28 | It was renamed Gallaudet College in 1894 in honour of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet , founder in 1817 of the first American school for the deaf at Hartford , Connecticut , and became Gallaudet University , on being granted university status in 1987 . |
| 29 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 30 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |