Example sentences of "be give permission " in BNC.

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1 Only VIPs and foreign diplomatic missions are given permission to utilise such dishes .
2 An important aspect of these therapies is that people are given permission to cry and are guided through the experience .
3 A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners .
4 ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill .
5 Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders .
6 For many years , no outside organisation had been given permission by the Vietnamese government to establish themselves in their country .
7 It is the first time a former officer has been given permission to write about MI5 since Sir Percy Sillitoe , the post-war head of the service , published his memoirs in 1955 .
8 He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany .
9 Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors .
10 While those in Canada are pushed around , those on the other side of the border have been given permission by Washington to run bingo halls , the only legitimate gambling in the area .
11 A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce .
12 The eccentric Cantona jetted hastily back to France after being dropped from the side at QPR , although at the time the club claimed he had been given permission .
13 Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb .
14 ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it .
15 The Industrial Bank of Japan , the Long Term Credit Bank and the agricultural Norinchukin Bank have already been given permission to establish such subsidiaries .
16 But a Birmingham SSD spokeswoman said that , far from absconding , Cattell had been given permission to leave the community home with education to visit her mother .
17 In many areas of social policy , local authorities have been given permission to provide a service , then , when the need for the service has been clearly demonstrated and resources for it are more widely available , the provision has become mandatory .
18 The captain had been given permission by his superiors in Hamburg to sail for any port which would accept his passengers .
19 Nesbitt had met the Sultan on the outskirts of Aussa and been given permission to continue northwards across the lava desert to Eritrea , but was forbidden to enter Aussa , which remained unexplored .
20 Two marvellous collections of photographs came to light — Miss Puckle 's and Mr Emmanuel Beddoes ' — I have been given permission to use these , and many others lent by individuals .
21 National Power and PowerGen have been given permission to burn that fuel at their power stations at Pembroke , Richborough and Ince .
22 A Thai Army official admitted on Jan. 2 , 1990 , that Myanma soldiers had crossed the Moei river but denied that they had been given permission to do so .
23 The opposition groups , ranging from social democrats and liberals to Christians , nationalists and anarchists , had been given permission by the Moscow city council and the USSR Council of Ministers to march after the official parade organized by the trade unions , apparently to pre-empt the holding of a larger unofficial demonstration which might have clashed with the official parade .
24 Friends of the Earth has been given permission by the High Court to pursue a legal case against the government over the level of pesticides in drinking water in the Thames and Anglian regions .
25 Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death .
26 A man who was apparently brain damaged during an operation has been given permission to sue for damages … even though the operation took place twenty five years ago .
27 It 's the first time students have been given permission to broadcast outside a campus .
28 David Ashford , who 's a teacher , had even been given permission to take twelve weeks off work .
29 Reports from the country last night said that Shachar has spoken to Souness , and had been given permission to speak to the player .
30 JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth .
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