Example sentences of "[vb past] be given permission [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years , no outside organisation had been given permission by the Vietnamese government to establish themselves in their country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The captain had been given permission by his superiors in Hamburg to sail for any port which would accept his passengers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The students had been given permission by Darlington council to unearth what they hoped would be important medieval remains in Clark 's Yard , Darlington . |