Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] permission " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A YOUNG wife whose husband is in a coma after a road accident has been refused permission to store some of his sperm . |
| 8 | Mothers who 're campaigning to keep it open say demand for places is growing , but the school has been refused permission to expand . |
| 9 | The Church In Wales has been refused permission for a new church in the centre of Mynydd Isa . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The accused claimed that he had been granted permission by a supervisor to take scrap tyres from a certain firm . |
| 14 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 15 | For many years , no outside organisation had been given permission by the Vietnamese government to establish themselves in their country . |
| 16 | Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The captain had been given permission by his superiors in Hamburg to sail for any port which would accept his passengers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Reports from the country last night said that Shachar has spoken to Souness , and had been given permission to speak to the player . |
| 24 | The students had been given permission by Darlington council to unearth what they hoped would be important medieval remains in Clark 's Yard , Darlington . |
| 25 | At a meeting soon afterwards , and having laid out its draft proposal for Newton , it had been given permission to go ahead with detailed planning although it did not offer the same safety provisions . |
| 26 | He had dropped the joviality , even dropped as well the slightly secretive air of one who had been given permission to tell , but not all . |
| 27 | There were other reports that judges had been refused permission to appear on television in the early 1980s . |
| 28 | The students demonstrating on Jan. 7 had been refused permission to hold their rally in Victory Square in central Bucharest , the authorities having cited security concerns . |
| 29 | The ship had spent eight days searching for a port in which to dock , and had been refused permission to dock by the Aden port authorities on June 19 . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |