Example sentences of "have been granted [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jose Urbina Lara , leader of the group , who stormed the embassy on 8 March , stayed behind at the airport but was expected to leave later for the Dominican Republic , where he has been granted asylum . |
| 2 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 3 | A man accused of murder has been granted bail by magistrates . |
| 4 | Nitto Albion , an Anglo Japanese Consortium , has been granted planning permission for the golf course , but pressure groups such as the Ramblers Association objected because existing paths would have to be diverted . |
| 5 | Wm Low Supermarkets has been granted planning permission for a store and car park on the Ladbrokes Retail Park site in the town 's Grahams Road . |
| 6 | With a 5% exclusion clause only one of these parties would have been granted representation , and the complex process of forming a government would have been much less painful . |
| 7 | Leon Trotsky himself arrived in Mexico in early January 1937 , having been granted asylum by president Cárdenas . |
| 8 | Following them was Kim Philby , who escaped to Moscow just ahead of MI5 in 1962 , and Anthony Blunt , who finally confessed in 1964 to being a long-time and important Russian spy only after having been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 9 | They were presumably responsible for supervising the civil settlement outside the fort and , in particular , the Sarmatian veterans who had been granted land in its vicinity . |
| 10 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 11 | We observed one very tense episode in which some panel members believed that in the act of creation the panel had been granted independence from the coordinating committee . |
| 12 | She had been granted absolution of her sins , but had died protesting her innocence to the last . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The accused claimed that he had been granted permission by a supervisor to take scrap tyres from a certain firm . |
| 17 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 18 | At least in manufacturing , fixed-term contract workers were more likely to be found in establishments where unions had a higher level of membership or had been granted recognition . |
| 19 | It was reported on Aug. 9 that Albania had been granted observer status at the Vienna talks on confidence- and security-building measures ( CSBM ) , part of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 20 | The Russian TASS news agency announced on May 15 that Russia had been granted observer status at the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 21 | The Kazakhstan news agency , KazTAg , reported on Oct. 1 that Kazakhstan had been granted observer status at the GATT session in Geneva on Sept. 29 . |
| 22 | Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own . |
| 23 | The timber had been granted export certificates in the Philippines , in an apparent contravention of the export ban . |
| 24 | However , if they had been granted representation proportionate to their minute share of those votes , four or five of their candidates could have become MdBs : the exclusion clause served to prevent that . |
| 25 | The existing law stated that only those who had been granted citizenship would be enfranchised . |
| 26 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 27 | Her immediate subordinate , James C. Smith , had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Church Commissioners have been granted outline planning permission for residential development on a plot of land at the corner of the main road and Colliery Road at Auton Stile , Bearpark . |
| 30 | This process is now being reversed and increasing numbers of new family farmers have been granted land from the collective and state farms . |