Example sentences of "it grant " in BNC.

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1 For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages …
2 It grants outline planning permission for the construction of those works prescribed by the Act but the detail still has to be agreed through the normal planning process .
3 Whatever one thinks about this draft — and most lawyers who have studied it reckon it to be reasonably good , though it grants the president extensive powers that could be abused — the real issue has been how to get it adopted as Russia 's new constitution .
4 The United Kingdom , the Kingdom of Belgium and the Hellenic Republic argue , however , that the position is different when it comes to the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thinks fit the conditions upon which it grants to a vessel the right to fly its flag .
5 Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent .
6 This is especially the case with the liberal democratic form of the state whose claim to legitimacy rests on the access to the political system which it grants to non-dominant interests .
7 Illustrate the bank 's profit-maximising balance sheet on the assumption that it grants new advances .
8 It illustrates the pyramiding effect of interbank lending which means that no single customer or bank can be sure of where credit , i.e. deposits loaned , it extends will end up ( Shell 's deposit was loaned by Barclays to Lloyds and the latter used it to grant a loan to BP ) .
9 And it granted Mr Gorbachev most of the new powers he had requested ( though it rejected his clumsy proposal for a system of local inspectors to help enforce presidential decrees ) .
10 THE EAST LANCS Railway scored a double this summer when it granted power distributor NORWEB permission to lay a nest of six , 33Kv cables along a part of the ELR right-of-way , then secured a three-week contract to haul some of the materials by rail to and from the construction site .
11 It granted him strength and power so great that he would n't need his enabling potions .
12 ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; …
13 The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag .
14 International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel .
15 Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations .
16 As one of the four original components of the US-administered UN Trust Territory of the Pacific , Belau had negotiated a Compact of Free Association with the USA , but this compact had never become operative , as the rights which it granted to the USA to determine defence and foreign policy issues conflicted with the clauses of Belau 's Constitution which forbade the entry , storage or disposal of nuclear , chemical or biological weapons .
17 Ms Oruene claimed that the faculty had varied to her detriment the terms on which it granted membership .
18 They believe the court was mistaken last year when it granted a petition making the university authorities sole trustee , clearing the way for the proposed sale .
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