Example sentences of "be granted the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Part-time , temporary workers will be granted the same social provisions as full-time employees . |
| 2 | A statement is expected before Christmas on how many of Hong Kong 's 3 million British passport-holders are to be granted the right of residence in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | We were both carrying packets of condoms , too , as an extra precaution , should we be granted the favours of some fair señorita or visit the red-light district , the barrio chino . |
| 4 | Young people are keen to be granted the privileges of being adult , while parents major on the responsibilities involved . |
| 5 | Television was still too scarce a resource — and politically and commercially too important — to be granted the freedom to exploit the richness and diversity of contemporary life . |
| 6 | Child rearing is more ‘ permissive ’ , and while children may not be granted the status of equal partners in the family decision-making process , they are no longer simply expected to be seen and not heard . |
| 7 | Henry and he made a treaty of alliance , agreeing that Richard should be betrothed to one of the Count 's daughters and that , when married , they should be granted the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 8 | There is one fundamental condition that any hypothesis or system of hypotheses must satisfy if it is to be granted the status of a scientific law or theory . |
| 9 | In November 1990 the Federal Court ruled that women in the half-canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden , the last bastion of male-only suffrage in Europe , should be granted the vote at cantonal and communal level [ see p. 37867 ] . |
| 10 | Under the terms of the agreement ( reached in principle in May — see pp. 38221-22 ) , the 17,000 Inuit in the region ( who constituted some 80 per cent of the area 's total population ) would be granted the right to hunt , fish and trap within Nunavut . |
| 11 | This was the first year that Environment Achievement Awards have been made , so Johnson Matthey was particularly proud to have been included among the 12 initial companies to be granted the new honour . |
| 12 | Let us pray that we may be granted the wisdom necessary to discern the values of the new culture created by the mass media , and to use the opportunities offered by modern communications technology always for the service of God and the good of his people . |