Example sentences of "[was/were] granted [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They soon had to leave the School Cottage where they had lived , but they were granted a payment of £5 for " the bath and fittings " left in the cottage , which was quickly rented out to provide a valuable £35 a year of extra income . |
| 2 | In France the post-mortem period is , typically , fifty years but those authors and artists affected by the two World Wars were granted a prolongation of the copyright term , giving an effective expiry of just over sixty-four years after their death . |
| 3 | Anchor International were granted a liquor licence by magistrates on May 13 , leaving the way clear to build a ten-pitch , £1.25m complex on the site . |
| 4 | The means was to restrict the legal provision of credit to those who applied for it and were granted a licence . |
| 5 | Details were being finalised today after the promoters , ESP , were granted a licence , on appeal , despite strong objections from local residents and the police , who fear there is the potential for a major disaster … |
| 6 | This became increasingly unpopular , and when the British were granted a monopoly over the sale of Iranian tobacco , massive protests followed and the government was forced to cancel the agreement . |
| 7 | Burton Albion were granted a replay against Leicester in 1984–85 after their goalkeeper was hit by a missile . |
| 8 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 9 | Thus many of the early joint.stock enterprises which were granted the privilege of corporate identity were concerned with building and operating canals and railways . |
| 10 | At some stage during his early career he and his mother Joan were granted the manor of Eastington on the Isle of Purbeck , Dorset , by the priory of Christ Church Twynham , to be held for their lifetimes . |
| 11 | In 1534 they were granted the right to coin money . |
| 12 | Three stone lighter and a virtual insomniac , she has campaigned tirelessly for their release and her efforts were rewarded last week when Michelle and Lisa were granted the right to appeal against their conviction for the murder of Alison O'Shaughnessy . |
| 13 | The earliest record of iron extraction is found in a charter of AD 689 in which the monks of Canterbury were granted the right to mine ore at Lympne ( O'Niell 1967 , p. 189 ) . |
| 14 | The peasants were authorized to parcel out the private estates while legal ownership of all land was vested in the State ; factory committees were given broad powers to vet the actions of management ; the minorities were granted the right of self-determination ; each regiment was authorized to negotiate armistice terms . |
| 15 | They were granted the right to build telegraph lines across the country so that London could be closer touch with India . |
| 16 | A year later Thurland , and others , including Höchstetter , English merchants , and members of the nobility , were granted the right to open and work mines , and events now moved with swiftness . |
| 17 | In an agreement signed with Amazonian gold prospectors on Jan. 9 , 1990 , under the auspices of the National Security Council , miners were granted the right to continue prospecting in three areas totalling about 686 sq km , and at the same time the reduction of the size of the Yanomami Indian reservation to 19 separate " islands " of forest was confirmed . |
| 18 | Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen before we commence the business of the Annual General Meeting I 'd like to remind members of the very great honour that was bestowed upon the Association at the end of last year when we were granted the right to wear the red ensign defi defaced with the crown . |
| 19 | Detectives were granted the extension to the time allowed to question her German-born husband . |
| 20 | Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution . |
| 21 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 22 | The French were granted an occupation zone mainly thanks to Britain . |
| 23 | Maxwell-Smith was among 25,000 prisoners who were granted an amnesty on the birthday of Queen Sirikit of Thailand . |
| 24 | The journalists were granted an interview with His Grace , the Bishop of Danu . |
| 25 | At the end of the conference the participants were granted an audience with the Pope . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , as his in-tray piles up with requests , the pupils of St Edmunds know what they 'd ask for if they were granted an audience . |
| 27 | B and L were granted an injunction restraining the receivers from any further sales until the question of the disputed remuneration was settled . |
| 28 | London Underground , however , were granted an injunction to prevent a ballot being held on the ground that the issues did not constitute trade disputes . |
| 29 | Unofficial strike action followed and the union 's own bankers were granted an injunction prohibiting the NUS from transferring any of their property abroad , on the principle that third parties must ensure that they gave no aid to any action which might occur if the union 's property were sequestrated as a result of some future contempt of court . |
| 30 | Therefore the poem leads us towards transcendental moments of revelation , scattered throughout , but climaxing at the Simplon Pass ( end of Book vi ) and the vision on Mount Snowdon in the last book of the poem ; in the same way Aeneas was granted a vision of the destiny of Rome in Book VI of the Aeneid , and Adam in Paradise Lost receives revelations on top of a high mountain . |