Example sentences of "had [been] allowed [art] " in BNC.

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1 The son of the house had been allowed a love-match , but as their daughter had led a more sheltered life , an arranged marriage was necessary .
2 She said that apart from MacQuillan and Barron she did not know who else had been allowed a complete list .
3 There was a lengthy pause before she said he had been allowed no choice .
4 Delicately Louisa had tried again and again to create the opportunity , but she had been allowed no room .
5 Brazil was a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , but although it had signed the 1967 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America ( the Treaty of Tlatelolco — see p. 22505 ) it had not signed the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT — see p. 22787 ) , and for this reason had been allowed no international shipments of nuclear fuel since 1978 .
6 Blacks would have been better off now if , after being shipped to America in chains , they had been allowed the same freedom to prosper as willing immigrants were .
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