Example sentences of "had [been] granted a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 2 | Orchard had been granted a rent for his ‘ good and praiseworthy service and counsel ’ in 1475 , and he was engaged as a contractor for several parts of the college buildings , including the great west window of the chapel to his own ‘ portraiture ’ ( design ) . |
| 3 | Some time , then , during the intervening years , he had been granted a barony . |
| 4 | Since the inception of the Doi Moi campaign in 1986 , the press had been granted a limited " freedom to comment " , which it had used to highlight corruption and the failures of government . |
| 5 | He had never been stripped of his Bulgarian citizenship , and it was officially reported on June 12 that he had been granted a Bulgarian passport . |
| 6 | Controversy surrounded the release in January 1991 of four Belgian hostages in Lebanon [ see p. 37977 ] , when it emerged that Walid Khaled , the spokesperson in Lebanon of the extremist Revolutionary Council of Fatah ( RCF ) who had helped negotiate their release , had been granted a three-month tourist visa on Jan. 11 , one day before the hostages ' release and at a time of great international tension because of the Gulf crisis . |
| 7 | This came shortly after wife Gabrielle had been granted a decree nisi in a divorce court , while Crawford was rehearsing at the London Palladium for a Royal Variety Performance , which included excerpts from Billy . |
| 8 | I had been granted a State Studentship enabling me to undertake postgraduate study for an M.A. ( The London University M.A. was then a research degree . ) |