Example sentences of "had be grant " in BNC.

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1 As an estimated 5.5 million Jaguar shares changed hands , Ford confirmed that it had been granted early approval by US regulatory authorities to begin building its stake , immediately prompting speculation that it had entered the market .
2 Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home .
3 Before the talks , the union had not been recognised by the Government for national pay bargaining , leading to the belief that recognition had been granted to give managers the opportunity to impose the offer on all ambulance staff if it was accepted by Apap .
4 A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest .
5 In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March .
6 I had been devoted to him , and he to me , and he had brought me a happiness I thought never to find again , But , I argued , he had been granted nearly forty more years of life , and had our son as memorial .
7 I prayed then that this merciful fate which Leslie wished for the enemy had been granted also to him .
8 The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners .
9 Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration .
10 Her husband countered this on the grounds of the divorce he had been granted in Reno .
11 Canada had been granted her federal constitution in 1867 ( British North America Act 1867 ) , Australia hers in 1901 ( Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 ) , and South Africa hers in 1909 ( Union of South Africa Act 1909 ) .
12 A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it .
13 Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer .
14 At the back there was a long low out-building , described , somewhat euphemistically , as the Dairy or Daye House , for which planning permission to convert into living quarters had been granted to the vendors , but never actually acted upon .
15 The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction .
16 Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself .
17 being a person to whom a provisional licence to drive a motor vehicle had been granted
18 ‘ being a person to whom a provisional licence to drive a motor vehicle had been granted ’ Means that the defendant must be issued with a current provisional licence for the class of vehicle he was driving or riding .
19 ‘ being a person to whom a provisional licence to drive a motor vehicle had been granted ’ Is usually proved by the police officer in the case examining the current provisional licence .
20 Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past .
21 On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream .
22 Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass .
23 During 1987–8 in the prison I visited , twenty-three prisoners had been granted home leave , mainly for reasons of death or serious illness in their families .
24 ( Similarly , Datir ( 1978 : 245 ) found that only five of 644 released prisoners in a sample in Maharastra had been granted this . )
25 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 .
26 Moreover , once health authorities had been granted powers to ‘ buy in ’ services , then the question of the accountability to local publics of their purchasing decisions was raised .
27 In 1319 , for instance , the wealthy Genoese merchant Antonio di Pessagno , formerly seneschal of Aquitaine , claimed that he had been granted 3000 l.st .
28 Sotheby 's then heard from Michael Hebecker , Director of Schlossmuseum Gotha , informing them that , while the auction house had behaved fairly and correctly in offering the picture to the museum first , the permission to sell the Wtewael had been granted in his absence and with neither his knowledge nor consent , and asking them if the picture could be withdrawn for the time being .
29 Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own .
30 In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley .
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