Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] grant [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil palms have been planted on a large part of the land behind the river and growers have been granted a draft permit to develop plantations along the river banks , the monkeys ' habitat , by the local land authority . |
| 2 | The organisers have been granted a licence in the face of strong local objections . |
| 3 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 4 | In Wales , however , local authorities have been granted the discretion to limit any holiday home discount to 25 per cent or charge the full rate in certain circumstances . |
| 5 | Under the new Traffic Calming Act , local authorities have been granted the right to introduce wide-ranging restrictions on urban roads , including speed limits of 20 mph ( as opposed to the present standard minimum of 30 mph ) . |