Example sentences of "granted [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the Church had decided that Mabel was illegitimate , the king 's court granted Richard the inheritance . |
| 2 | In return for this support the king granted Stamford the permission to use the royal coat of arms on the borough shield . |
| 3 | It was then able to negotiate a disengagement in Sinai which removed the Soviet Union from the field , granted Egypt the use of the Canal again , and guaranteed Israel its strategic and tactical support . |
| 4 | In 1889 , Queen Victoria granted Birmingham the status of a city in recognition of its commercial importance , and the municipal enterprise which swept away terrible slums , creating great thoroughfares , and made Birmingham ‘ the best governed city in the world ’ under Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 5 | It also , the same year , granted Turkey the right of hot pursuit of dissident Turkish Kurds across the frontier . |