Example sentences of "[was/were] granted the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1534 they were granted the right to coin money . |
| 2 | Detectives were granted the extension to the time allowed to question her German-born husband . |
| 3 | These councils were granted the same economic development powers as the ‘ other districts ’ , but they were additionally invited to submit an annual programme that would normally lead to greater Urban Programme funding than would be made available to the lowest tier of authorities . |
| 4 | Three stone lighter and a virtual insomniac , she has campaigned tirelessly for their release and her efforts were rewarded last week when Michelle and Lisa were granted the right to appeal against their conviction for the murder of Alison O'Shaughnessy . |
| 5 | The earliest record of iron extraction is found in a charter of AD 689 in which the monks of Canterbury were granted the right to mine ore at Lympne ( O'Niell 1967 , p. 189 ) . |
| 6 | The Halflings have lived in rural areas of the Empire for as long as anyone can remember , but it was not until the year 1010 that they were granted the lands around the upper Aver as their permanent home . |
| 7 | Thus many of the early joint.stock enterprises which were granted the privilege of corporate identity were concerned with building and operating canals and railways . |
| 8 | In June the duke and the heirs of his body were granted the Clifford barony in the West Riding , consisting of Skipton and Marton in Craven and associated land . |
| 9 | Harvard dealers were granted the same perk and for that reason kept it concealed from clients , even if it would swing the sale . |
| 10 | Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution . |
| 11 | The peasants were authorized to parcel out the private estates while legal ownership of all land was vested in the State ; factory committees were given broad powers to vet the actions of management ; the minorities were granted the right of self-determination ; each regiment was authorized to negotiate armistice terms . |
| 12 | They were granted the right to build telegraph lines across the country so that London could be closer touch with India . |
| 13 | At some stage during his early career he and his mother Joan were granted the manor of Eastington on the Isle of Purbeck , Dorset , by the priory of Christ Church Twynham , to be held for their lifetimes . |
| 14 | A year later Thurland , and others , including Höchstetter , English merchants , and members of the nobility , were granted the right to open and work mines , and events now moved with swiftness . |
| 15 | In an agreement signed with Amazonian gold prospectors on Jan. 9 , 1990 , under the auspices of the National Security Council , miners were granted the right to continue prospecting in three areas totalling about 686 sq km , and at the same time the reduction of the size of the Yanomami Indian reservation to 19 separate " islands " of forest was confirmed . |
| 16 | In June the duke and the heirs of his body were granted the Clifford barony in the West Riding , consisting of Skipton and Marton in Craven and associated land . |
| 17 | Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen before we commence the business of the Annual General Meeting I 'd like to remind members of the very great honour that was bestowed upon the Association at the end of last year when we were granted the right to wear the red ensign defi defaced with the crown . |
| 18 | When the landlord refused to renew his lease , Walton moved to Bentonville , Arkansas , where in 1950 he was granted the franchise of the Ben Franklin chain . |
| 19 | The government now denied that it was granted the terms it received under the Large Combustion Plant Directive on the basis that it would be fitting FGD so it could continue to burn high-sulphur coal . |
| 20 | On 27 November , just before their departure , Mozart was granted the title of Concert Master — an honorary appointment which was to become a paid post on his return from Italy : now he had not only a title , but also a position , in Salzburg . |
| 21 | The great thirteenth-century tithe barn , built of stone quarried near the site , was originally the property of Beaulieu Abbey , which was granted the manor of Faringdon by King John . |
| 22 | In 1921 the Young Ladies ' Sewing Group was granted the use of the schoolroom for one night a week . |
| 23 | The Institute moved into its present premises at 105 Gower Street , London , in 1936 and was granted the prefix ‘ Royal ’ in its Jubilee Year in 1961 . |
| 24 | If a licence was granted the Council would have to consider issuing an enforcement notice requiring Rees Haulage to stop operations as an infringement of planning law . |
| 25 | THE Vendor was granted the fee simple of the property hereinafter described by a Conveyance dated the 9th day of July One thousand nine hundred and fifty-one made between Lloyds Bank Limited of 71 Lombard Street in the City of London and the Vendor the legal estate to the said property having vested in the said Vendor by such grant . |
| 26 | We completed the film during the early summer of 1979 and in August Mountbatten was granted the quick but not peaceful death he had asked for when his boat was blown up by an IRA bomb off the west coast of Ireland . |
| 27 | The judgement on the Earl of Rent was annulled , and his son , a minor , was granted the right to succeed to his father 's title and lands . |
| 28 | Edward Bohun , a younger brother of the Earl of Hereford , received 400 marks , worth of land and was granted the office of Constable in view of the infirmity of the earl himself ; John Neville of Hornby and Robert de Ufford , a knight of Suffolk who had served in Gascony in 1324–5 with the Earl of Rent , were given 200 marks for ‘ helping in the same enterprise ’ . |
| 29 | In return the king was granted the tax he sought , a ninth , which was to be used exclusively for the war . |
| 30 | Within the ranks of the nobility , the king 's youngest sons in particular benefited from the fall of the courtiers : Edmund Langley was appointed Constable of Dover Castle , an office previously held by Latimer , while Woodstock was granted the office of Constable of England , which was hereditary in the Bohun family but had been delegated when necessary to other lords after the death of the last Earl of Hereford , Woodstock 's father-in-law . |