"granting a chance" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to giving someone a chance to do something, for example: "By granting a chance to the struggling students, the teacher gave them the opportunity to succeed in the class."
Last season, Louisiana State University was granted a chance to play for the championship despite losing twice during the season, and won.
While he doesn't dispute Krakauer's account, he feels lucky, not guilty, for being granted a chance to re-evaluate his life.
In previous seasons, as many as 250 contestants attempted the qualifying round; this year, thousands of audition tapes arrived; 750 men and women were granted a chance to compete.
Granted a chance to descend to earth for a single day, Billy watches in astonishment as his teenage daughter sweeps recklessly through her dance, her juvenile high spirits a mirror of his own heedlessness.
There remains the possibility that he could return to the club on a 12-month loan, even though Zaha hopes to be granted a chance to prove himself at Old Trafford.
Omar's family moved to Virginia from Kenya when she was twelve years old, after her family, refugees from the civil war in Somalia, had been granted a chance to apply for citizenship in the United States.
The final at Wembley included a critical save to deny Watford's Troy Deeney a tap-in, even if Manuel Almunia was the busier of the two goalkeepers on show, before Speroni was finally granted a chance to excel more regularly in the top flight.
In the next few days, a man named Dan Senor is likely to announce that he will be a candidate in the Republican primary for the United States Senate, and New York will be granted a chance to revisit the making of surreal history.
In the pre-Klinsmann dark ages, a 4-4-2 with two deep central midfielders perennially put the Yanks on the back foot, making them a counter-attacking team forced to absorb a great deal of pressure in hopes of being granted a chance or two to break away.
