Sentence examples for had been granting from inspiring English sources
It had been granting waivers to more than 15 percent of the members participating in meetings but is currently granting waivers to less than 5 percent.
In this case, policy uncertainty was reduced because the 1986 trade agreement meant the E.C. could not revoke import tax exemptions it had been granting to Portuguese companies on a provisional basis.
Unable to get temporary protection visas through parliament, the federal government had been granting other temporary visas which blocked asylum seekers from applying for permanent visas, but Thursday's case ruled against that practice.
The European Patent Office EPOO) had been granting patents relating to embryonic stem cells for cases filed after the cell lines were made available to the public in 2003.
Later, the judge asked Mr. Northrup if it was not true that the state had been granting driver's licenses to other deferred-action recipients, including illegal immigrants who are witnesses in cases against drug or human smugglers but who, like the young immigrants benefiting from the Obama administration's program, were not on a path to citizenship.
A temporary treaty with Great Britain was signed at Rawalpindi on August 8 , 1919 whereby Amanullah lost the annual subsidy that Britain had been granting the country but obtained — or so he thought — freedom from British control over his relations with other foreign powers.
