Sentence examples for much licence from inspiring English sources

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They have never felt comfortable with popular culture and they have therefore given those who claim to perpetrate it too much licence... that is the bigger challenge the organisation faces".

The position at the head of Langdale had improved since the trouble of two years ago and he felt they should steer a course between too much control and too much licence when dealing with the problem of camping.

Paul Higgins as the self-firing canon, Anna Casder-Marshall as the worried verger and Shereen Martin as a silk-smooth City lawyer all offer good support and, even if I find it hard to believe the Dean's rookie PA would be given so much licence, Rebecca Humphries plays her with the right desperate sincerity.

The committee, which is chaired by Conservative MP John Whittingdale and includes Labour MP Rosemary McKenna, also attacked the BBC for failing to reveal how much licence fee payers contribute to the Freesat service, which the corporation is planning to launch as a joint venture with ITV.

But they... have never felt comfortable with popular culture, and they have therefore given those who claim to perpetrate it too much licence…".

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It is not so much a licence to operate as a licence to obfuscate.CSR advocates could reply that this misses the point.

Ofcom will hold a consultation on the renewal process and will publish its assessment of how much the licence holders should pay in the summer of 2013.

But this leaves open the question that most interests the BBC: by how much the licence fee should increase, and how, if at all, it should be supplemented.

This clause has given developers a much freer licence to force their plans through the system regardless of constraints, on the basis that local planning policies represent needless "burdens" on their pockets.

The six-part Frankenstein Chronicles takes as much poetic licence as Jekyll, in that it plays fast and loose with literary truths: Blake pops up, as does Mary Shelley, and a grizzled Sean Bean, now quite shorn of his Sharpe good looks and allowed to just get on with being a good actor.

Few historical sources exist about Salieri's life, so with this formal structure in place Shaffer could take as much dramatic licence as he liked.

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