"They were much more willing to grant that something could just be very well done and create a buzz and that's O.K.," she said.
Only then are we granted something to look at: a photograph of the aged Tolstoy, and a nameless voice that asks, as if unnerved, "Why is he staring at me like that?" What matters at this point, as Sokurov admirers can confirm, is to hold your nerve, and to trust that all these strands will be threaded into the weave of a larger design.
And as it turns out, you have been granted something closer to a god's-eye view.
Some Tory lawmakers grumble about his lack of accessibility and his tendency to take their support for granted, something he did with disastrous consequences in the parliamentary vote on Syria that he lost.
Use "allot" when you are referring to giving out, apportioning, dividing or granting something.
"Pleated metallic skirt" (granted, something very specific compared to a motorcycle jacket) gets me 6 results in my size in less than 2 minutes.
I have to study the patterns of social interaction that others take for granted, something that has helped me understand point of view and writing across cultures (as everything is a foreign culture to me).
There was, granted, something slightly creepy about this, but on the whole the feeling engendered was bafflement as to why anyone would want to go round doing such a thing.
She can take most readers' disapproval for granted, something that was not always true when the Cold War was on.
But they have been granted something that lesser prisoners don't get: an actual legal proceeding against them, albeit in a military tribunal.
