Example sentences of "have won the first " in BNC.
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1 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
2 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
3 | A BOY who has won the first national Kids Who Care award is to use his prize money to buy a guide dog for his brother . |
4 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
5 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
6 | Ms Sandra Milton , aged 31 , has won the first Scheduled Services Award for selling more trips from the airport than any other travel agent during the last 12 month . |
7 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
8 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
9 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
10 | He later moved to Leicester , having won the first of 25 England caps against Wales in 1974 . |
11 | Former Olympic XC skiier , Croasdale is the man in form having won the first two rounds of the British championship breaking course records in the process , and clocking a useful 63–47 for the half marathon in York . |
12 | Having won the first trick with Ace of Hearts , the best approach seems to be to play on Spades . |
13 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
14 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
15 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
16 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
17 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
18 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
19 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
20 | The Rona sheep had won the first round . |
21 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
22 | The first thirteen babies to claim them have won the first of their competitions . |
23 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |