Example sentences of "he was awarded the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 2 | He was awarded the DSO and the military CBE by the British , the Croix de Guerre by the French and made a Commander of the Legion of Merit by the Americans . |
| 3 | He was awarded the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law in 1965 and his experience of the practice of international law with the United Nations Relief Works Agency ( Unrwa ) in Beirut , with the Hague Unification Conference and with the European Commission marked him out as exceptional . |
| 4 | Later he studied with Herbert Sumsion , and was made an Associate of the Royal College of Organists in 1957 when he was awarded the Limpus and Read prizes . |
| 5 | He was awarded the Griffin Trophy in a ceremony at Torquay , Devon , to mark his achievement which provided a bus for a Sussex school for the physically disabled and around £8,000 for the NFA 's Ron Shirley Memorial Fund . |
| 6 | On the first anniversary of that invasion , when thousands of Czechoslovak demonstrators were dispersed on Mr Husak 's orders by the police with military support , he was awarded the Order of Lenin , the highest honour the Russians could give him , and his acceptance of it sealed his fate once and for all Within two years of becoming party leader he purged all but 26 of the central committee members who had been in office before the invasion . |
| 7 | In 1985 he was awarded the CBE . |
| 8 | If he demanded that an artist was dropped , the artist was dropped , nationwide — until a Texan broadcaster , John Henry Faulk , who was blacklisted by AWARE , brought and won a libel action in which he was awarded the record sum of $3,500,000 after a six-year struggle . |
| 9 | He was awarded the Order of the Silver Wolf for his services to scouting . |
| 10 | In 1988 , when he was awarded the Seoul Peace Prize he announced the cash award of £180,000 would help establish an Olympic Museum in Lausanne near the committee 's headquarters . |
| 11 | He was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1919 . |
| 12 | In the defence of Tobruk his battery shot down more than 50 Stuka dive-bombers , for which he was awarded the DSO . |
| 13 | He was awarded the OBE for services to sport . |
| 14 | Significantly he was awarded the gold medal of the Institute of Transport in 1949 for a paper entitled : ‘ Budgeting and Statistical Control of Road Passenger Transport ’ . |
| 15 | In 1978 he was awarded the MBE for his services to astronomy . |
| 16 | he was awarded the Military Cross for his action in the German Ardennes offensive of 1944 , during which ( I believe ) he formed a unit of the Pioneer Corps into a fighting force . |
| 17 | He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief . |
| 18 | He was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the University in July 1990 . |
| 19 | He was awarded the MBE in the 1991 New Year 's Honour list and was Vice-Chairman of the British Athletics Federation and Chairman of the Northern Irish Federation . |
| 20 | He was awarded the Military Cross . |
| 21 | Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John Finn set up a .50 calibre gun and fired on the attackers , he was wounded several times but continued to fight back , later he was awarded the Medal of Honour . |
| 22 | For outstanding leadership , determination and gallantry on this mission he was awarded the Victoria Cross . |
| 23 | In 1952 he was awarded the OBE. |
| 24 | Comprising some seventy paintings and forty works on paper , it has been selected by Christopher Green , Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and author of Cubism and Its Enemies , for which he was awarded the prestigious Mitchell Prize for Twentieth-Century Art in 1987 . |
| 25 | In 1967 an international piano competition bearing his name was established and four years later he was awarded the Erasmus Prize . |
| 26 | For this achievement he was awarded the Order of Lenin . |
| 27 | In 1962 he was awarded the OBE , and in 1971 Gallaudet College , Washington , which had previously conferred on him an Honourary Doctorate , gave him an Edward Miner Gallaudet Award , citing that : His persistent courageous , often lonely insistence in his land upon adapting educational practice with deaf children to individual characteristics preserved hope for the masses of deaf children throughout the world who were faced with the bleakness of no alternatives … |
| 28 | As a happy augury to Allan Hayhurst 's fresh start he was awarded the MBE in the Birthday Honours of 1966 . |
| 29 | He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965 with another American , Julian Schwinger , and the Japanese physicist Shinichiro Tomonaga . |
| 30 | He was awarded the MC and appointed OBE. |