Example sentences of "was award the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott was awarded the highest prize , with third on the Foreign Office list , Deane and Woodward were fourth , and Street was awarded one of the fifth prizes on the same list . |
| 2 | By July 1909 he was making successful flights of several miles , and in August was awarded the Aeronautical Society 's silver medal . |
| 3 | STOCKHOLM ( UPI , Reuter ) — A Norwegian professor , Trygve Haavelmo , 78 , described as a humble man who spends much of his time in seclusion at his mountain cottage , was awarded the 1989 Nobel Economics Prize for pioneering use of mathematical statistics to interpret economic data . |
| 4 | Last year Warnke was awarded the prestigious Leibnitz Prize of DM3 million , given to scholars who ‘ have already , despite being at a relatively early stage in their careers , shown outstanding achievement , and with the help of the prize will be enabled to increase substantially their scholarly output ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Abubakar Alhaji , the Finance and Economic Planning Minister , was awarded the prestigious traditional post of Sardauna of Sokoto on Nov. 15 . |
| 7 | And it was music to the drum major Gordon Parkes ' ears when the band was awarded the prestigious 30-year-old silver Drumming Trophy and Premium Championship shield . |
| 8 | In late 1916 Nina Boyle went to Macedonia and Serbia to do war-relief work , for which she was awarded the Samaritan medal and the Allied medal . |
| 9 | Baxter 's work and his royal connections made him famous during the years directly following the Great Exhibition and he gained public recognition for his achievements : he was awarded the great gold medal of Austria ( 1852 ) , and medals for his exhibits at the Great Exhibitions in New York ( 1853 ) and Paris ( 1855 ) , was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts ( 1855 ) , and received the grand gold medal of Sweden ( 1857 ) . |
| 10 | He was awarded the Geological Society 's R. H. Worth prize for his contributions in the field of vertebrate paleontology and he was featured on television with Sir David Attenborough . |
| 11 | The difference between the two sums was substantial and the plaintiff was awarded the higher sum because the defendants would not have been able to make the brassieres at all without using the confidential information . |
| 12 | Captain Kenny Keith succeeded in making a break-out with his platoon and for his bravery was awarded the Military Cross . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was awarded the Military Cross . |
| 15 | The sergeant-major fought on the Somme , where he was awarded the Military Medal , so he knows exactly what you can expect when we eventually end up in France and have to face the enemy . |
| 16 | Her second child was born during her time at Somerville while she was studying for an M. Phil in Social Anthropology , and she describes ‘ the time when Mrs Indira Gandhi was awarded the Hon. |
| 17 | ON taking his case to an Industrial Tribunal , Mr Holdsworth was awarded the maximum compensation of £14,000 and had the satisfaction of hearing the Council 's case called ‘ laughable ’ . |
| 18 | Madonna beat Woody Allen and Sinead O'Connor when she was awarded the Sour Apple for being the most disliked celebrity . |
| 19 | He was awarded the French croix de guerre with palm . |
| 20 | Thiel ( born 1966 ) attracted much attention in 1990–91 with his black and white views of East Berlin , and was awarded the German Kodak Award . |
| 21 | The other three new British members are The Capital , in Basil Street , whose owner Mr David Levin was awarded the yellow shield for exceptional comfort . |
| 22 | The Aberdeen Oil Company , which was awarded the main £60m terminal contract , and McLean , are committed to taking on as many local workers as possible for the 600–700 construction vacancies . |
| 23 | The Aberdeen Oil Company , which was awarded the main £60m terminal contract , and McLean , is committed to taking on as many local workers as possible for the construction work . |
| 24 | During World War I she became a home nurse and was awarded the Red Cross gold medal . |
| 25 | Allies and Morrison won the second prize of £1,500 and Peter Clash was awarded the third prize of £1,000 . |
| 26 | James J. Weeble was awarded the Royal Humane Society 's Bronze Medal on 15th August 1898 for this gallant rescue . |
| 27 | Biggs was awarded the Royal Humane Society 's Bronze Medal the day before he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment on the charges of stealing bicycles , the judge saying that sentence would have been more severe but for his brave deed . |
| 28 | His voyage was outstanding for his persistence and seamanship and in 1833 he was awarded the royal premium of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 29 | In recognition of his work on thin films and terrestrial magnetism he was awarded the Royal medal of the Royal Society in 1891 and became president of the permanent committee on terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity of the International Meteorological Conference in 1896 . |
| 30 | He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for this exploit . |