Example sentences of "[noun] have won a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 2 | Denton , Texas-based Scott Instruments Corp has won a development and distribution agreement with Silicon Graphics Inc for its speech recognition systems for workstations but terms were n't disclosed : speech-aware Silicon Graphics workstations , expected to be available in the second half of the year , will respond to spoken commands . |
| 3 | Digital Equipment Corp has won a $3m contract from China 's Baoshan Steel to link the mill 's computers into the largest network DEC has sold in Asia , regional president Edmund Reilly said : a 40-mile optical fibre system will link all of Baoshan 's existing and future computers into a single , integrated enterprise network , Reilly told Reuter , and will provide videoconferencing services for the plant outside Shanghai ; DEC was chosen because of its well-established Chinese sales and service network that includes licenced local partners and offices in Shanghai , Peking and Guangzhou , Reilly said . |
| 4 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 5 | A self-taught blacksmith has won a prestige commission to create new gates for Hereford Cathedral.The job will take him three months to complete . |
| 6 | San Jose , California , Motorola Inc 's Commercial Systems Division has won a $5m deal from Plano , Texas-based Paging Network Inc , the paging services specialist , to install its Unix-based Motorola 68040 systems in 40 of its offices nationwide . |
| 7 | SMALLEY has won a prize as Derbyshire 's best-kept large village . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a $125m contract with Europe 's largest telecommunications carrier , Deutsche Bundespost 's Telekom , Darmstadt , for 1,000 PA RISC Unix workstations , printers and plotters : the German giant will move some applications over from the IBM and Siemens Nixdorf mainframes it uses . |
| 9 | BRITISH Aerospace has won a £300 million contract to build 13 RAF Harriers , it was announced yesterday . |
| 10 | Graham Pidgeon who 's horse has won a race says you only have w inner once in a while and its worth waiting for |
| 11 | But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future . |
| 12 | Russia 's space industry has won a contract to launch its first western satellite . |
| 13 | A Monastery has won a tourist award for providing some of the best accomodation for holiday makers . |
| 14 | One of the world 's richest colonies of blue coral , situated off Japan 's southern island of Ishigaki has won a reprieve from development and , marine biologists believe , destruction . |
| 15 | PAINT chief Mike Hennessy has won a pay rise that every boss will envy — 619 per cent . |
| 16 | Volvo has won a safety award for its innovative integrated child seat fitted to all new 900-series saloons . |
| 17 | A revolutionary type of microlight aircraft has won a design council award . |
| 18 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 19 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 20 | Speelman had won a pawn at move 29 , so his position looked far superior . |
| 21 | Lisa Keenan , 17 , from Oxton has won a place at the University of Northumbria , while Lisa Hudson , 18 , from Claughton will study at the Preston-based University of Central Lancashire . |
| 22 | SCOTLAND has won a £1.1 million contract for Strathclyde Regional Council to build the St John The Baptist Primary School for 495 pupils in Uddingston . |
| 23 | A group of parents has won a battle to get a new primary school at Corse in Gloucestershire . |
| 24 | Unisys Corp 's French subsidiary has won a $9.3m order from the Agricultural Bank of Algeria to automate its 250 branches and 36 agencies in competition with Groupe Bull SA and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme . |
| 25 | ARTIST David Mach has won a £12,000 prize for his sculpture of a rock star made from coathangers . |
| 26 | The former detective hero has won a role as a mobster in a new American cop series The Commish . |
| 27 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 28 | Now the Conservatives have won a record fourth term , while M Mitterrand 's Socialists have suffered their worst poll defeat since the war , as have Signor Andreotti 's Christian Democrats . |
| 29 | Only Anne Gibson has won a singles medal for Scotland in the championships — a bronze in 1987 — and McEwan , just 17 , has an outside chance of repeating that . |
| 30 | ICL Plc has won a $3m contract , from the Hungarian National Bank . |