Example sentences of "[verb] [been] awarded a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Midlands , West & Wales has been awarded a £1.4 million contract by the Ministry of Education to build a two-storey extension to the Pates Grammar School in Cheltenham .
2 FIREATER , based in Great Yarmouth , has been awarded a contract to supply fire hoses to all British Coal depots in Britain during 1993 .
3 WOOD GROUP Fire Protection has been awarded a contract to design , engineer and supply two low pressure C02 fire protection systems to protect gas turbine sets provided by John Brown Engineering for the new Keadby power station at Scunthorpe .
4 The Council of Science and Technology Institutes has been awarded a contract by the Employment Department to commission a major six-month study into the employment pattern of scientists .
5 Alcatel NV 's Alcatel Submarcom has been awarded a $25.8m contract to supply and install the fibre optic cable between Greece , Cyprus and Crete : the cable is scheduled to come into service in August 1994 .
6 Kay Helen Downing , 22 , of Claxton Avenue , Darlington , has been awarded a BA degree in textiles by Birmingham Polytechnic .
7 AT&T Co has been awarded a $5m contract by the island of Nauru to digitise the country 's telecommunications network and set up direct international service : the order includes a 5ESS gateway switching system , equipment to digitise Nauru 's existing analogue earthstations , microwave towers and other terrestrial communications links , a cellular communications network and one year of on-site technical support ; the eight-square-mile island is 2,445 miles southwest of Hawaii and has 9,000 residents ; it makes a living exporting $75m a year in phosphates .
8 David ‘ Syd ’ Lawrence , who recently returned to bowling in the nets after his horrific knee injury in New Zealand , has been awarded a benefit by Gloucestershire in 1993 .
9 Peter Hughes , who received the TNT-sponsored Transport Journalist of the Year Award from the Institute in 1992 , has been awarded a Doctorate from the Open University for his thesis ‘ A strategy for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from personal travel in Britain . ’
10 Wimpey Alawi has been awarded a £2.4 million project by
11 Charity fundraiser Robbie Robertson has been awarded a trophy to mark his record-breaking marathon wheelchair journey from John O'Groats to Land 's End .
12 A deserted Victorian mansion tucked away in the Cotswolds has been awarded a repair grant by the Getty Foundation .
13 I am a senior enrolled nurse who wants to hear from any enrolled or senior enrolled nurse who has been awarded a staff nurse grade F , or above , in 1988 , or subsequently through the grading appeals system .
14 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Unix-based secure operating system , SecTOS , has been awarded a security classification from the newly formed European Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria , ITSEC .
15 She is a member of Canzonetta — a newly formed chamber choir directed by David Victor-Smith and has been awarded a place at the Royal Northern College of Music in September .
16 THE Capenhurst decommissioning team has been awarded a plaque in recognition of a paper presented at the Oak Ridge Conference in the United States .
17 Dr. John Quicke , psychologist and Lecturer in the Division , has been awarded a research grant of £10,000 from the Mental Health Foundation , ( with likely funding of a further £10,000 ) to explore ways in which schools can teach about mental handicap .
18 The Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) has been awarded a research contract to four researchers at the University of Stirling .
19 Her husband has been awarded a Research Fellowship at Queen 's College , Birmingham , so for the next two years they will be dividing their time between Birmingham and Derbyshire .
20 Speciality Chemicals Services ( SPECS ) has been awarded a runner-up prize in the Netherlands — British Chamber of Commerce Award for Enterprise ( Dutch small business category ) .
21 THE captain of the USS Vincennes , which shot down the Iranian airbus , has been awarded a medal for ‘ exceptionally meritorious conduct ’ .
22 Copsey should have been awarded a Lonsdale belt for his first-half haymaker on Francis .
23 Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals .
24 It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire .
25 All went well , and he was duly admitted to St Paul 's College in Cheltenham from the Islington Trinity National School , having been awarded a Queen 's Scholarship , second class .
26 Losing 14–12 Province had been awarded a free-kick inside Northern 's '22 .
27 Having opened with an 83 , Moodie yesterday returned a 78 in which she was cheered by the news from home that she had been awarded a golf scholarship at the University of Hawaii .
28 Among his opponents was Pinza , ridden by Gordon Richards , the most successful and ( more to the point ) most loved jockey in British Turf history , yet still trying to win the Derby after twenty-seven unavailing attempts : to add further spice to the occasion , the announcement had just been made that Richards had been awarded a knighthood , the first jockey to be so honoured .
29 The Office of Works were determined to re-exhibit only those parts of a competitor 's work which had been awarded a premium , and consequently cut up some drawings to make this possible .
30 Later , when tempers had cooled , her father , Mirza Farkunda Zamal , had been awarded a pension by the penitent British authorities ; he was even given a seat of honour at the first Delhi Durbar in 1877 .
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