Example sentences of "be award [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For Scotland , with more than half their current first-choice XV seconded for duty with the Lions , are to award full caps for this summer 's three Tests against Fiji , Western Samoa and Tonga .
2 The aim of the fund will be to award discretionary grants to young people who lack the resources to develop their interest in the outdoors .
3 ‘ We will continue to press the council of ministers , who make the final decisions , that the final decision must be to award full status to the whole area .
4 Charter marks will be awarded each year to those organisations that have delivered service to the public to the highest standard at present available .
5 The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans .
6 On assumptions similar to those made in the preceding paragraph Labour would win 21 of the 30 constituency seats , would have a claim to 25 seats altogether , and would therefore be awarded four list seats .
7 Mr Vernon added that the fund raisers highest recompense would perhaps come when they heard the citations read for the gallantry medals to be awarded that afternoon , there being no better proof of the importance to the Institution for which everyone worked so willingly .
8 Whether or not Woolwich can claim to be awarded that interest depends on whether it had a cause of action to recover each payment as a debt due it on the date when it was made .
9 THOUGH not one to blow his own trumpet , 24-year-old Lee Rigg was delighted to be awarded one of the top brass band honours in Britain in December .
10 Members of Tendring District Council 's housing services committee voted by 12 to one to reject a motion recommending married couples should be awarded 100 extra points in order to move them up the queue for council housing .
11 ( 4 ) From 15 weeks after your accident , you will also be entitled to claim and may be awarded Industrial Disablement Benefit if you are still suffering from a continuing disability .
12 In 1626 Charles I signed an agreement with Vermuyden for the drainage of Hatfield Chase , for which the latter would be awarded one-third of the land drained .
13 Kolbe , like Belling , continued to be awarded public commissions after 1945 the former with the unobjectionable mild classicism of his female nudes , the latter by reverting to his abstract beginnings .
14 Known bidders for the contract , which will be awarded next January , include British Aerospace , which proposes using Swiss-built FFA Bravos/Wrens ( as used by the BAe Flying College at Prestwick ) , and Oxford Air Training School .
15 The second largest American X terminals contract , involving some 40,000 units , is due to be awarded next month when they let AFKAC 3000 .
16 The SLEJF is also the first NGO from Sri Lanka to be awarded this UN accolade .
17 The evening marks the launch of a new bursary to the University of Liverpool by Whitbread , to be awarded this year to the student whose ideas for the most effective use of a possible £1bn for Merseyside are judged to be the best .
18 Mike Queen , Public Sector Director , commented , ‘ We were naturally delighted to be awarded this contract .
19 Entitled to 60 seats in all , and having secured 53 in the constituencies , they would be awarded seven of the list seats , the remaining 47 being available for proportionate distribution among the other parties .
20 A points scheme would enable a maxium of 50,000 heads of households , plus their dependants , to be awarded full British citizenship without having to leave Hong Kong .
21 ‘ As leader of the Liberal Party , ’ Steel noted in the extract enclosed , ‘ I do not think I will ever be awarded full marks for either party management or pioneering policies … ‘
22 Given the importance of such personal qualities , the government have called for improvements in the selection of students for initial teacher training and have urged that only students with the ‘ requisite personal qualities ’ should be awarded qualified-teacher status at the end of their studies .
23 Stuart Caughey of Rolls Wood Group [ Repair and Overhauls ] repair division has recently been awarded Junior Chamber Aberdeen 's Sillerton Quaich for being its best new member .
24 As the attached ‘ Ultimate ’ Entry Bond confirms , you as the named participant have been awarded Six Exclusive Prize Draw Codes .
25 As the attached Ultimate Entry Bond confirms , you as the names participant have been awarded Six Exclusive Prize Draw Codes .
26 Later that season he joined the select band of Palace players who have been awarded two Testimonials or Benefit matches by Crystal Palace FC .
27 THE Old School House Restaurant , West Street , Alresford has been awarded two rosettes by the AA 's 1992 Restaurant Guide .
28 The Department of Peace Studies has recently been awarded two grants , from the Westcroft Trust and the Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury Trust , totalling £65,000 over the next three years .
29 But he was also a war hero who had commanded small ships in battles in the Channel , for which he had been awarded two DSC 's , and the son of Scott of the Antarctic who then , even more than now , was a national hero of mythic proportions in the eyes of most of us .
30 The project director , Marilyn Standley , commented : ‘ The building is being designed to reflect the personality and concerns of the company and its staff , and we are delighted at having been awarded such a high environmental score . ’
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