Example sentences of "was awarded [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly afterwards Mrs Eliza Clark of Manor Terrace was awarded £30 and 15/ per week after her husband was killed in the works . |
| 2 | Last month , after a nine-week trial , the peer was awarded £1.5 million by a jury in that action . |
| 3 | Peter Martyn , 56 , of Ravenshead , Notts , was awarded £50,000 damages and £171,000 costs for repeated slander by transport police investigating his railway machinery firm Permaquip . |
| 4 | MISS LORI MCELROY ( 28 ) , A DESIGN ENGINEER FROM EAST KILBRIDE WAS AWARDED £1,300 IN DAMAGES IN THE FAMOUS BAG OF CHIPS CASE |
| 5 | The UFC made up to £1m available under an initiative to encourage greater flexibility in teaching and learning and the University was awarded £100,000 to enhance the Evening Degree Programme . |
| 6 | The Corporation was awarded £7,674 , of which £5,000 had already been paid . |
| 7 | The wife was awarded £10,000 as a lump sum , £103,608 for loss of past maintenance , £203,000 for loss of future maintenance , £6,100 for inadequate property settlement , £2,500 for loss on mortgage payments and £5,000 for mental distress : a total award of £330,238 . |
| 8 | Sunderland-based Artists ' Agency was awarded £2,000 while a project in Cleveland by artist Panayiotis Kalorkoti won £2,500 . |
| 9 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 10 | The plaintiff was awarded £50 in damages . |
| 11 | In the first Wilson was found guilty of slander against the Co-operative Wholesale Society which was awarded £pound150 damages and costs . |
| 12 | The family of a woman crushed by a lorry on a pedestrian crossing was awarded £108,749 damages at the High Court in London yesterday . |
| 13 | She was awarded £1,000 damages . |
| 14 | A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday . |
| 15 | Sean Young was awarded £120,000 as settlement of her costs and no further action was taken . |
| 16 | After repeated medical examinations and seven years of litigation he was awarded £12,000 in compensation , and " aided by continuous benefits , he stayed off work , exhausted through lack of sleep " . |
| 17 | THE latest winner in CCG 's New Sales Leads campaign is Simon Tebbit , CCG area manager , who was awarded £250 for his initiative in suggesting a presentation to the Penguin Group in Kensington . |
| 18 | THE family of bank executive Stephen Loader , 34 , who died in the 1988 Clapham rail disaster , was awarded £485,000 damages yesterday . |
| 19 | She was awarded £60 travelling expenses by the court . |
| 20 | But when film star Telly Savalas sued over a gossip columnist 's unjustifiable remarks about hang-overs interfering with his work , he was awarded £34,000 . |
| 21 | Former Royal Shakespeare Company actress Charlotte Cornwell had more luck when she was awarded £11,000 to compensate for a vile personal attack on her in the " News of the World " over her performance in a new television series . |
| 22 | A former nurse , hurt on duty and unlikely to work again , was awarded £157,500 by Newcastle Crown Court yesterday for a serious back injury . |
| 23 | SONIA SUTCLIFFE , who was awarded £600,000 in libel damages against Private Eye , gave a ‘ misleading ’ answer in court when she was questioned about a £25,000 loan given to her by a friend , it was alleged in the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 24 | On the second day of the magazine 's appeal for a retrial of the libel action in which Mrs Sutclife was awarded £600,000 , Geoffrey Shaw , her counsel , said : ‘ This woman has undergone more stress since 1981 than any of us are every likely to undergo . |
| 25 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 26 | Most lawyers expected that the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " would receive no more than £20,000 for a relatively mild libel in " Private Eye " : instead , she was awarded £600,000 . |
| 27 | A maid who was whipped and beaten by two Arab princesses for whom she worked was awarded £300,000 damages in the High Court . |
| 28 | Koo Stark was awarded £300,000 by a jury the following year , and Elton John set a short-lived record with his £1 million settlement against " The Sun " . |
| 29 | Mrs Taylor 's complaint of unfair dismissal was upheld and she was awarded £324 compensation . |
| 30 | She was awarded £670 a year . |