Example sentences of "[verb] won a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | John Prescot has won a key post in the new shadow cabinet , moving from transport to employment . |
2 | Tadpole Technology Plc , Cambridge , UK reports that its Austin , Texas-based US operation has won a singular accolade from Sun Microsystems Inc : Sun 's Lincoln , Massachusetts-based SunExpress unit is to carry the Sparcbook Unix-based notebook computer , offering it to end users and resellers via its SunExpress telemarketing sales operation . |
3 | A mother has won a temporary victory in her battle for custody of her two young children . |
4 | In all but one of the elections since 1945 , one party has won a absolute majority of the seats and the leader of that party has formed a government . |
5 | It has shown what organized action can achieve and , in comparison to the situation of the common prisoners , has won a surprising degree of autonomy . |
6 | A lesbian couple has won a three-year battle with Hampshire County Council to foster a child after being denied permission on the grounds of their sexuality . |
7 | OUT OF the ruins of super-SARA , the EEC 's science commissioner Etienne Davignon has won a major reform to decision-making for the EEC 's Joint Research Centre . |
8 | Gloucestershire County Council has won a partial victory in its appeal against poll tax capping . |
9 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit . |
10 | Oracle UK Ltd has won a 16-year contract with the British Army valued at £4m which will standardise all of the Army 's IT projects around the Oracle database . |
11 | One of the region 's independent radio stations has won a top award at the radio Oscars . |
12 | A SPORTS car which does n't go on sale in Britain until next year has won a top award at the British International Motor Show . |
13 | A RETIRED businessman who kept his sense of humour despite discovering he had cancer has won a top prize for his comic poetry . |
14 | DAMON HILL has won a massive vote of confidence from Canon Williams ' team boss Frank Williams after his latest ration of rank bad luck in the Canadian Grand Prix . |
15 | A REAL ale pub has won a unique award from a hardy band of travelling Plymouth Argyle supporters . |
16 | Willie has big chances in the other televised races — on in-from After The Last and Jahafil who has won a big race in Ireland since losing to Spinning at Goodwood . |
17 | VINNIE JONES has won a seven-day stay of execution from the Football Association . |
18 | VINNIE JONES has won a seven-day stay of execution from the Football Association . |
19 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
20 | A woman with Downs Syndrome has won a national award for ’ insprirational achievement ’ . |
21 | Work on Bank Top station has won a national award for its appearance and the whole programme has been praised by Environment Minister Tony Baldry . |
22 | She 'd won a coveted Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award . |
23 | Begin won a slim victory in the Knesset for his foreign and defence policy , though having to concede an inquiry into the Beirut massacres . |
24 | ‘ Things have n't been going well since my England call-up , ’ said Ferdinand , who thought he should have won a late penalty after colliding with Chris Woods . |
25 | Brough Park 's leading performer of late , Burnhope Jimmy , will be strongly fancied to win the Long March Stayers Stakes , over 670 metres , having won a similar event at Middlesbrough earlier in the month . |
26 | When the 1976 election returns were in , Jimmy Carter was found to have won a narrow victory over Gerald Ford . |
27 | On June 11 the Central Electoral Board announced that the incumbent President , Joaquín Balaguer , had won a narrow victory in the May 16 presidential election [ see p. 37448 ] . |
28 | National assertiveness reached the largest and most important of the Soviet Union 's republics , the Russian , in May 1990 , following the elections to the republican Congress of People 's Deputies in which radical candidates had won a substantial proportion of the vote ( see above , p. 59 ) . |
29 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
30 | Ileana felt that women had won a new respect after this military operation , not only from their own organization but throughout the FMLN . |