Example sentences of "[verb] won a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | VINNIE JONES has won a seven-day stay of execution from the Football Association . |
| 5 | VINNIE JONES has won a seven-day stay of execution from the Football Association . |
| 6 | She 'd won a coveted Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The Federal Electoral Institute released in early September the final results which corrected preliminary estimates of the Aug. 18 mid-term congressional elections but which confirmed that the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) had won a huge majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress [ see p. 38385 for details of other simultaneous elections ] . |
| 9 | Preliminary results indicated that right-wing parties had won a clear majority of seats , underlining a shift in power to the right in favour of the government , and marking a heavy defeat for the left , in particular the PT . |
| 10 | While the government negotiator Fanus Schoeman insists that the ANC has agreed to share power because a government of national unity is power-sharing , the ANC leader Nelson Mandela said on Saturday that an interim government of national unity was not power-sharing and that the body would include all parties who have won a certain proportion of seats in a constituent assembly . |