Example sentences of "[noun sg] has won [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | A sheltered workshop for the disabled which is threatened with closure has won a temporary reprieve . |
4 | A NURSERY sales director with a lifetime of work in the horticultural industry has won a top award . |
5 | A REAL ale pub has won a unique award from a hardy band of travelling Plymouth Argyle supporters . |
6 | The first advertisement in the Not all chemists wear white coats campaign run by the RSC 's Careers Through Chemistry Committee has won a national award . |
7 | Gloucestershire County Council has won a partial victory in its appeal against poll tax capping . |
8 | Langbaurgh Borough Council has won a Royal Town Planning Institute Northern Branch Quality in the Residential Environment award for revitalising the Spencerbeck Estate , near Eston . |
9 | A 15-YEAR-OLD south Belfast girl has won the Irish Harp section of this year 's All-Ireland Fleadh . |
10 | A HIGH-FLYING executive hounded out of her job after complaining of sexual harassment by her boss has won the maximum award of Pounds 10,000 . |
11 | The London Media Group has won the claimed £3m HMV UK media planning and buying account following a review last month out of Pattison Horswell Durden . |
12 | Yet the move has won the implacable opposition of many economists , of the Borrowing Advisory Committee ( which represents investors and meets Treasury officials each quarter ) and of most of the career civil servants at Treasury itself . |
13 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
14 | A TORY MP 's wife has won a three-year battle to inherit the Pounds 10 million mansion that inspired Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead Revisited . |
15 | Furniture and interior design company Decorcast has won the top showroom award for April from Solid Fuel and Fireplaces Magazine for its premises on Marton Road , Middlesbrough . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | A woman with Downs Syndrome has won a national award for ’ insprirational achievement ’ . |
18 | On the job : Long serving worker Lavinia Vale has won an unfair dismissal case against Warrington firm Stubs Welding Limited after 28 years service . |
19 | The French giant has won the large manufacturer category , its Twingo and Zoom cars have picked the two design awards , and it was the runaway victor in the motorsport class . |
20 | The hard working team from British Gas South Western 's Plymouth & Cornwall District has won a special industry award . |
21 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
22 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | THE EDITOR of the EADT 's sister paper the Evening Star has won a top newspaper industry award . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | A Primary school has won a national competition to produce their own newspaper . |
27 | A RETIRED businessman who kept his sense of humour despite discovering he had cancer has won a top prize for his comic poetry . |
28 | Rose Tremain 's Sacred Country has won the novel category of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Charles Nicholl 's The Reckoning : The Murder of Christopher Marlowe has won the biography award . |
29 | A postal worker has won a two-and-a-half-year battle to bring his Filipino bride to England . |
30 | For only the second time in the 103-year history of the Army Cup , a unit has won the coveted trophy for three years in succession . |