Example sentences of "[noun prp] have won a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | VAUXHALL has won a top towcar award for the third year running , scooping five of the seven trophies in the process . |
2 | Our friend Drummle has won a great prize ! |
3 | THE MINORIES Gallery in Colchester has won a temporary reprieve and will re-open this spring . |
4 | SEX parlour boss Julie Williamson has won a top tourism award — for giving her customers a really good time . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | BOON STAR Michael Elphick has won a Boon-style battle — to save his own TV character . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Scotland has won a bitter battle to house a new multi-million pound military centre creating 700 jobs , it was disclosed tonight . |
10 | Scopes had broken the law and so lost his case , but many Americans believed that Darrow had won a moral victory . |
11 | The Marchioness of Blandford has won a High Court injunction against her husband , Jamie Blandford . |
12 | The Marchioness of Blandford has won a High Court injunction against her husband , Jamie Blandford . |
13 | However , the unpalatable fact was that the CPP had won a resounding triumph . |
14 | On completion of his secondary education at Q.R.C. , the young Eric Williams had won a coveted scholarship to Oxford . |
15 | John Prescot has won a key post in the new shadow cabinet , moving from transport to employment . |
16 | He told me this week : ‘ It 's the first time City of Derry have won a green pennant since the club was founded in 1912 . ’ |
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 | EMMA Gordon , aged 15 , of Netherfield Close , Alton has won a national music prize through her Grade VII piano exam . |
20 | And at 12 noon , the Secretary of State for Employment had announced that RBS had won a coveted training award for the quality of its training programmes . |
21 | He missed easily and Brian Harley had won a spectacular victory . |
22 | Although ZANU-PF had won a comfortable victory in the March general election , voter turnout had been low ; the forcing of the one-party issue had led to strains within the party . |
23 | STUDIOS created for Courtaulds ' luxury flooring company Amtico have won a top design award . |
24 | The arrest was widely seen as the response of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed to the PBS 's defection from the ruling coalition before the October 1990 elections [ see pp. 37780-81 ] ; the PBS had won a comfortable majority in the Sabah Assembly [ see p. 37612 ] . |
25 | SUSSEX have won a three-year sponsorship deal with Merrydown Cider which could be worth as much as £250,000 . |
26 | Tony McTaminey has won a seven-month battle to set up a flower stall using a traditional , hand-painted barrow in the Linthorpe Road shopping precinct , Middlesbrough . |
27 | Anyway Leicester have won a free kick midway inside the Forest half . |