Example sentences of "[was/were] awarded a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witney 's winner came courtesy of a set piece ; Town were awarded a free kick which Dave Watson swung to the edge of the six yard box . |
| 2 | One minute later , as Milton were awarded a free kick just outside Lane 's penalty area , Nigel Mott of Milton was involved in a silly disagreement with the Rayners Lane keeper , Neil Keller , but the situation was well diffused by the referee . |
| 3 | The young practice , Birds Portsmouth & Russum , first prize winners in the RIBA Chichester Car Park Competition 1989 , were awarded a Civic Trust Award for their Avenue de Chartres Car Park scheme which demonstrated ‘ excellence in environmental design ’ . |
| 4 | His father , Nguyen Sinh Huy , a notable Chinese scholar , was awarded a doctoral degree . |
| 5 | The author was awarded a doctoral degree for her research on R S Thomas and edited Thomas 's Selected Prose in 1986 . |
| 6 | A rival Asian service , Geet FM , was awarded a temporary licence by the Radio Authority to broadcast in Leicester , but that runs out tomorrow . |
| 7 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 8 | As Sherry writhed around on the canvas , Eubank was awarded a technical decision after the backward butt which later brought a £10,000 Boxing Board of Control fine . |
| 9 | There he became an unattached member of the university and , in 1881 , at the age of forty-eight , was awarded a first-class degree in theology . |
| 10 | In 1863 she was awarded a first-class certificate . |
| 11 | In 1871 the Lowe–Vansittart propeller was awarded a first-class diploma at the Kensington exhibition , followed by similar awards worldwide . |
| 12 | Bullen was awarded a civil list pension in 1912 . |
| 13 | Earlier this year EDS , an autonomous subsidiary of General Motors , was awarded a five-year contract worth between £10 million and £15 million to run a social security computer centre at Livingston in Scotland . |
| 14 | In 1868 he was awarded a Minor Entrance Scholarship to Cambridge , and the School celebrated with an extra holiday on 8th May . |
| 15 | My Squadron 499 of the Air Training Corps became very successful , so much so that I was awarded a national honour , a Member of the British Empire , MBE ( Military ) . |
| 16 | In one celebrated case in 1975 , a colonel with a penchant for spanking unsuspecting women sued the " Sunday People " for exposing his activities ; he was awarded a derisory halfpenny . |
| 17 | It was because of this interest that he was awarded a Red Cross medal for services rendered to the sick and wounded during the Franco-Prussian war . |
| 18 | Sutherland was so successful that he established two additional Gardens , and was awarded a Royal Charter as King 's Botanist ( and Regius Keeper of the Royal Garden ) by William III in 1699 . |
| 19 | In 1944 he was awarded a free place as a weekly boarder at Rowan House School . |
| 20 | IDB which is in the process of purchasing TRT and bought Worldcom , another company that was awarded a provisional UK telecommunications licence late last year . |
| 21 | Bowles was awarded a big cheque from a tabloid newspaper and if his own self-professed myths are a guideline it could have been squandered at the nearest bookies . |