Example sentences of "has won a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , Sequent Computer Systems Ltd , Weybridge , Surrey , has won a £1.2m contract from Nuclear Electric — the UK 's state owned nuclear power generator — to supply 15 Symmetry 2000/200 systems , which replace the existing ICL mainframes . |
| 2 | Newcastle University 's School of Education has won a £15,000 Audit Commission contract to study pupils ' attainment at GCSE . |
| 3 | Unisys Corp 's French subsidiary has won a $9.3m order from the Agricultural Bank of Algeria to automate its 250 branches and 36 agencies in competition with Groupe Bull SA and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme . |
| 4 | Digital Equipment Corp has won a $3m contract from China 's Baoshan Steel to link the mill 's computers into the largest network DEC has sold in Asia , regional president Edmund Reilly said : a 40-mile optical fibre system will link all of Baoshan 's existing and future computers into a single , integrated enterprise network , Reilly told Reuter , and will provide videoconferencing services for the plant outside Shanghai ; DEC was chosen because of its well-established Chinese sales and service network that includes licenced local partners and offices in Shanghai , Peking and Guangzhou , Reilly said . |
| 5 | ICL Plc has won a $3m contract , from the Hungarian National Bank . |
| 6 | Intergraph UK Ltd , Swindon , Wiltshire , has won a £1.7m contract from London-based systems consultant Logica plc for 30 workstations and five servers that Logica will use to develop a records maintenance system for Anglain Water Services . |
| 7 | £100,000 grant : The NorthEast has won a £100,000 Government grant for adult education courses run by the Workers Educational Association in schools , community centres and colleges throughout the region . |
| 8 | Apparently Reader 's Digest do this kind of thing all the time , though nobody that anybody has ever known or met has won a brass halfpenny . |
| 9 | Coventry , UK : Courtaulds Engineering has won a £750,000 contract in connection with a new cellulose flake plant for Courtaulds Chemicals at Spondon . |
| 10 | A DUNFERMLINE reader , James Wilkie , has won a £1,000 computer in The Scotsman Budget competition with a highly accurate prediction of Mr Lamont 's plans . |
| 11 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 12 | A fully equipped microscope that is small enough to fit into a pocket has won a BBC Product Design award . |
| 13 | Press Construction of Darlington has won a £12m contract to install new mains and services in Northumberland and Wearside for British Gas . |
| 14 | Last year 's Sainsbury's/British Airways promotion has won a Gold Award from the Institute of Sales Promotion for the best consumer promotion run by a multiple retailer . |
| 15 | ARTIST David Mach has won a £12,000 prize for his sculpture of a rock star made from coathangers . |
| 16 | PAINT chief Mike Hennessy has won a pay rise that every boss will envy — 619 per cent . |
| 17 | Only Anne Gibson has won a singles medal for Scotland in the championships — a bronze in 1987 — and McEwan , just 17 , has an outside chance of repeating that . |
| 18 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 19 | A self-taught blacksmith has won a prestige commission to create new gates for Hereford Cathedral.The job will take him three months to complete . |
| 20 | San Jose , California , Motorola Inc 's Commercial Systems Division has won a $5m deal from Plano , Texas-based Paging Network Inc , the paging services specialist , to install its Unix-based Motorola 68040 systems in 40 of its offices nationwide . |
| 21 | A TEENAGE schoolboy has won a court divorce from the bullying mother who made his life a misery . |
| 22 | Neil Kinnock has won a standing ovation from the Labour Party faithful at their conference in Blackpool , by presenting himself as the next Prime Minister . |
| 23 | AROMAN Catholic Democrat who supports abortion has won a California State Senate seat in a traditional Republican constituency , thanks to the unintentional help of her bishop . |
| 24 | Only one Irish-owned dog has won a UK title , Ch. |
| 25 | Fifteen-year-old schoolboy Adrian Clarke from Archbishop Tenison 's School in Kennington , opposite The Oval , has won a school competition to paint a cricket themed poster . |
| 26 | Dallas-based BancTec Inc has won a $1.7m order from the Bank of England for a stand-alone check clearing system : the Old Lady will use three BancTec 5500 document transports and the associated peripherals in its London clearing centre . |
| 27 | Laureate Instruments has won a £1000 NatWest/BP award to help develop an invention to simplify and speed up melting point measurements in chemistry laboratories . |
| 28 | They read a bulletin of ‘ News That Makes You Sick , ’ including an item that super-rich singer Michael Jackson has won a state lottery . |
| 29 | But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future . |
| 30 | Ferranti International Plc , Manchester , says its Ferranti Technologies Inc unit has won a $9.8m contract amendment to improve the air combat training range being supplied to the United Arab Emirates . |