Example sentences of "has won a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel Karafistan , now 18 , who co-founded the Bare Essentials Youth Theatre , will know soon whether she has won a day at the Olivier theatre , working with actors and directors including Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen and Richard Eyre , as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge . |
| 2 | He has won a day for himself and a companion at Doncaster Races on March 19 the opening meeting of the Flat by providing the first correct entry opened in our recent racing competition . |
| 3 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 4 | This year the scheme has won a grant from Children in Need but the cheque will be sent back if local people continue to snub the event , she added . |
| 5 | If one girl now has more than 24 beads , she has won a hole for each four beads on the other player 's side . |
| 6 | Mr D. Ling from Colchester in Essex has won a trip to Club St. Lucia as a result of entering the exclusive competition in the Feb/March issue of Tennis World . |
| 7 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 8 | THE Surrey-based management consultancy and computer services group , P-E International , has won a contract worth about £500,000 annually to develop and maintain software for the big Edinburg-based life assurance company , Standard Life . |
| 9 | THE Capita Group has won a contract worth around £24 million over five years to manage financial services for the London borough of Bromley , it was announced yesterday . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , CCG has won a contract at Glenalmond College in Perthshire , and this success could be a breakthrough into a new market for the company in Scotland . |
| 11 | Toronto-based CAE Industries Ltd reports that its CAE-Link Corp unit has won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence for a higher formation battle trainer for the British Army : terms were not disclosed , but CAE-Link will develop , install and maintain a command-and-control trainer to simulate a round-the-clock battle in real time for up to six weeks , creating the battlefield communications flow between the staff being trained , higher headquarters and subordinate unit headquarters ; it will consist of a central server networked to 170 controller and operator stations at two sites in the UK and Germany ; it has to be transportable for use at other training sites . |
| 12 | Compiler house Lucid Inc , Menlo Park , California , has won a contract from the US defence agency , DARPA , to integrate Lisp , C and C++ environments for various image-understanding projects currently underway . |
| 13 | Comma Oil & Chemicals has won a Power for Efficiency and Productivity ( PEP ) award — part of Seeboard 's annual Business Energy Efficiency awards — following the installation of thermosafe induction heaters developed by LMK Engineering . |
| 14 | A SCOTTISH haulage firm facing a week 's suspension by the Department of Transport has won a stay of execution . |
| 15 | They have organized a powerful and disciplined committee which has won a number of major concessions from the prison authorities and which , with the help of the Committee of Mothers and other human rights organizations , has kept the existence of political prisoners in the public eye , to the discomfort of the government . |
| 16 | SMALLEY has won a prize as Derbyshire 's best-kept large village . |
| 17 | Dutch 's owner Ron Smith , f rom Manor Road , said : ‘ He has won a lot of championships already including best of breed . |
| 18 | You get another player like Jimmy White , wonderful player to watch , I mean , you know , flashes the ball all over the place , knocks it in , wonderful player , er and has won a lot of championships , but Jimmy 's a totally different character , does n't practice anywhere near as much as Steve Davis . |
| 19 | The Lord has won a victory over my feelings in this area although there are still skirmishes from time to time ! |
| 20 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |
| 21 | WESTLAND Engineering , a subsidiary of Westland Helicopters in Yeovil , has won a deal worth £34m . |
| 22 | The former detective hero has won a role as a mobster in a new American cop series The Commish . |
| 23 | The former Soviet leader has won a role in the latest Wim Wenders film Far Away So Close . |
| 24 | One of the world 's richest colonies of blue coral , situated off Japan 's southern island of Ishigaki has won a reprieve from development and , marine biologists believe , destruction . |
| 25 | Now Affleck , who turned pro as a teenager , has won a place on next year 's European Tour following his outstanding season as he finished top of the European Challenge Tour , winning £39,769 official prize money . |
| 26 | The South Wales player , who yesterday reached the final of the BWTA tournament at Queen 's Club , has won a place at Oxford and starts a degree course in psychology and sociology at St Hilda 's College in September , 1991 . |
| 27 | The 18-year-old from Dinas Powys , currently Britain 's best young player , learned this week that she has won a place at St Hilda 's College for September 1991 to study physiology and psychology . |
| 28 | Lisa Keenan , 17 , from Oxton has won a place at the University of Northumbria , while Lisa Hudson , 18 , from Claughton will study at the Preston-based University of Central Lancashire . |
| 29 | A TALENTED North-East teenager has won a place at the prestigious National Youth Theatre . |
| 30 | As well as £2,000 , and a trophy presented by the Duchess of Kent , he has won a place in the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year heats in Brussels in June . |