Example sentences of "has won a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | PAINT chief Mike Hennessy has won a pay rise that every boss will envy — 619 per cent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A TEENAGE schoolboy has won a court divorce from the bullying mother who made his life a misery . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They read a bulletin of ‘ News That Makes You Sick , ’ including an item that super-rich singer Michael Jackson has won a state lottery . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Volvo has won a safety award for its innovative integrated child seat fitted to all new 900-series saloons . |
| 11 | A revolutionary type of microlight aircraft has won a design council award . |
| 12 | Electronics design , sold even to Japan , has won a technology award for Solid State Logic of Begbroke , near Oxford . |
| 13 | GEC Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has won a volume supply contract with Conner Peripherals Inc projected to be worth about $100m over the next 30 months . |
| 14 | FOR THE FOURTH consecutive year John Wood Group PLC has won a RoSPA award for occupational safety . |
| 15 | A Monastery has won a tourist award for providing some of the best accomodation for holiday makers . |