Example sentences of "had been award the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was indeed his year for honours since in January he had been awarded the Order of Merit by George VI ; some have said that this gratified him more than the Nobel , and certainly he seemed to enjoy wearing the medal and ribbon on ceremonial occasions . |
| 2 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 3 | WGPT sales manager , announced at the conference that , as a result of co-operation between the two companies , they had been awarded the Shell Offshore Inc . |
| 4 | At the beginning of August Eurotunnel also announced that Racal had been awarded the contract to supply voice and data communications within the Tunnel in the face of fierce competition from Alcatel , Siemens and other major European Companies . |
| 5 | He returned late that afternoon , eager with the good news that they had been awarded the Rouen-Dieppe contract . |
| 6 | He had been awarded the Hanseatic-Goethe prize but was unable to make the trip to Germany in order to receive it , and even now was attempting to prepare an address for the following year . |
| 7 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 8 | Aung San Suu Kyi 's expulsion from the NLD , some two months after she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , was the latest attempt by the ruling junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , to undermine her position as the main symbol of opposition to military rule . |
| 9 | He had served with distinction in the Great War and had been awarded the MC ; his lessons were marked by great thoroughness , and he was an early pioneer of audio-visual and Direct Method techniques of teaching French . |
| 10 | Brabham eventually had his first success in his own car in the 1966 French Grand Prix , shortly before which he had been awarded the OBE for his services to the sport . |
| 11 | United Left ( IU ) , which had been awarded the seat in a recount on Nov. 11 , appealed to the Constitutional Court against the decision . |
| 12 | ‘ A BOLT from the blue ’ is how Dounreay 's Myrtle Gillies described hearing of her ‘ thrilling ’ news that she had been awarded the MBE in The Queen 's birthday honours . |