Example sentences of "won a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd won a coveted Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award . |
| 2 | On completion of his secondary education at Q.R.C. , the young Eric Williams had won a coveted scholarship to Oxford . |
| 3 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit . |
| 4 | More than a hundred demonstrators have won a partial victory over proposed cuts in Gloucestershire social services . |
| 5 | Gloucestershire County Council has won a partial victory in its appeal against poll tax capping . |
| 6 | National assertiveness reached the largest and most important of the Soviet Union 's republics , the Russian , in May 1990 , following the elections to the republican Congress of People 's Deputies in which radical candidates had won a substantial proportion of the vote ( see above , p. 59 ) . |
| 7 | WOOD GROUP Fire Protection 's projects department recently won a substantial order from Newfoundland Offshore Contractors in Canada for the design and supply of fire protection and safety equipment for the Hibernia field development . |
| 8 | John Prescot has won a key post in the new shadow cabinet , moving from transport to employment . |
| 9 | Ileana felt that women had won a new respect after this military operation , not only from their own organization but throughout the FMLN . |
| 10 | When the 1976 election returns were in , Jimmy Carter was found to have won a narrow victory over Gerald Ford . |
| 11 | On June 11 the Central Electoral Board announced that the incumbent President , Joaquín Balaguer , had won a narrow victory in the May 16 presidential election [ see p. 37448 ] . |
| 12 | It has shown what organized action can achieve and , in comparison to the situation of the common prisoners , has won a surprising degree of autonomy . |
| 13 | Edinburgh 's Douglas Watson , who has already won a major award in the US for his three dimensional illustration work has created his study from a clay panel . |
| 14 | McDevitt Street Bovis have also won a major contract at Prince George 's County Hospital in Cheverly , Maryland . |
| 15 | The department has also won a major order from Phillips Petroleum for fire protection equipment for the North Sea Judy/Joanne fields development project . |
| 16 | OUT OF the ruins of super-SARA , the EEC 's science commissioner Etienne Davignon has won a major reform to decision-making for the EEC 's Joint Research Centre . |
| 17 | Oh you can never mind this country 's never won a major war on its own and never will do |
| 18 | I 'm saying that I 'm an English member , we 've never won a , a major war on its own look what 's , what 's happened in , yeah , never won a major war on its own and never will do , there 's no nation in the world could beat a German army and , er what would built up |
| 19 | THE West Somerset Railway have won a major prize in the Ratcliff Mobility Awards . |
| 20 | ‘ Celtic have not won a major trophy for a while and have lost out to rivals Rangers . |
| 21 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 22 | In all but one of the elections since 1945 , one party has won a absolute majority of the seats and the leader of that party has formed a government . |
| 23 | Brough Park 's leading performer of late , Burnhope Jimmy , will be strongly fancied to win the Long March Stayers Stakes , over 670 metres , having won a similar event at Middlesbrough earlier in the month . |
| 24 | The Tribune Company had already won a similar battle in Chicago in 1985 and seemed confident that it could repeat this profitable victory in New York . |
| 25 | A lesbian couple has won a three-year battle with Hampshire County Council to foster a child after being denied permission on the grounds of their sexuality . |
| 26 | FOSTER WHEELER Wood Group have won a three-year contract from Amerda Hess to provide engineering services , in conjunction with Foster Wheeler Petroleum Development , London . |
| 27 | While the government negotiator Fanus Schoeman insists that the ANC has agreed to share power because a government of national unity is power-sharing , the ANC leader Nelson Mandela said on Saturday that an interim government of national unity was not power-sharing and that the body would include all parties who have won a certain proportion of seats in a constituent assembly . |
| 28 | Tadpole Technology Plc , Cambridge , UK reports that its Austin , Texas-based US operation has won a singular accolade from Sun Microsystems Inc : Sun 's Lincoln , Massachusetts-based SunExpress unit is to carry the Sparcbook Unix-based notebook computer , offering it to end users and resellers via its SunExpress telemarketing sales operation . |
| 29 | ‘ Things have n't been going well since my England call-up , ’ said Ferdinand , who thought he should have won a late penalty after colliding with Chris Woods . |
| 30 | For the moment the protestors have only won a temporary stay of execution . |