Example sentences of "won a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Welsh , because they have n't won a Major professional event , keep proving themselves by winning Amateur Championships . |
| 2 | Before the second Test in Trinidad , England actually won a one-day international thanks to a superb unbeaten century from Gooch . |
| 3 | The situation had begun to deteriorate markedly after the elections of February 1936 returned an coalition of Liberal republicans , socialists , anarchists , communists and Trotskyists to power , even though the right-wing parties had won a small popular majority . |
| 4 | On 8 May 1429 the English abandoned the siege ; France , through Joan , had won a great moral victory . |
| 5 | The Open Software Foundation 's Research Institute has won a three-year multi-million dollar research contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Material Command to develop a distributed operating system for high-performance computing . |
| 6 | Cork Gully , appointed provisional liquidator of Kingscroft , El Paso , Lime Street and Mutual Reinsurance , has won a temporary freezing order on all their American assets and a stay on all litigation . |
| 7 | A NORTH West teacher has won a Gold International Award after completing an arduous series of sporting and community tasks . |
| 8 | Since then , Labour has never won a secure working majority at any election . |
| 9 | Worse , for Balestre , that wretched Englishman Mosley had won a massive psychological advantage in the election battle . |
| 10 | The city of Leicester in central England has won a national energy-saving competition . |
| 11 | STUDENT and part-time chef Michael Pearson has won a top national prize in the first competition he has entered . |