Example sentences of "have won a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Volvo has won a safety award for its innovative integrated child seat fitted to all new 900-series saloons . |
| 3 | •The Performing Right Society ( PRS ) has won a High Court action to prevent the owner of the Miramar Hotel , Blackpool , Lancashire , from operating a television in the hotel lounge . |
| 4 | AROMAN Catholic Democrat who supports abortion has won a California State Senate seat in a traditional Republican constituency , thanks to the unintentional help of her bishop . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Otherwise , Mr Kaifu has won a small but notable victory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the YF-22 has won a long , hard dogfight against its rival prototype , the YF-23 , to become the air force 's next fighter . |
| 10 | The Government has won a very important victory . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Laureate Instruments has won a £1000 NatWest/BP award to help develop an invention to simplify and speed up melting point measurements in chemistry laboratories . |
| 15 | Troughton McAslan Architects has won a limited LDDC competition for an office and retail development on the ‘ Lipstick site ’ at the western gateway to the Isle of Dogs . |
| 16 | Only one Irish-owned dog has won a UK title , Ch. |
| 17 | Schaden Illiad has won a Best in Show at Championship Show level and has also been the top winning dog on two occasions . |
| 18 | EMMA Gordon , aged 15 , of Netherfield Close , Alton has won a national music prize through her Grade VII piano exam . |
| 19 | A fully equipped microscope that is small enough to fit into a pocket has won a BBC Product Design award . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The first advertisement in the Not all chemists wear white coats campaign run by the RSC 's Careers Through Chemistry Committee has won a national award . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | R. Bennett in North Yorkshire has won a Washburn XS8 bass and an Ampeg SVT15EV combo , and Campbell Tidey of Hertfordshire has got himself an Epiphone EM-2MR guitar and the Crate G160XL guitar combo . |
| 26 | Small shareholders ' champion Gideon Fiegel — the man who led the revolt against Sugar — has won a battle , but it is too soon to say whether or not he has won the war . |
| 27 | A TEENAGE schoolboy has won a court divorce from the bullying mother who made his life a misery . |
| 28 | A TORY MP 's wife has won a three-year battle to inherit the Pounds 10 million mansion that inspired Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead Revisited . |
| 29 | ARTIST David Mach has won a £12,000 prize for his sculpture of a rock star made from coathangers . |
| 30 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |