Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a [num ord] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament elects a President for a four-year term ( the current President , Wee Kim Wee , having been re-elected for a second term in August 1989 — see below ) who appoints a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and responsible to Parliament . |
| 2 | A recent poll by El Pais predicts the Socialists will be swept into a third term of office on 29 October by an absolute majority . |
| 3 | On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 . |
| 4 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 5 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
| 6 | Since a Conservative government has been elected for a fourth term these developments will probably continue . |
| 7 | If by some mischance the Government are returned for a fourth term , I should be surprised if child benefit survives to the end of their term . |
| 8 | Haygarth Jackson was reappointed for a second term as chairman of Publications and Information Board . |
| 9 | At the last presidential elections , held on Jan. 31-Feb. 1 , 1988 , Mauno Koivisto , the candidate supported primarily by the SSDP , failed to win the required absolute majority but was re-elected for a second term by the electoral college on Feb. 15 [ see pp. 35853-54 ] . |
| 10 | Diouf was re-elected for a second term at the same time . |
| 11 | President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 . |
| 12 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 13 | In 1987 the Conservative Party was returned for a third term . |
| 14 | Geaga stood unsuccessfully on June 8 against the incumbent leader of the Phalangist Party ( also called the Ktaeb ) , George Saadeh , who was returned for a third term as party president . |