Example sentences of "to be elected to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Profitboss therefore has no desire to be elected to the board . |
| 2 | Maureen has the distinction of being the first woman to be elected to the Officer Board to a position other than Women 's Special Representative . |
| 3 | She was one of the first women to be elected to the fellowship of the Linnean Society ( 1905 ) . |
| 4 | She was an apostle of teacher training and as the first woman to be elected to the senate of London University promoted the foundation of the London Day Training College and the accompanying chair in education . |
| 5 | Democrat Carol Moseley from Illinios became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate . |
| 6 | On Sept. 30 Ingegerd Troedsson ( Moderate Party ) was elected as the Speaker of the Riksdag ( Sweden 's second highest ranking official after the monarch ) , the first woman to be elected to the post , in a narrow victory over the incumbent Thage Peterson ( Social Democrat ) . |
| 7 | The election in November 1990 of Mary Robinson as President , the first woman to be elected to the post , represented a watershed in Irish politics since it " forced the country 's leadership to take a fresh look at Irish society " ( Financial Times of Dec. 18 , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |