Example sentences of "elections would [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A joint candidate for the next presidential elections would be selected through the holding of " primaries " . |
| 2 | The Senate amendment provided that the right of EC citizens resident in France to vote in European and local elections would be covered by a law " voted in the same terms by both assemblies " , whereas the National Assembly under Article 45 of the Constitution could be asked by the government to " rule definitively " on legislation if the two houses could not agree . |
| 3 | The Interim Committee reached the decision on 26 February 1948 that UNTCOK should adhere to the original intention in so far as this could be accomplished ; elections would be supervised in the south but nothing could be done about the north . |
| 4 | Fourth , it stipulated that once Saddam Hussein had been overthrown " direct and free " elections would be held to a constituent council , which would in turn draw up a new constitution . |
| 5 | Under the reform , elections would be held under a system of proportional representation , with officials re-electable for four-year periods but unable to occupy several positions at the various levels of local and regional government at the same time . |
| 6 | According to a timetable finalized the following month , the constitution would be amended by April 1991 and multiparty elections would be held in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 7 | In response the government , eager to distance itself from the ruling FLN , which was itself in disarray [ see pp. 37628 ; 37795-96 ] , and secure its own survival , promised that free and open parliamentary elections would be held in the first half of 1991 . |
| 8 | The government consistently denied rumours of an early poll , claiming that no parliamentary elections would be held before the presidential contest due in April 1991 , although local elections at sub-district level were expected to go ahead in May 1990 , after the success of similar elections in the Chittagong Hill Tracts on June 25 , 1989 ( see p. 36736 ) . |
| 9 | On May 7 , at the end of a visit to Washington , Biya had said in a radio interview that presidential elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 10 | The commission would draft a new constitution to be put to a referendum , and if it won popular support , multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held before the end of the year . |