Example sentences of "[was/were] sworn in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lt.-Col. Moabi Mothibeli and Tsiliso Lehohla were sworn in as Military Council members . |
| 2 | Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) which had gained the largest number of seats in elections to the National Assembly held on Nov. 16 , 1988 ( see pp. 36347-48 ) , was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 2 , and a new federal Cabinet was appointed on Dec. 4 . |
| 3 | On April 26 Esko Aho , 36 , was sworn in as Prime Minister of a four-party centre-right coalition . |
| 4 | On May 16 Edith Cresson , 57 , was sworn in as Prime Minister , replacing Michel Rocard . |
| 5 | Prime Minister : Begum Khaleda Zia was sworn in as Prime Minister in March 1991 , and from October also held the portfolios of Defence , Establishment and Cabinet Division . |
| 6 | On July 13 Itzhak Rabin , chair of the Israel Labour Party since February , was sworn in as Prime Minister and announced the composition of his Cabinet . |
| 7 | On Dec. 17 Franz Vranitzky was sworn in as Federal Chancellor at the head of a " grand coalition " of his own Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) and the centre-right People 's Party ( ÖVP ) . |
| 8 | Biju Patnaik of Janata Dal was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Hemandanda Biswal , who had held the post for Congress ( I ) since early December . |
| 9 | D. Ramachandran of the DMK was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 8 , replacing M. O. H. Farooq of Congress ( I ) . |
| 10 | On April 6 Churchill Alemao was sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a Progressive Democratic Front ( PDF ) government . |
| 11 | President 's rule , in force in Goa for 43 days , was lifted on Jan. 25 , when the leader of a breakaway group of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister . |
| 12 | Jayalalitha , the A-IADMK general secretary , was sworn in as Chief Minister on June 24 . |
| 13 | Meade , who had accused the Osborne administration of corruption and mismanagement and promised to restore honesty and integrity in government , was sworn in as Chief Minister on Oct. 10 . |
| 14 | President 's rule , which had been imposed in December after the PDF 's main component , the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , withdrew from the PDF , was lifted in late January 1991 and the leader of the breakaway MGP group , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister [ see p. 37915 ; 37964 ] . |
| 15 | The BJP defeated Congress ( I ) in State Assembly elections held in February 1990 ; Sunderlal Patwa was sworn in as Chief Minister , replacing Shyama Charan Shukla [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 16 | K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Oct. 9 to replace N. Janardhan Reddy , who resigned after the High Court ruled that permission to open a private medical college in Nellore , granted to Reddy 's wife , had been " vitiated by bias " . |
| 17 | Gonzalo Menendez Park was sworn in as Foreign Minister on Oct. 22 , replacing Alvaro Arzú Irigoyen who had resigned in September [ see p. 38432 ] . |
| 18 | Following the presidential elections on May 7 , 1989 , the result of which was annulled by Noriega on May 10 [ see p. 36645 ] , Francisco Rodríguez , a close friend of Noriega and former comptroller general of the treasury , was sworn in as provisional President on Sept. 1 [ see p. 36846 ] . |
| 19 | In March Suharto was sworn in as acting President and in December 1967 Sukarno was placed under house arrest in Bogor . |
| 20 | The next day Ershad formally resigned and Shehabuddin Ahmed was sworn in as acting President in a brief ceremony attended by , amongst others , Gen. Khan and the main opposition leaders . |
| 21 | Hugh Desmond Hoyte , who had assumed office on Aug. 6 , 1985 [ see p. 33977 ] , was sworn in as elected President on Dec. 12 [ see p. 34162 ] . |
| 22 | Kitingan , who described the election results as " heartening " , was sworn in for another term as Chief Minister on July 18 . |
| 23 | Nevertheless the Northern Ireland Executive was sworn in on 31 December 1973 and took office the following day . |
| 24 | Elections to the territory 's legislative assembly were held in June and resulted in a victory for Congress ( I ) ; a six-member Congress ( I ) ministry led by V. Vaithilingam was sworn in in early July [ see pp. 38287 ; 38338 ] . |