Example sentences of "[be] elected [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It says something for Ramsey 's person and mind and reputation that one of the two most Anglo-Catholic professors in England could be elected on the proposal of two nonconformists .
2 The President would be elected on the basis of universal , equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot for a five-year term .
3 On June 7 , the government named a committee of experts which would draw up proposals for a draft constitution on the basis of previous constitutions and the report of the National Commission of Democracy , which advocated an executive president and a national assembly , both to be elected on the basis of universal suffrage , an independent judiciary and guarantees of human rights .
4 Smith supporters have been forced to confront the allegations of a union stitch-up ; as a result , he will probably be the last leader to be elected under the current rules .
5 Since both were deemed to be elected with the same quota of 8,585 votes reality was replaced by fiction .
6 The new Constitution created the post of vice-president , to be elected with the president for a five-year term by a simple majority of votes .
7 With the Second Ballot the winning candidate must poll more than half the votes to be elected at the first ballot .
8 The party newspaper Nhan Dan reports that at least two-thirds of the next 124-strong Central Committee , to be elected at the end of the congress , will be under 60 .
9 ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above .
10 In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election .
11 A new party leader was to be elected at the 10th PLA congress , due in June .
12 A new Commission is due to be elected at the end of the year , and it is possible that Van Miert may only hold his post until then .
13 Officers and the management committee will be elected at the centre 's annual meeting on Monday at 7pm .
14 The off , all officers of the club should be elected at the A G M , which would be held on a .
15 All officers of the club should be elected at the A G M.
16 On Dec. 30 President Violeta Chamorro de Barrios ordered police officers to seize the National Assembly building and its assets and documents , stating that an interim board of directors would be appointed prior to a meeting of the National Assembly on Jan. 9 when new officers could be elected for the Assembly .
17 Yourcenar ( an anagram on the family name of Crayencour ) was not an academic , but as one of France 's most highly-regarded novelists , she was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy .
18 The newly-elected councillor must not expect to be elected to the more important committees unless he has special qualifications for any committee .
19 The Profitboss therefore has no desire to be elected to the board .
20 There was FDP resentment at Adenauer 's domination of government , and over his consideration of an electoral reform which would make it even more difficult for small parties to be elected to the Bundestag .
21 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 .
22 New developments in British art after 1860 , and his failure to be elected to the Royal Academy , led to a solitary later career .
23 She was one of the first women to be elected to the fellowship of the Linnean Society ( 1905 ) .
24 I think I said how it would please me if one day he were to be elected to the Cullbridge Athenaeum .
25 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 .
26 In a presidential election on Nov. 7 Mary Robinson , the candidate supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , became the first woman to be elected to the ( largely ceremonial ) post .
27 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 .
28 Ortega promised that at the next congress , scheduled for 1995 , the DN would be elected by individual votes directly cast in a secret ballot and that a woman would be elected to the leadership .
29 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 ) .
30 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 ) .
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