Example sentences of "[prep] election [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the April meeting would coincide with election day it has been brought forward a week to April 2 when Richard Wood of Durham Wildlife Trust will be the speaker . |
| 2 | At 1am on election night I interviewed Taib Mahmud as he relished his landslide ( ‘ … more of an avalanche , really ’ ) victory amid adulation and flashing camera lights . |
| 3 | He or she will be aided by volunteers who do doorstep canvassing to try to determine where supporters live : on election day they will keep a running tab on who has voted in order to ensure that support is maximized . |
| 4 | As long as there is a good reason why you will not be able to vote in person on election day you can apply to vote by post or proxy . |
| 5 | But the pollsters have a point when they complain that at election time they are like a doctor asked to make a diagnosis over the telephone . |
| 6 | At election time we have a talk and he watches TV and then it 's up to him where he puts his cross . |
| 7 | A canvass , cos I was a block steward , I used to collect the , the stubs and at election time we would do a canvass of our own block . |
| 8 | At election time it were well nigh impossible . |
| 9 | This certainly overstates the situation , but there is no doubt that party leaders in Parliament like to keep a free ( and vague ) policy hand , and in their speeches and campaigning around election time they are more likely to attack opponents and invoke positive symbols than to get down to the specifics of their own party programmes . |