Example sentences of "[adv] [be] elect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was within 18 months of retirement and has since been elected to the UK Central Council for Nursing , the profession 's regulatory body . |
| 2 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 3 | The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 . |
| 4 | The delegates had , however , gone further than the Premier by demanding on April 22 that the country 's President should henceforth be elected by popular vote , rather than by the two Houses of the Sejm , as at present . |
| 5 | The policy-making National Council of the PAICV announced after meeting on April 10-13 , 1990 , that the President would henceforth be elected by direct universal suffrage rather than as hitherto by deputies of the National People 's Assembly . |
| 6 | Sawtell stated that the type of socialist government that holds fictional office in the film ‘ would only be elected in an era of raised class consciousness and class struggle ’ . |
| 7 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 8 | In order to guarantee fair representation for a party securing 5.0% of the list votes , a super-constituency must return twenty members , of whom ten would normally be elected from lists . |
| 9 | Although the government is no longer chosen by the Commons , it nonetheless is elected through the House of Commons : there is no separate election of the executive . |
| 10 | The Assembly had 65 seats , made up as follows : 53 allocated directly to party lists on the basis of proportional representation ; 10 representing the 10 regional democratic councils or RDCs ( the RDCs having also been elected in polling on Oct. 5 ) ; and two chosen by the National Congress of Local Democratic Organizations ( NCLDO , itself elected by RDC members ) . |
| 11 | A proper understanding of the electron and other spin-1/2 particles did not come until 1928 , when a theory was proposed by Paul Dirac , who later was elected to the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge ( the same professorship that Newton had once held and that I now hold ) . |
| 12 | The majority of the members of the National Assembly and the Legislative Yuan hold seats for life , having originally been elected in 1947-48 to represent constituencies on the Chinese mainland . |
| 13 | He is typical of the moderate blacks now being elected in many states . |
| 14 | Those are three reasons why he will today be elected to Labour 's national executive , writes Colin Hughes . |
| 15 | It is likely that the next session will be decisive and that a curator will then be elected on a temporary basis : the appointment to direct the Visual Arts sector for the 1992 and 1995 Biennales can not be confirmed until the Executive Committee , whose mandate has now expired , has itself been completely renewed . |
| 16 | Elections to the National Assembly were now to take place through the direct and secret vote of the population — deputies having previously been elected by members of each of the country 's 14 provincial assemblies ( which were popularly elected ) from among their own members . |
| 17 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 18 | Another source of future friction lies in the failure of the congress to elevate Mr Pozsgay above other presidium members , some of whom had never been elected to a top party position . |
| 19 | They were hoping to create a little election history in Belfast , where brothers have never been elected to the city council at the same time . |
| 20 | I would like to er say that we are very grateful today to be able to welcome amongst us his grace erm , the most reverent Alwyn who has just recently been elected as the Archbishop of Wales . |
| 21 | Brazil 's best known green congressman , Fabio Feldmann , warned that several state governors in the Amazon have recently been elected on an anti-ecology ticket , promising to protect farmers who burn down the rain forest . |
| 22 | Had n't he actually been elected to the State Senate — old Jack Ryan 's youngest lad ? |
| 23 | Seats in the new national assembly could be left vacant for north Korean representatives , should the latter subsequently be elected on an acceptable basis ; the United States held that it was vitally important that the Soviet Union should not exercise a veto on the role of the UN in Korea . |