Example sentences of "[v-ing] be elected in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an Associate of the Royal Academy , having been elected in 1855 . |
| 2 | ( The qualification " available " is necessary because some list candidates would have disappeared , having been elected in constituencies . ) |
| 3 | The House elects the President of the Republic for a five-year term , the current incumbent , Vincent Tabone , having been elected in April 1989 [ see p. 36599 ] . |
| 4 | Despite the protests , local elections for the country 's large provincial and metropolitan assemblies went ahead on June 20 as scheduled — the smaller assemblies having been elected in May , the first such elections in more than three decades . |
| 5 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |
| 6 | The primary system was adopted in 1992 , in place of a system of simple plurality ( first-past-the-post ) , in order to prevent a candidate from winning executive office with less than 50 per cent of the vote ( Etpison having been elected in 1988 , against six rival candidates , with only 26 per cent of the total vote ) . |