Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] elect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress . |
| 2 | Of the 40 members of the State Council , serving a five-year term , 22 members were directly elected on Dec. 6 , and the remaining 18 , representing professional and other interest groups , were chosen on Dec. 10 . |
| 3 | The 79-member Constituent Assembly , the majority of whose members were directly elected in December 1990 to draft a new constitution [ see pp. 37450 ; 37914 ] , voted by 54 votes to nine on June 8 to dissolve the existing Congress on July 2 , although it still had 2@1/2 years to run , and to hold fresh legislative elections on Oct. 27 . |
| 4 | What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Aldermen were indirectly elected by the councillors for a six-year term and comprised one-quarter of the total council membership . |
| 7 | India 's first Nationalist Congress met in 1886 and Indian M.P.s were even elected to the Imperial parliament . |
| 8 | Eleven people were then elected from the floor . |
| 9 | I was duly elected without a vote being needed , onto the Standing Committee , as were five other people . |
| 10 | They selected Hughes , who was duly elected with an 11,867 majority , but two years ago changed their mind and de-selected him . |
| 11 | Mr Edwards accepted and was duly elected as Treasurer until the election of Officers at the next Annual General Meeting . |
| 12 | One of the strikers , Bobby Sands , was overwhelmingly elected as an MP in the Fermanagh and Tyrone by-election . |
| 13 | Although he was apparently elected by the people of the Auvergne , he was approached by Alchima and Placidina , the mother and wife of Apollinaris , who asked him to step down in favour of their candidate . |
| 14 | Such a government was finally elected on 14 August 1949 after an intense election campaign . |
| 15 | The Council was generally elected for a six-year term , but the 1990 elections were called after those of 1986 were annulled on a technicality . |
| 16 | On April 4 Flosse was formally elected as President of the territorial government . |
| 17 | Under the 1987 Constitution an executive President was elected by the 51-member National Assembly which itself was directly elected for a five-year term . |
| 18 | Between them these parties also took all seven seats in the Bosnia-Hercegovina state Presidency , which was directly elected in separate voting on Nov. 18 . |
| 19 | He was returned in November for Rye instead , and was also elected to the 1679 Parliament for the same seat . |
| 20 | He was also elected to honorary membership of the Institutions of Civil , Mechanical , and Electrical Engineers . |
| 21 | I was also elected to the Raleigh Club , which met periodically in Rhodes House . |
| 22 | In the absence of an alternative slate of candidates , seven comandantes of the old leadership were re-elected to a nine-member national directorate ( DN ) , headed by former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra who was also elected to the new post of FSLN secretary-general . |
| 23 | Chipenda was also elected to the political bureau . |
| 24 | It was the Labour party and a Labour Government who created investment into Wales before the present Prime Minister was even elected to this honourable House . |
| 25 | Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima , who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki . |
| 26 | Dory Chamoun was unanimously elected as leader of the right-wing National Liberal Party on May 25 , in succession to his brother , Dany Chamoun , who had been assassinated in October 1990 [ see p. 37793 ] . |
| 27 | Following the resignation of Ernst Pedro Casseus as president of the Chamber of Deputies ( lower house of parliament ) after disagreements over his decision to suspend the session , Duly Brutus was unanimously elected as the chamber 's new president on Aug. 20 . |
| 28 | Mr W. M. Haggarty of Ayr was unanimously elected Vice-Chairman in place of Mr C. Smith who also retired at this time , and Mr A. D. Lamond of Perth was unanimously elected to the Committee . |
| 29 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 30 | Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) . |