Example sentences of "[was/were] elect [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in the Association 's history , not one of the four Sabbatical Officers , or any of the Executive , were elected under a Party banner . |
| 2 | A further 144 full members and 59 candidate members were elected to the party 's central council ( Shura-e Markazi ) , and 33 members were elected to an Executive Board ( Hay'at-e Nezar ) . |
| 3 | Of the Assembly 's members 500 are from the legislative House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat , to which 400 were elected for a five-year term by direct universal adult suffrage in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] ; the remaining 100 were appointed by the President . |
| 4 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
| 5 | Delegates to the district zemstva were elected for a period of three years by three categories of voter voting separately : landowners , property-owners in the towns , and delegates from the volosti . |
| 6 | Both the Tories and Labour had 46 per cent of the vote in the 1955 general election , yet Conservatives were elected with a majority of 55 . |
| 7 | A change related to the smaller number of candidates is perhaps the increase over 1973 in the number of candidates who were elected with a quota at Stage I , 25 against 17 . |
| 8 | In 1985 , 48 Communist Euro-MPs were elected with a total of 15 million votes . |
| 9 | The President was elected by simple majority , while members of the National Assembly were elected on a regional proportional basis , each party or alliance presenting a list of candidates in each of the nine regions and the number of deputies elected depending on the population of the region ( for example 25 for Managua , five for the Atlantic coast region ) . |
| 10 | Two presidents were elected on a platform of doing something about it . |
| 11 | s were elected by a minority vote . |
| 12 | The new ministers were elected by an open ballot en bloc . |
| 13 | Chadli was elected for a further term as chairman of the FLN . |
| 14 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 15 | On Jan. 13 Mário Soares , 66 , was elected for a second five-year term as President . |
| 16 | The People 's Assembly , the unicameral legislative body , was elected for a five-year term by direct popular vote . |
| 17 | The President was elected for a five-year term , limited to two consecutive terms . |
| 18 | A general election was held in August 1991 [ see p. 38397 ] ; Wee Kim Wee was elected for a second four-year term in August 1989 [ see p. 37574 ] . |
| 19 | Ruslan Khasbulatov , Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , was elected for a one-year term as Chairman of the Assembly , whose seat would be St Petersburg ( Russia ) . |
| 20 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Assembly , comprising legislators from 16 member countries , elected Loïc Bouvard of France as president on Nov. 19 ; Bouvard , 63 , the first Frenchman to hold the post in 33 years , was elected for a two-year term to succeed Charles Rose , a member of the US Congress . |
| 21 | After the King 's speech , Abd Al-Latif Arabiyat of the Moslem Brotherhood was elected for a third consecutive term as Speaker of the House of Representatives , the Assembly 's lower chamber . |
| 22 | The 1964 Labour Government was elected on a tide of impatience at the slackening pace of social reform , but also of optimism that little more than economic growth , fuelled by technological change , was needed to remove the main causes of urban deprivation ( MacGregor , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | That is hardly surprising , as the crime rate has doubled in the 12 years since the Conservative party was elected on a promise of law and order . |
| 24 | Fujimori was elected on a second round of voting in June 1990 [ see p. 37528 ] . |
| 25 | Wilson ( Alliance ) was elected with a surplus at Stage IX after the transfer of Agnew 's ( UPNI ) votes nearly half of which went to him . |
| 26 | At a congress of the Alliance of Free Democrats ( SzDSz ) on Oct. 27-29 , 1989 , a new 30-member council was elected with a 15-member managing board . |
| 27 | In 1979 the Conservative Government was elected with a clear mandate to tackle the problem of excessive Union powers which was destroying the employment and the livelihood of thousands of people every week . |
| 28 | A year later , in 1979 , a Conservative government was elected with an unswerving commitment to nuclear power . |
| 29 | In this election , Senghor himself was elected to a third seven-year term as president . |
| 30 | In 1817 he was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Society , in whose Philosophical Transactions his sole mathematical paper ‘ On the Fluents of Irrational Functions ’ had appeared in 1816 . |