Example sentences of "[was/were] swear in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government of the Peoples National Movement were sworn in on Friday , October 26 , 1956 , its first aim achieved , it was now on the road toward its foremost goal , full internal self-government and the elimination of colonialism . |
| 2 | Mitsotakis and his 38-member Cabinet ( including alternate and junior ministers ) were sworn in on April 11 . |
| 3 | The new Cabinet members were sworn in on Dec. 21 . |
| 4 | Gen. Joao de Matos , hitherto chief of the government 's ground forces , and Gen. Ahilo Camalata Numa , commander of UNITA 's northern front , were sworn in on Nov. 14 as the Supreme Command of Angola 's armed forces . |
| 5 | The first 1,000 guardsmen were sworn in at a ceremony in Tbilisi on Feb. 23 , the Soviet Army Day public holiday . |
| 6 | At the session five new members of the Cabinet were sworn in as Ministers without portfolio . |
| 7 | Lt.-Col. Moabi Mothibeli and Tsiliso Lehohla were sworn in as Military Council members . |
| 8 | On Sept. 28 a new national army , the Angolan Armed Forces ( FAA ) , was established under the joint command of Gen. Antonio dos Santos França Ndalu and Gen. Arlindo Chenda Pena Ben-Ben who were sworn in as the Chiefs of General Staff on the same day . |
| 9 | After three years as a cadet carrying out basic police tasks around the station , I was sworn in as a constable . |
| 10 | ATHENS ( UPI ) — The Greek Chief Justice , Yannis Grivas , was sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister , with a 20-member cabinet of judges and retired army men , to take the country into general elections on 5 November . |
| 11 | Mr Endara was sworn in as President shortly after midnight last night , on a US military base , in the presence of a US Major-General , with members of Panamanian human rights groups as witnesses . |
| 12 | Only hours after Kennedy 's death , Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as President on board the presidential aircraft , Air Force One . |
| 13 | In March Suharto was sworn in as acting President and in December 1967 Sukarno was placed under house arrest in Bogor . |
| 14 | Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) which had gained the largest number of seats in elections to the National Assembly held on Nov. 16 , 1988 ( see pp. 36347-48 ) , was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 2 , and a new federal Cabinet was appointed on Dec. 4 . |
| 15 | Chimanbhai Patel was sworn in as the Janata Dal Chief Minister on March 5 . |
| 16 | Sunderlal Patwa was sworn in as the BJP Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Shyama Charan Shukla of Congress ( I ) who had held the post since early December [ ibid . ] . |
| 17 | Biju Patnaik of Janata Dal was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Hemandanda Biswal , who had held the post for Congress ( I ) since early December . |
| 18 | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of the BJP was sworn in as the new Chief Minister on March 3 , replacing Harideo Joshi , Congress ( I ) Chief Minister since early December . |
| 19 | D. Ramachandran of the DMK was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 8 , replacing M. O. H. Farooq of Congress ( I ) . |
| 20 | Following the presidential elections on May 7 , 1989 , the result of which was annulled by Noriega on May 10 [ see p. 36645 ] , Francisco Rodríguez , a close friend of Noriega and former comptroller general of the treasury , was sworn in as provisional President on Sept. 1 [ see p. 36846 ] . |
| 21 | Sam Nujoma was sworn in as Namibia 's first President by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar . |
| 22 | On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 23 | On July 1 , 1989 , Chintamani Panigrahi , a former Minister of State for Defence Production [ see above ] , was sworn in as Governor of Manipur . |
| 24 | On July 1 , 1989 , A. A. Rahim was sworn in as Governor of Meghalaya , the first separate governor for the state . |
| 25 | On July 1 , 1989 , Capt. W. A. Sangma , a former Chief Minister of Meghalaya , was sworn in as Governor of Mizoram . |
| 26 | On July 1 Gopal Singh was sworn in as Governor of Nagaland after the transfer of Gen. ( retd ) K. V. Krishna Rao to Jammu and Kashmir [ see above ] . |
| 27 | On March 20 , 1989 , Thanga Velly Rajeshwar ( Governor of Sikkim since 1985 — see p. 34680 ) was sworn in as Governor of West Bengal , replacing S. Nural Hassan who had been appointed Governor of Orissa in November 1988 [ see p. 36694 ] . |
| 28 | On April 6 Churchill Alemao was sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a Progressive Democratic Front ( PDF ) government . |
| 29 | Surjit Singh Barnala , Chief Minister of Punjab between 1985 and 1987 , was sworn in as Governor of the southern state of Tamil Nadu on May 24 . |
| 30 | Lee Teng-hui , chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party ( KMT ) , was sworn in as President of Taiwan at a ceremony in Taipei , the capital , on May 20 , having been chosen by the country 's electoral college in March [ see pp. 37318-19 ] . |