Example sentences of "[be] [adv] elect [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The final recommendation ( the committee had divided almost equally ) was for an assembly of which two-thirds would be directly elected with one-third elected by the territorial councils of chiefs . |
| 2 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the policy of Her Majesty 's Government on the number of seats that will be directly elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1995 . |
| 4 | Frei , replacing Andrés Zaldívar , became the first party leader in the PDC 's 34-year history to be directly elected to the post in a vote involving all party members . |
| 5 | Emboldened by its example , Hong Kong 's Legislative Councillors decided that not less than half their number should be directly elected in 1995 , and the rest 10 years later ; they later scaled the first figure down to 40 per cent , to win the suport of more conservative interest groups . |
| 6 | The BLDC political subcommittee ( composed of 10 Chinese and six Hong Kong representatives ) proposed that 30 per cent of the Hong Kong Legislative Council ( Legco ) would be directly elected in 1997 , rising to 40 per cent in 1999 and 50 per cent in 2003 [ for figures proposed under the second draft of the Basic Law published in February 1989 see p. 36763 ] . |
| 7 | The political model codified in the Basic Law proposed that one-third of the Hong Kong Legislative Council ( Legco ) be directly elected in 1997 , rising to half in 2003 . |
| 8 | Patten proposed that all 230 district and urban council seats be directly elected in 1995 ; currently , a third of the seats were appointed . |
| 9 | The agreement , between conservatives , moderates and liberals , calls for 40 per cent of the legislature to be directly elected by 1997 , and 60 per cent by 2001 . |
| 10 | This group is demanding that delegates to the party congress next July be directly elected by rank-and-file members . |
| 11 | Mr. Michael Latham presented a Bill to abolish the General Synod of the Church of England , on a date to be appointed ; to provide for the creation of a Church of England Assembly , consisting of a house of all diocesan , suffragan and assistant bishops , and a joint house of clergy and laity , to be directly elected by all Church of England clergy and lay persons on parochial electoral rolls ; to make provision for the Diocese of Sodor and Man ; to empower the Assembly to decide on all appropriate matters , except those within the legal responsibilities of the Church Commissioners , without further reference to Parliament ; to provide for the election of new bishops by members of the house of bishops , saving the right of final approval of the chosen candidate by the Crown ; to abolish the Ecclesiastical Committee ; to abolish the automatic places of bishops in the House of Lords ; to permit ordained clergy of the Church of England , with the consent of a diocesan bishop , to seek election to the House of Commons ; and for connected purposes : |
| 12 | Delegates endorsed wide-ranging changes , including the replacement of the party 's Marxist ideology by a commitment to " democratic socialism " , and plans for the president and legislature to be directly elected by universal secret ballot , and for a revised constitution which would guarantee freedom of expression , permit the formation of political parties , and end the MPLA-PT 's control over the armed forces . |
| 13 | Martin Lee , an outspoken critic of China and a proponent of full democracy for the territory , had called for half the Legco seats to be directly elected by 1995 . |
| 14 | In addition , the legislature was to be altered from the existing bicameral system [ see pp. 38626-27 ] to a unicameral system , whereby the People 's Great Hural was to be directly elected by all citizens over 25 years old . |
| 15 | But like cross-country , it will have a budget and the officers will be directly elected from the three English regions . |
| 16 | They were to be indirectly elected from the main local authorities . |
| 17 | Of the remaining seats , 152 would be elected on a proportional basis from county and metropolitan lists , and 58 were to be indirectly elected from national " compensation " lists nominated by the parties . |
| 18 | Of the single unitary voyage , worth 1.00,0.61 will have contributed to the election of Paisley , 0.10 will have contributed to the election of Craig , and 0.29 can pass to a third candidate ; and should that candidate be consequently elected with a transferable surplus , the 0.29 of a vote can , down-valued yet again , pass to yet a fourth candidate . |