Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Clarke entered the Royal Military Academy , and in 1847 came first in his class and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers . |
| 3 | France was pushed to the same position in part because of the above considerations , and in part as a consequence of the French presidential election of 1965 in which de Gaulle , because he failed to win an absolute majority and was forced into a second run-off election against his nearest contender , suffered a not inconsiderable loss of prestige . |
| 4 | The effectiveness of the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was not addressed in this study , but was examined in a second study ( described later on in this chapter ) . |
| 5 | At the last presidential elections , held on Jan. 31-Feb. 1 , 1988 , Mauno Koivisto , the candidate supported primarily by the SSDP , failed to win the required absolute majority but was re-elected for a second term by the electoral college on Feb. 15 [ see pp. 35853-54 ] . |