Example sentences of "been elected a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Having been elected a member of the executive committee in 1937 , he took Ayliffe 's place as editor of The Deaf Quarterly News in 1944 .
2 Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology .
3 He had recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the College of Physicians ; the future was open for furtherance .
4 He had been elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1793 .
5 Bromhead was active in communicating Green 's later memoirs to the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( of which Bromhead had been elected a fellow in 1823 ) .
6 Returning to Pembroke , of which he had been elected a fellow in 1899 , he became librarian and lecturer in Slavonic studies in 1901 .
7 MacLauchlan had been elected a fellow of the Geological Society in 1832 ( he read papers in 1833 and 1842 ) , and was acknowledged by W. D. Conybeare and G. B. Greenough [ qq.v. ] , both eminent geologists of the day .
8 Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association .
9 Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries .
10 She was an active trade unionist and had lately been elected a shop steward .
11 On 10 May 1794 , Huntingford wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons ( who had himself been elected a vice-president of the College ) as follows : ‘ Honble Sir , I should not have taken the liberty of troubling you on the subject of the Veterinary College did not the recent business of Wm Stone who stands charged with High Treason prove the cause of his exerting himself to my prejudice in favor of M Vial the late Professor , to be that he might establish a French Connection in that Institution in order that he might through the channel carry on his correspondence with the enemy .
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