Example sentences of "elected [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1906 he became university lecturer in palaeography , in 1920 he received a Cambridge Litt.D. , in 1925 he served as Sandars reader in bibliography , and in 1927 he was elected as the first full-time Disney professor of archaeology . |
| 2 | On 21 December , de Gaulle was elected as the first President of the Fifth Republic , with 78.5 per cent of the votes cast by an electoral college of 80,000 " notables " . |
| 3 | Aims were defined , certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term . |
| 4 | In December 1790 the Quaker committee , which maintained its existence alongside the London body , prompted Friends in the country to lobby their local MPs , particularly those elected for the first time in 1790 . |
| 5 | It quickly emerged that a good deal of potential support was coming from those Conservative Members who had been elected for the first time . |
| 6 | The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 . |
| 7 | These had been directly elected for the first time in 1986 [ see p. 34305 ] . |
| 8 | Indeed , it was largely because of this stance of old-fashioned industrial unionism that he had been elected in the first place . |
| 9 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 10 | Communist Party members accounted for 348 of the 368 deputies elected in the first round to the new 500-member Uzbek Supreme Soviet . |
| 11 | Hachani had already rejected this proposal at a news conference on Jan. 19 , in which he had read out resolutions signed by the 188 FIS deputies elected in the first round and had appealed to parliamentarians and international public opinion to " denounce the halt to the electoral process " . |
| 12 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 13 | I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman er of course these buildings are all related to the orders were discussing in order that M E Ps can be elected in the first place and is it not interesting to note that if agreement ca n't be reached as indeed is the position of the moment er in u what is called the European union over where actually the parliament is going to sit . |
| 14 | He was elected to the first Protectorate Parliament in 1654 for King 's Lynn , and again to the second in 1656 , this time on a double return which was rejected . |
| 15 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 16 | For Mr Poher this long-drawn out struggle was something new — on the seven previous occasions he had been elected on the first ballot . |
| 17 | In voting for councillors , 38,946 were elected on the first round out of the total of 40,178 , with the NSF winning 15,670 seats ( 40.24 per cent ) , the Democratic Convention 8,088 ( 20.77 per cent ) , the ADP 4,532 ( 11.64 per cent ) , the HDUR 2,606 ( 6.69 per cent ) , independents 2,425 ( 6.23 per cent ) , and the RNUP 1,508 ( 3.87 per cent ) . |
| 18 | With the Second Ballot the winning candidate must poll more than half the votes to be elected at the first ballot . |
| 19 | He was elected at the first count , Ruari Quinn at the fifteenth . |
| 20 | ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 21 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 22 | The moderate socialists still controlled the CEC elected by the first All-Russian Congress of Soviets in June , but acceded to demands that they summon a Second Congress which , following a series of regional soviet congresses , eventually met on 25 October . |