Example sentences of "general [noun] held [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 , Rajiv was swiftly sworn in as her successor [ see p. 33220 ] and led Congress ( I ) to a massive victory in a general election held at the end of the year [ see pp. 33464-66 ] . |
| 2 | In the general election held in the Federal Republic of Germany in January 1987 , the Christian Democratic Union won 34.5% of the national political vote and 35.0% of the seats in the Bundestag . |
| 3 | At a general meeting held on the evening of 13 February , it was reported that there were 475 non-union journeymen at work in Edinburgh and that " additional hands were daily arriving " . |
| 4 | At a special general meeting held in the Princess Beach Hotel and Casino , Curacao , by Netherlands Antilles , on 22 October 1990 , Cohere duly did just that and the whole battle over the future of Velcro was put on ice . |
| 5 | The samples were obtained from controls , from electoral rolls in Strasbourg , Lille and Toulouse and from the lists of General Practitioners held by the Central Services Agency in Belfast . |
| 6 | The elections to the Convention were the least contentious of any of the general elections held under the later Stuarts : few of the contests which did occur were fought along party lines , and a number of constituencies returned one Whig and one Tory unopposed . |
| 7 | In the eleven general elections held in the Federal Republic they have successively numbered 2 , 3 , 3 , 5 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 , 2 and 1 — only 17 in all . |
| 8 | Three generalizations can be drawn about voting behaviour in the four general elections held in the period from 1950 to 1959 : |