Example sentences of "voted [prep] a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular significance was the moment when , in February 1982 , Cornwall County Council voted by a large majority against agreeing to any nuclear development . |
| 2 | It will probably be passed alto to a small committee of the European Parliament , but the Parliament has already voted by a large majority in favour of a ban and a further reference may be deemed unnecessary . |
| 3 | Delegates voted by a large majority for the immediate introduction of a multiparty system , emphatically rejecting a proposal by Bongo that democratic pluralism be introduced over a three- to five-year period ; delegates also rejected Bongo 's proposal for a new single party , the Gabonese Social Democratic Rally ( RSDG ) [ ibid. ] , encompassing various political groupings , which was to have replaced the Gabonese Democratic Party ( PDG ) , the sole legal party since 1968 . |
| 4 | On June 30 , however , the delegates voted by a large majority against creating any new national structures of the type favoured by the government : 89 voted in favour of the status quo , compared with 11 in favour of appointing the proposed national body and 10 in favour of a compromise suggestion that Solidarity should develop a " formula of co-operation " with the government which did not entail setting up permanent structures . |
| 5 | The European Parliament voted by a large majority in January 1990 to freeze scientific co-operation between EC countries and Israel until universities on the West Bank , which had been closed since the beginning of the uprising , were reopened . |
| 6 | Rafael Eitan resigned as Minister of Agriculture on Dec. 24 in protest at Likud 's opposition to proposals for the direct election of the Prime Minister ; the Likud central committee had voted by a large majority on Dec. 23 against the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 7 | The Tweede Kamer , the lower house of the Netherlands parliament , voted by a large majority on Jan. 31 to instruct the government to reopen negotiations . |