Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [num ord] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence began the campaign to enable the President to stand for a second term of office . |
| 2 | During November the three largest parties announced their candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for April 26 , 1992 , to elect a successor to Kurt Waldheim , who had in June 1991 declined to stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 3 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |
| 4 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 5 | Haygarth Jackson was reappointed for a second term as chairman of Publications and Information Board . |
| 6 | By 1987 , the SDLP was making no secret of its desire to see Thatcher re-elected for a third term . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Parliament elects a President for a four-year term ( the current President , Wee Kim Wee , having been re-elected for a second term in August 1989 — see below ) who appoints a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and responsible to Parliament . |
| 9 | Diouf was re-elected for a second term at the same time . |
| 10 | President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 . |
| 11 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 12 | Opposition leaders stated their concern that the PRI would push through an amendment to allow Salinas to run for a second term as president in 1994 . |
| 13 | Another leading Democrat widely perceived as a contender for the party 's next presidential nomination , Governor Mario Cuomo of New York , had announced his intention on June 4 to run for a third term and was automatically nominated as his party 's choice . |
| 14 | Theoretically his presidency must end in 1852 , but it was already evident that the Prince hoped for a second term of office , to which end he began to organize a campaign to drum up sufficient popular support for this to become possible . |
| 15 | With Aquino adamant that she would not stand for a second term , the jostling for position amongst those ambitious to succeed her intensified in late 1990 and early 1991 . |
| 16 | Waldheim , who had been barred from entering the USA [ see p. 35528 ] and shunned by European governments , had announced in June 1991 that he would not stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 17 | Suharto 's pronouncements , although clouded in typical ambiguity , certainly gave the impression that he would stand for a sixth term . |
| 18 | A recent poll by El Pais predicts the Socialists will be swept into a third term of office on 29 October by an absolute majority . |
| 19 | On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 . |
| 20 | Sessions of the Supreme Soviet and of its standing commissions were dominated by these important figures , a domination reinforced by the fact that the more humble deputies were not usually elected for a second term . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
| 23 | Since a Conservative government has been elected for a fourth term these developments will probably continue . |
| 24 | Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima , who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki . |
| 25 | In 1940 Roosevelt broke with tradition and stood for a third term of office . |
| 26 | In 1987 the Conservative Party was returned for a third term . |
| 27 | The Dominica Freedom Party ( DFP ) , which came to power in 1980 , was narrowly returned for a third term in May 1990 , winning 11 seats . |
| 28 | The DFP was narrowly returned for a third term in May 1990 , winning 11 of the elective seats [ see pp. 37448 ; 37527 ] . |
| 29 | Geaga stood unsuccessfully on June 8 against the incumbent leader of the Phalangist Party ( also called the Ktaeb ) , George Saadeh , who was returned for a third term as party president . |
| 30 | If by some mischance the Government are returned for a fourth term , I should be surprised if child benefit survives to the end of their term . |