Example sentences of "[noun pl] voted for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | At an emergency congressional session on Oct. 18 pro-government deputies voted for the dismissal of the right-wing opposition Congress president ( Speaker ) , Averroes Bucaram Ortiz , and his replacement by Edelberto Bonilla Oleas . |
2 | In June , two million West Germans voted for the party in the European Parliament elections , sending Schönhuber and five colleagues to Strassburg . |
3 | Despite the Italian economic crisis , Giuliano Amato promised 19 December at an interministerial meeting that not a lira would be cut from the special funds voted for the protection of Venice and that the money would become available immediately , none having been provided during 1992 ( The Art Newspaper No. 23 Dec 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
4 | All major opposition parties voted for the bills , whose adoption marked the first time since 1945 that an opposition bill had been passed in the Upper House . |
5 | From 1334 to 1343 the clergy voted for no fewer than eight tenths , or from the combined provinces — and at a conservative estimate — roughly £140,000 ; in the next decade almost as much , seven tenths or some £124,000 were conceded ; during the second half of the 1350s only two tenths were granted , £35,000 ; the peace of Brétigny brought a respite from royal taxation until 1370 , after which until the end of the reign £100,000 was raised by traditional subsidies , £50,000 was sought as a special grant in 1371 ( though little of this was effectively collected ) and a graduated poll tax was imposed in 1377 . |
6 | At the Suffolk elections of 1705 and 1710 , 80 per cent of the clergy voted for the two Tory candidates . |
7 | Scargill hoped for a ‘ domino effect ’ , to be promoted if necessary by the type of mass picketing which had been perfected a decade earlier , and the National Executive supported him ; only three members voted for a proposal that the demand for a national strike be put to a national ballot . |
8 | THE Danes voted for the same treaty yesterday that they rejected last June because they were misled by the media and politicians , claimed an East Anglian Tory Euro-rebel . |
9 | Gallup Poll data showed that in these four elections , 79% or more of upper-middle-class voters and 69% or more of middle-class voters cast their votes for the Conservative party , while more than 50% of working-class and very poor voters voted for the Labour party . |
10 | Almost all Protestants voted for the Unionist Party and Catholics either voted for nationalists or abstained . |
11 | In 1978 , over one-third of Conservative MPs voted for a form of proportional representation for the proposed Welsh Assembly . |
12 | Most Labour MPs voted for the motion , most Liberal Democrats , including Mr Paddy Ashdown , voted against — as did Dr David Owen . |
13 | A large majority of North-East Labour MPs voted for the Bill , and most of the region 's Tories against it . |