Example sentences of "was elected [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was elected A.R.A. in 1939 . |
| 2 | Kalpokas , widely regarded as one of the country 's more able leaders , retained , however , his position as secretary-general of the VP and at a party congress was elected VP president in place of Lini on Aug. 7 . |
| 3 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 4 | He was elected FSA in 1916 . |
| 5 | Petre was elected FSA and FRS in 1780 , and was also a leading Freemason and grand master of the English Freemasons 1772–6 ( the last Catholic to hold that office ) . |
| 6 | In 1623 his friend in Florence , Maffeo Barberini , was elected Pope and Galileo could not wait to get to Rome to see him , and the reception was cordial . |
| 7 | Teatao Teannaki , the outgoing Vice-President of Kiribati , was elected Beretitenti ( President ) on July 3 after winning 46.3 per cent of the votes cast . |
| 8 | EZER Weizman ( above ) , a former fighter pilot with a sharp tongue and a passion for peace with the Arabs , was elected Israel 's seventh president yesterday . |
| 9 | Gabor Demszky of FIDESz was elected Budapest 's mayor on Oct. 31 . |
| 10 | In 1877 he was elected FRCP . |
| 11 | In 1953 he was elected FRCP , in 1961 became a personal reader in neurology , and in 1964 a personal professor . |
| 12 | Joint editor of the Journal of Mental Science from 1863 to 1878 , he was appointed physician to the West London Hospital in 1864 , lecturer on insanity at St Mary 's Hospital ( 1868–81 ) , professor of medical jurisprudence at University College London ( 1869–79 ) , and was elected FRCP in 1869 . |
| 13 | In 1944 he was elected FRCP . |
| 14 | In 1951 he was elected ARA and in 1959 RA . |
| 15 | In April 1990 Janos Kis was elected SzDSz chair . |
| 16 | Stepan Topal was elected Gagauzia 's President . |
| 17 | During these years he was elected FRIBA ( 1850 ) , freeman of the City of London ( 1851 ) , member of the Company of Fishmongers ( 1852 ) , and associate of the Society of Civil Engineers ( 1858 ) . |
| 18 | Gombojavyn Ochirbat , 61 , chairman of the Trades Union Council from 1972 to 1982 ( when he offended the wife of the then Mongolian leader Tsedenbal ) , and currently Mongolian representative on the editorial board of the World Marxist Review in Prague , was elected MPRP general secretary , and Nyamyn Mishigdorj and Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosren became members of the secretariat . |