Example sentences of "been elected [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been elected floor leader in 1986 , a post which in the Netherlands political system was comparable to that of party leader . |
| 2 | Toby Chauncy ( 1673–1733 ) , a cousin of Richard Chauncy and a former owner of the house , had been elected Member of Parliament for Banbury in 1730 [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 3 | Air Vice-Marshal D G Bailey has been elected Chairman to succeed Sir Charles . |
| 4 | Previously he had been elected chairman of the Falkland Islands Committee because his determination to keep the Falklands British was such a boost to the morale of the islanders . |
| 5 | Mrs Elizabeth Devlin has been elected chairman and Mrs Denise Drumm , vice-chairman . |
| 6 | Lee had recently been elected chairman of the Co-opted Resource Centre , a group set up by 21 conservative councillors within Legco following the election of liberal councillors from the United Democrats of Hong Kong in September [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 7 | As early as February Morrison had been elected chairman of the party 's Campaign Committee , which was a sub-committee of the National Executive . |
| 8 | ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’ |
| 9 | Chairman 's hat-trick : Coun Norman Lantsbery had been elected chairman of Loftus Town Council for the third year in succession . |
| 10 | Don Macro , of Brompton Walk , Darlington , has been elected chairman of the town 's Talking Newspaper for the Blind . |
| 11 | STUART Renton , MBE , DA , ARSA , FRIBA , FRIAS , has been elected chairman of the board of governors of Edinburgh College of Art , He succeeds Martin Huggins , chairman since January 1991 . |
| 12 | Later in 1257 Roger went out to Germany with Richard , where the latter had been elected king . |
| 13 | Bell , 18 , had been elected vice-captain of the Durham Junior Golfing Society and was in the team to play the Durham senior side at Chester-leStreet on April 19 . |
| 14 | He had been elected Treasurer of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and , as such , demonstrated the prime motive of his life — an unashamed love of money . |
| 15 | Louisville , USA : , technical services representative for Porter International , has been elected treasurer of the Ohio Chapter of the Steel Structures Painting Council ( SSPC ) . |
| 16 | In May 1989 Saibou had been elected head of the country 's new supreme ruling body , a half-military and half-civilian Conseil Superieure d'Orientation National ( CSON — Higher Council for National Orientation ) . |
| 17 | Professor Philip Swallow , Head of the English Department at Rummidge University , had been elected Dean of the Arts Faculty for a three-year term ; and since the duties of this office , added to his Departmental responsibilities , drastically reduced his contribution to undergraduate teaching , he was by tradition allowed to appoint a temporary lecturer , at the lower end of the salary scale , as what was quaintly termed ‘ Dean 's Relief ’ . |
| 18 | America 's top two golfers — they have won $2.5m between them on the US circuit this season — have been elected favourites for the 32-nation event , and they want to avenge their recent defeat in the Dunhill Cup , when Love , Couples and Tom Kite lost to England in the semi-finals . |
| 19 | America 's top two golfers have been elected favourites for the 32-nation event , and they are determined to avenge their recent defeat in the Dunhill Cup at St Andrews . |
| 20 | He had been elected FRS in 1840 and became FRCS in 1844 . |
| 21 | He took the decision soon after he had been elected Speaker in 1983 . |
| 22 | A former Justice Minister who had been elected Speaker only the previous January [ see p. 36943 ] , Ninn-Hansen had come under considerable criticism for a directive which he had issued in 1988 as Justice Minister to immigration authorities to give low priority to reuniting the families of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in Denmark . |
| 23 | In 1988 , after two unsuccessful attempts , Engholm had been elected Minister President of his home state of Schleswig-Holstein [ see pp. 36044-45 ; 35722-23 ] . |
| 24 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |
| 25 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 26 | Alain Gourd , Canada 's Deputy Minister of Communications , has been elected President of the International Institute of Communications , a UK-based organisation which undertakes communication research and policy analysis … |
| 27 | Since Walter Scheel had been elected President on 15 May , Schmidt 's foreign minister was the new FDP leader , Hans-Dietrich Genscher who became , by 1989 , the longest serving foreign minister in the Western world . |
| 28 | John by the way has recently been elected President of our Energy and Utilities section . |
| 29 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 30 | Under the arrangement a Spanish socialist , Enrique Barón Crespo , had been elected President in 1989 [ see p. 36818 ] . |