Example sentences of "elected [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 2 | In October 1989 the PPF had elected the then Justice Minister Kalman Kulcsar as its chair . |
| 3 | But when the citizens of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers cast their stones into the pot last week and elected the managing director of Amalgamated Metal Trading on to their council with the biggest number of votes , they elevated the nearest that divided body has seen to a populist . |
| 4 | Mr. Walker 's draft bye-laws were referred to a Sub-Committee — which in the event was elected the following December at the first Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | Under Resolution 44/308 of Nov. 1 , the Assembly elected the following 18 states to the UN Economic and Social Council ( following the expiration of the term in office of one-third of the Council 's membership ) for a three-year term beginning on Jan. 1 , 1990 ( * — re-elected ) : Algeria , Bahrain , Bulgaria* , Burkina , Canada* , China* , Ecuador , Finland , German Democratic Republic , Iran* , Jamaica , Mexico , Pakistan , Rwanda* , Soviet Union* , Sweden , United Kingdom* , Zaïre* . |
| 6 | Under Resolution 44/309 of Nov. 1 , the Assembly elected the following 29 states to the 58-member Governing Council of the UN Environment Programme for a four-year term beginning on Jan. 1 , 1990 ( * — re-elected ) : Argentina* , Austria , Barbados* , Brazil* , Burundi* , China* , France* , Gabon* , Gambia , German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) , Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) * , Indonesia* , Japan* , Kuwait , Lesotho* , Mauritius* , New Zealand , Norway , Peru , Philippines , Spain , Thailand , Tunisia , Soviet Union* , United States* , Venezuela* , Yugoslavia* , Zaïre* , Zimbabwe . |
| 7 | In accordance with his wish to democratize the independence movement , on May 15 the Tibetan People 's Deputies ( a parliament-in-exile ) for the first time elected the three-member Cabinet hitherto appointed by the Dalai Lama . |
| 8 | Under the prevailing laws only some 20,000 traditional chiefs ( Matai ) were allowed to vote in elections to 45 seats in the Fono , while voters of European blood who were not members of a Matai family elected the remaining two seats . |
| 9 | John Dellow , deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , has been elected the new president of the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
| 10 | then Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Hotels and Caterers association ( now consultant ) was elected the new HCIMA President 1991–92 . |
| 11 | The association was resuscitated in 1976 , after a lapse of 10 years , by Professor Richard Penny , Ruth Layton being elected the first ‘ new ’ president . |
| 12 | But under the revised membership clause of the constitution the Rev W. B. Sleight , who was not a missioner , was eligible for this honour and it was he , who , " in accordance with the general feeling " , was elected the first President of the BDDA . |
| 13 | John Young was elected the first honorary Director , and the BDA agreed to provide the administration for the time being . |
| 14 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 15 | Kinloch stood as the Whig candidate in the election that followed , and in December of that year was elected the first MP for the borough . |
| 16 | He took a leading part in the formation of the Institute of Marine Engineers and was elected the first president in 1889 . |
| 17 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 18 | In Kirghizia on April 10 and Tadjikistan on April 12 the newly elected republican Supreme Soviets elected the first secretaries of their republican Communist Parties ( CP ) , respectively Absamat Masaliyev and Kakhar Makhkamov , to the post of Chairman ( i.e. President of the republic ) . |
| 19 | Dr. Johnson then completed a hat-trick of honours by being elected the first holder of Oxford 's David Phillips chair in Molecular Biophysics . |
| 20 | SIMON McKie , a director of Rathbone Brothers , the quoted banking and investment group , has been elected the first Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 21 | The Wensleydale-born man was elected the first president of the Society by those gathered in the watchmaker 's shop in 1835 and held that post until his death in 1858 . |
| 22 | Delegates elected the two current deputy chairman , Lech Kaczynski and Stefan Jurczak , as temporary co-chairmen pending the election of a new leader at a special congress . |
| 23 | Civic Forum , the movement which had emerged to lead the November 1989 revolution in the Czech lands and which with its Slovak sister organization Public Against Violence had won the June 1990 general election [ see p. 37542-43 ] , elected the Federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus as its first chair at a delegates ' meeting in Prague on Oct. 13 . |
| 24 | Li Yuan-tzu was elected the next day as Vice-President with 93 per cent of the votes , receiving 602 out of 644 cast . |
| 25 | In addition to electing the 212 members of the Chamber of Representatives ( lower house of parliament ) , voters also elected the 106 directly elected members of the 184-member Senate ( upper house ) . |
| 26 | Initially a member of the Christian Democratic Party and elected the youngest Congressional deputy in 1974 at the age of 26 , Marianella resigned from the party in September 1979 on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were not serious about the denunciation and investigation of human rights violations . |
| 27 | This covers the whole of the costs up to May 16th , 1908 ( the official Opening ) and when the officers elected the previous December , formally took over the working of the club and course . |
| 28 | In December 1984 a Constituent Assembly ( elected the previous July in preparation for a return to civilian government ) drafted a new constitution based on that of 1965 ; this was approved in May 1985 and came into effect in January 1986 . |
| 29 | ‘ The Spanish have elected the Popular Front to government . |
| 30 | Sabine Sheehan ( 21 ) was elected the German ‘ Rose of Tralee ’ last month in a competition of which Guinness was the chief sponsor . |