Example sentences of "[prep] the first round [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the period between the first round of voting on Dec. 26 and the Jan. 12 cancellation of the second round , the secular parties warned that the FIS , with its project for an " Islamic state " , represented a threat to the successful installation of a multiparty system in Algeria . |
| 2 | Ballot results in 32 out of 120 constituencies were annulled after the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sept. 16 ; the second round , scheduled for Sept. 23 , was suspended after the government acknowledged that there had been irregularities at a number of voting centres . |
| 3 | The Speaker of the national Assembly , Hussein al-Husseini , resigned after the first round of voting on Aug. 23 . |
| 4 | ‘ I am sad , ’ Michel Rocard , former prime minister and Socialist presidential candidate , said as he surveyed the scene of devastation after the first round of voting in the general election on Sunday night . |
| 5 | Veteran Japanese player , Isao Aoki , originally penalised two strokes after the first round for grounding his club in a bunker , disqualified himself from the tournament before the second round . |
| 6 | The changes provided for a second poll to be held within 14 days of the first round of voting in the Federal Assembly if no candidate won at least 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 7 | There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system . |
| 8 | The centre-right populist Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF or MDF ) emerged as the strongest single party in the first round of voting on March 25 of elections to the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) . |
| 9 | In the first round of voting on April 8 Kucan took 44.5 per cent of the vote , compared with 26.2 per cent for DEMOS leader Joze Pucnik ( of the Democratic Alliance ) , 18.9 per cent for Ivan Kramberger ( independent ) , and 10.5 per cent for Marko Demsar ( ZSMZ — Liberal Party ) . |
| 10 | Occhetto , leader of the PCI since 1988 , narrowly failed to secure the necessary 274 votes for election as secretary of the PDS in the first round of voting by the new party 's national council on Feb. 4 , mainly due to the absence of 132 members . |
| 11 | The cancellation served to block the probable overall electoral victory of the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , which had emerged as winner in the first round of voting on Dec. 26 . |
| 12 | In the first round of voting on Jan. 12 Zhelev , backed by the ruling Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) of which he was a former chairman , had unexpectedly failed to win the necessary overall majority , but obtained 45 per cent as against 30 per cent for Valkanov and 17 per cent for the third-placed Georgi Ganchev , a former fencing champion who stood as an independent , in a field of 22 candidates . |
| 13 | In the first round of voting on Feb. 9 ( which saw a turnout of 64.91 per cent ) , 1,340 mayoral posts out of 2,951 were won outright ( for which over 50 per cent of votes cast in each constituency was necessary ) . |
| 14 | Although polls had anticipated a share of as much as 19 per cent of the vote the two ecologist parties ' actual share was only 7.63 per cent in the first round of voting on March 21 . |