Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the first round " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 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 | In voting for councillors , 38,946 were elected on the first round out of the total of 40,178 , with the NSF winning 15,670 seats ( 40.24 per cent ) , the Democratic Convention 8,088 ( 20.77 per cent ) , the ADP 4,532 ( 11.64 per cent ) , the HDUR 2,606 ( 6.69 per cent ) , independents 2,425 ( 6.23 per cent ) , and the RNUP 1,508 ( 3.87 per cent ) . |
| 4 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 5 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 6 | Natalia Zvereva was defeated in the first round for the seventh time this year when the American Marianne Werdel beat the eighth seed from the Soviet Union 6-2 , 6-3 in the Chicago tournament . |
| 7 | The only candidate who totally rejected the proposals , the right-wing businessman Paschal Paschalides , was defeated in the first round , which Mr Vassiliou won with 44.15 per cent of the vote . |
| 8 | He was eliminated in the first round , coming fourth behind de Gaulle , Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet . |
| 9 | The Gaullist candidate , Chaban-Delmas , was beaten in the first round : thus ended the period ( 1958–74 ) when Gaullists alone had controlled the apparatus of state broadcasting . |