Example sentences of "have voted for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am now shown correctly in Hansard as having voted for the Government in Division 15 . |
| 2 | Personally , I would have voted for the lads at Cain 's Brewery but Twitters may have got the jitters if the revamped Higson 's had made the headlines . |
| 3 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |
| 4 | He acknowledged that the delay in his party 's response was due to internal disagreements ; the party executive was believed to have voted for a boycott of the referendum , but was reportedly overruled by a parliamentary caucus meeting . |
| 5 | A record company spokesman said : ‘ The American public had voted for a younger Elvis to grace their postage stamps and we took the hint . ’ |
| 6 | Well over a hundred of Oxfordshire 's lowest paid and angriest health workers attended a mass meeting to hear that almost all the region 's clerical staff had voted for a one day strike . |
| 7 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 8 | Of these , 1,876,957 ( 89.21 per cent ) had voted for the charter and 213,817 ( 10.16 per cent ) against . |
| 9 | This followed a referendum in January , held without Supreme Soviet approval , in which a large majority of the Crimea 's predominantly Russian population had voted for the restoration of the Crimean ASSR outside the Ukraine . |
| 10 | People in the city had voted for the metro but others in LA county had effectively vetoed the project . |
| 11 | Like their colleagues in further education , the 17,000 lecturers in the sector have voted for a marking and exam boycott . |
| 12 | If one subtracts the vote of this vulnerable group from the remaining 76 per cent , this means that they have to live with the knowledge that more than one in four of voting co-residents have voted for a party that is rabidly hostile to them . |
| 13 | ‘ Members have voted for a change of leader . |
| 14 | But if voters have voted for a successful candidate why should some of them — just which , we shall examine later — be given the opportunity to vote for another candidate ? |
| 15 | The ballot will be secret and neither the names of those who have voted for a particular candidate nor the names of those who have abstained from voting shall be disclosed by the scrutineers . |
| 16 | Rail workers have voted for a twenty-four hour strike over job losses . |
| 17 | Instead they have voted for a man who promised change , who believed in change and who recognised that change had to come . |
| 18 | British Rail maintenance staff have voted for a series of twenty-four hour strikes , starting next week . |
| 19 | And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate , why should they be permitted to switch their preference ? |