Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj] election " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief among the reforms was a provision for the direct election of Assembly delegates . |
| 2 | The Vooruitstrevende Hervormings Partij ( VHP — Progressive Reform Party , Jaggernath Lachmon l. ) ; the Kerukanan Tulodo Pranatan Ingil ( KTPI — Party for Unity and Harmony , Willy Soemita l. ) ; ( the NPS , VHP , and KTPI formed an opposition coalition for the 1987 election named the New Front for Democracy and Development ) ; the Surinam Labour Party ( SPA , Fred Darby l. ) . the Alternative Front ( Gerard Brunings l . ) ; |
| 3 | So promised the Tory manifesto for the 1992 election . |
| 4 | The Boundary Commission should be set to work immediately and told to report in time for new constituencies to be in place for the next election — to bring fair representation across the United Kingdom , ensuring that a vote in Scotland is no longer worth more than one in England , or a vote in one constituency worth more than one in another . |
| 5 | The franchise for the 1929 election nearly doubled the number of women voters ; Labour again captured four seats with hugely increased majorities . |
| 6 | Amazing as it must seem to non-Americans , skirmishing for the Republican presidential nomination for the 1996 election has already broken out . |
| 7 | Toward the end of the year , we were given a holiday on a Thursday because the school was being used as a polling station for the General Election . |
| 8 | He was speaking on the eve of a meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat with 30 political advisers to formulate a strategy for the 1992 election campaign . |
| 9 | From eighty six to eighty nine he was planning spokesperson for Portsmouth City Council and in nineteen eighty nine he was a candidate for the Euro election fo for and East Hants , coming second with fifty one thousand votes . |
| 10 | In the same ballot , voters were given the unprecedented opportunity to choose the PL candidate for the presidential election scheduled for May 27 , 1990 . |
| 11 | Opinion surveys suggested that he would enter the election as the clear favourite against Harris Wofford , the Democrat who had been appointed by the state governor to fill the vacancy temporarily and who had been selected by the Democrats as their candidate for the forthcoming election . |
| 12 | The proposal on the European parliament sensibly recommends cons consistency of voting for the one election that we share with other members of the European community . |
| 13 | The Cabinet reshuffle on Sept. 16 — the first since January 1989 — was widely seen as paving the way for the next election , expected to be held ahead of the constitutional deadline of June 1992 . |
| 14 | Introduce fixed-term Parliament of four years , with a known date for the next election , subject to an earlier election only if the government loses a special ‘ explicit ’ vote of no confidence . |
| 15 | The Congress subsequently agreed to grant Yeltsin emergency powers to deal with the crisis situation in the republic and set the date for the direct election of a President of Russia [ see pp. 38130-31 ] . |
| 16 | After all , the Literary Digest Poll for the 1932 election came within a tiny margin of the actual result . |
| 17 | One impatient customer , David Pollard , has taken things into his own hands and is rushing out his own edition in time for the general election . |
| 18 | The time for the general election was approaching . |
| 19 | Worse than that from the Government 's point of view , I do not think that he will arrive in time for the general election . |
| 20 | If this were ever done , then unless some other constituency took him on board in time for the general election , or perhaps unless he stood and won in his constituency as some kind of independent Labour candidate with at least PLP support , then , on the declaration of the result in his constituency , he would lose any right to remain Prime Minister . |
| 21 | The right politician must be put in charge of the Treasury to bring the economy back to even keel , reduce the trade deficit and force both inflation and interest rates down in time for the next election . |
| 22 | That necessary ditching , in all likelihood , will now be done in time for the next election . |
| 23 | Finer , in his study of The Changing Party System , is not alone in taking the view that it is a " matter of proven fact that governments try to manipulate the economy to improve material conditions in time for the next election " . |
| 24 | The Conservatives were returned to power for the fourth election in a row with 42 per cent or more of the popular vote . |