Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] election in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported at the end of February 1990 that the then Minister of State for the Southern Province R. H. Sam Kpakra had suspended voter registration in preparation for the 1991 elections in the constituencies of Bo Town 1 , Bo West and Bo North , following claims that irregularities had taken place . |
| 2 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 3 | The move was widely seen as part of the Socialist Party 's strategy for the regional elections in March to counter the growing popularity of far-right views . |
| 4 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 5 | The answer must be prefaced by a reminder that the WGMS relies only partially on the use of party lists : it provides for the direct election in constituencies of half the MdBs . |
| 6 | In the campaign for the legislative elections in March 1967 , he spoke on behalf of the Gaullist party and orchestrated the government 's presentation of its record . |
| 7 | The Conservatives were returned to power for the fourth election in a row with 42 per cent or more of the popular vote . |
| 8 | If these figures held steady through the late polling hours , Mr Clinton would remain the Democrats ' nominee-presumptive for the presidential election in November with an overwhelming lead in convention delegates . |
| 9 | Mr Chirac seems to want to wait for the presidential election in 1995 . |
| 10 | Several of the older students with records of political activism , started campaigning for the local elections in September . |
| 11 | China 's fury was prompted by Mr Patten 's decision last Friday to go ahead and publish proposed legislation on his democracy proposals for the next elections in 1995 . |
| 12 | During the municipal elections in Rome [ see above ] , Marco Pannella , a prominent PRI deputy [ see p. 35989 ] , had stood as a candidate for the Anti-prohibitionist Party , which succeeded in securing only one seat . |
| 13 | ‘ The bit about the forthcoming election in Spain . |
| 14 | The idea was subsequently revived by Neil Kinnock after the 1987 election in modified form which allowed local union branches to retain a voice in the selection process . |
| 15 | UP TO 100 Labour MPs are expected to join a relaunched pro-CND Parliamentary group after the general election in a move that threatens to undermine Neil Kinnock 's remodelled defence policy . |
| 16 | Perhaps whoever becomes Secretary of State for Industry after the general election in four weeks time — what a mercifully short election period — should be called the Secretary of State for Industry and Technology . |
| 17 | In the Administration formed by John Major after the General Election in April 1992 , a solicitor , John Taylor , was appointed as the first Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 18 | The Conservative Party made net gains of 308 seats in local elections held on May 7 for over 3,800 seats on 207 local district councils in England , Scotland and Wales , only one month after the general election in which it was returned to power for a fourth term [ see pp. 38868-69 ] . |
| 19 | Keating had been appointed Deputy Prime Minister after the 1990 election in preparation for this transition . |
| 20 | After the presidential elections in 1965 , the situation partially reverted to that of 1959 – 62 . |
| 21 | US conservatives have begun arguing openly that if the Sandinista Government tries to remain in power after the scheduled election in February , the invasion of Panama could be used to justify a new wave of military intervention . |
| 22 | Nowhere was the Right-On bandwagon more apparent than in London , where it culminated in the elevation of Ken Livingstone to the leadership of the controlling Labour group on the Greater London Council the day after the local elections in March 1981 . |
| 23 | Approximately 1,100 respondents were interviewed in November 1985 and 750 reinterviewed just after the local elections in May 1986 . |
| 24 | Birch 's work on where jobs were being generated in the US economy stirred up considerable interest around the time of the 1979 election in Britain when Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative government first came to power . |
| 25 | It 's only natural for defeated parties to grab at such explanations , but there are some reasons for believing that the result of the general election in Scotland owed more to Conservative skill at exploiting the mechanics of registration and demography than to any ‘ principled ’ decision-making by voters . |
| 26 | The verdict of Londoners on whether London wants a Labour-led Greater London council reborn will be seen when we judge the results of the general election in the London constituencies . |
| 27 | It also suspended the Democratic Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) of Panama from membership for accepting the annulment of the general election in that country the previous month [ see p. 36645 ] . |
| 28 | Simultaneously with the holding of the general election in September 1989 , the country 's estimated 25,000 Lapps elected 39 representatives to a communal parliament . |
| 29 | In electoral terms the ILP remained much stronger than the Communist Party , as the results of the general election in October 1931 underlined . |
| 30 | Now , set against the fast pace of Hungary 's reforms and the excitement of the recent election in the Soviet Union , the agreements signed on April 5th between the Polish government and the Solidarity-led opposition seem almost commonplace in Eastern Europe . |