Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] elect to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are elected to college committees , do not disdain what appears to be a minor representation . |
| 2 | and honorary degrees from Pennsylvania , Toulouse , and Poitiers ; and she was elected to fellowship of the British Academy in 1952 . |
| 3 | She was elected to Parliament at the general election in April . |
| 4 | She was elected to borough council in 1987 . |
| 5 | Does Labour pledge that , if it is elected to government , no one will wait any length of time for an operation ? |
| 6 | A vigorous campaigner against the joint French-British rule of the New Hebrides ( the pre-independence colonial name for Vanuatu ) , he was elected to territory 's national assembly in 1975 . |
| 7 | He was elected to parliament last December as head of the Independent Citizens ' Party , standing in the Serb-ruled ( but Albanian-populated ) province of Kosovo . |
| 8 | He was elected to Parliament as member for Aylesbury in 1880 . |
| 9 | He was elected to Parliament for Pontefract in 1774 ; he supported Lord North 's government on the American war , and was in favour of granting further relief to Protestant dissenters . |
| 10 | In 1972 , at the age of 23 , he was elected to parliament . |
| 11 | He was elected to parliament as MP for Orkney and Shetland in 1950 , and led the Liberal Party from 1956 till 1967 . |