Example sentences of "[was/were] elect [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the Assembly 's members 500 are from the legislative House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat , to which 400 were elected for a five-year term by direct universal adult suffrage in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] ; the remaining 100 were appointed by the President . |
| 2 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
| 3 | The President was elected by simple majority , while members of the National Assembly were elected on a regional proportional basis , each party or alliance presenting a list of candidates in each of the nine regions and the number of deputies elected depending on the population of the region ( for example 25 for Managua , five for the Atlantic coast region ) . |
| 4 | The new ministers were elected by an open ballot en bloc . |
| 5 | On Jan. 13 Mário Soares , 66 , was elected for a second five-year term as President . |
| 6 | A general election was held in August 1991 [ see p. 38397 ] ; Wee Kim Wee was elected for a second four-year term in August 1989 [ see p. 37574 ] . |
| 7 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Assembly , comprising legislators from 16 member countries , elected Loïc Bouvard of France as president on Nov. 19 ; Bouvard , 63 , the first Frenchman to hold the post in 33 years , was elected for a two-year term to succeed Charles Rose , a member of the US Congress . |
| 8 | The People 's Assembly , the unicameral legislative body , was elected for a five-year term by direct popular vote . |
| 9 | The President was elected for a five-year term , limited to two consecutive terms . |
| 10 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 11 | After the King 's speech , Abd Al-Latif Arabiyat of the Moslem Brotherhood was elected for a third consecutive term as Speaker of the House of Representatives , the Assembly 's lower chamber . |
| 12 | Chadli was elected for a further term as chairman of the FLN . |
| 13 | Ruslan Khasbulatov , Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , was elected for a one-year term as Chairman of the Assembly , whose seat would be St Petersburg ( Russia ) . |
| 14 | Fujimori was elected on a second round of voting in June 1990 [ see p. 37528 ] . |
| 15 | At a congress of the Alliance of Free Democrats ( SzDSz ) on Oct. 27-29 , 1989 , a new 30-member council was elected with a 15-member managing board . |
| 16 | In 1979 the Conservative Government was elected with a clear mandate to tackle the problem of excessive Union powers which was destroying the employment and the livelihood of thousands of people every week . |
| 17 | A year later , in 1979 , a Conservative government was elected with an unswerving commitment to nuclear power . |
| 18 | Former Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche was elected to a new 15-member politburo announced by the FLN on Aug. 8 . |
| 19 | In this election , Senghor himself was elected to a third seven-year term as president . |
| 20 | He was a foundation scholar at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , and was elected to a classical exhibition at New College , Oxford , in 1896 . |
| 21 | She was elected to an honorary fellowship of Girton College in 1913 . |
| 22 | Although he ‘ sought to avoid public controversy ’ — a standard Victorian prefix to anyone who enthusiastically engaged in political warfare — he was elected as a Poor Law Guardian and a member of the Burial Board and the Public Library Committee . |
| 23 | In 1912 she was elected as a Labour councillor in the London borough of Kensington , where she pressed for public provision of baby clinics , school meals , improved council housing , employment schemes , and prohibition of sweated labour . |
| 24 | Kaysone 's wife , Thongvinh Phomvihane , was removed from the central committee , but his son , Saysomphone Phomvihane , was elected as a new member . |
| 25 | In November India 1990 was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 1991 . |
| 26 | Sir Godfrey Webster , the fifth baronet , was elected as a Tory member for the county in 1812 ; almost immediately he voted against the government whose friends had put him in and became increasingly radical in his demands for electoral reform and the abolition of political sinecures for the supporters of ministers . |
| 27 | This seat , which had been held by John Wheatley was an ILP stronghold and McGovern was elected as an unendorsed candidate . |
| 28 | President Vassiliou was elected as an independent , and his administration is nominally a non-party one . |
| 29 | The Pakistan People 's Party leader wants the removal of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who she says was elected in a rigged vote . |
| 30 | Landsbergis , 58 , a musicologist specializing in 19th and early 20th century Lithuanian music , was elected in a secret ballot , polling 91 votes for and 42 votes against , compared with 38 votes for and 95 against Brazauskas . |