Example sentences of "[was/were] elected [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presidential and mayoral elections : on May 26 , 1991 , Gamsakhurdia was elected President of Georgia with a majority of 86.5 per cent [ see p. 38206 ] ; on June 16 Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Federation [ see p. 38237 ] , and Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak were elected mayors of Moscow and Leningrad respectively with comfortable majorities . |
| 2 | From 1880–1969 four Willses and one of their adopted sons were elected Members of Parliament : one Liberal Home Ruler , two Unionists and two Conservatives . |
| 3 | Joan Kirner became the second woman to lead an Australian state government when she was elected Premier of Victoria , on Aug. 9 , by the state 's ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) . |
| 4 | When he was elected Governor-General of Canada , Georges Vanier felt deeply inadequate for the heavy duties he had to face . |
| 5 | Pelham was elected chamberlain of Hull 30 September 1630 and sheriff of Hull in 1636 , becoming alderman in 1641 . |
| 6 | He acquired a considerable fortune and was noted for his philanthropy ; he was elected Member of Parliament for Bedford Town in 1768 . |
| 7 | In 1883 he was elected bailiff of Dursley and in 1893 was appointed a JP . |
| 8 | She was elected Chairman of Kent Teachers in 1982 and is currently Treasurer , she also coaches the Kent Display Team . |
| 9 | He was elected chairman of backbench smaller businesses committee , and was appointed as delegate to NATO , specialising in human rights . |
| 10 | Partido Justicialista ( Justicialist Party , the official name for the Peronists , of which Menem was elected chairman in August 1990 [ see p. 37651 ] ; Eduardo Menem vice-ch . ) . |
| 11 | Beigbeder was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke in 1979 and Thomas Neff , then manager of the New York office , became Chief Executive . |
| 12 | A new election was ordered and Bruno , provost of Bonn , a faithful adherent of Otto ( who had , indeed , brought notice of Otto 's election to Rome ) was elected archbishop of Cologne and his election confirmed by the pope on 22 December 1205 . |
| 13 | Bede records that when Beorhtwald , abbot of Reculver , was elected archbishop of Canterbury on 1 July 692 , Wihtred and Swaefheard were ruling in Kent ( HE V , 8 ) . |
| 14 | He was elected archbishop of York on Christmas day 1060 , and gave up the see of Hereford , while intending to hold York and Worcester together , like some earlier archbishops . |
| 15 | In late 1797 he was elected adjutant-general for county Antrim and preparations began for a rebellion . |
| 16 | Chadwick received the Nobel prize for his discovery , and was elected Master of Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge ( the college of which I am now a fellow ) . |
| 17 | He was elected king at Cologne on 9 June 1198 . |
| 18 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 19 | In 1457 , however , Ladislas died and Matthias was elected king of Hungary ( 1458 ) . |
| 20 | Le Van Triet , 61 , hitherto Deputy Minister of Trade and a former deputy party chief of Ho Chi Minh City , was elected Minister of Commerce in place of Hoang Minh Thang . |
| 21 | He became sheriff of the City of London in 1765–6 , and was elected alderman of Cornhill ward in 1767 . |
| 22 | In the aftermath of this triumph , in May 1963 , Sukarno was elected President For Life by the People 's Consultative Congress which had replaced parliament . |
| 23 | The incumbent , Mircea Snegur , was elected President of Moldova in popular elections on Dec. 8 . |
| 24 | Salmin Amour was elected President of Zanzibar as the sole candidate following the decision in August of Idris Abdul Wakil ( President since 1985 — see pp. 34149-50 ) not to stand again . |
| 25 | General Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France , in 1958 , a position he held for eleven years . |
| 26 | Who was the Socialist candidate when Valery Giscard D'Estaing was elected President of France in 1974 ? |
| 27 | Presidential and mayoral elections : on May 26 , 1991 , Gamsakhurdia was elected President of Georgia with a majority of 86.5 per cent [ see p. 38206 ] ; on June 16 Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Federation [ see p. 38237 ] , and Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak were elected mayors of Moscow and Leningrad respectively with comfortable majorities . |
| 28 | Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia ( RFSFR ) on June 12 , defeating five other candidates , including the former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , to win a comfortable victory on the first ballot . |
| 29 | June 16 : Yeltsin was elected President of Russia with 57.3 per cent of the vote . |
| 30 | Dafne Sabanés de Plou , Editor of El Estandarte Evangélico ( The Protestant Standard ) of Buenos Aires , Argentina , was elected President of WACC 's Latin America/Caribbean Regional Association during the Association 's Regional Assembly in Santiago , Chile , 4–8 October . |