Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for the post " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rabuka , 43 , had been challenged for the post of Prime Minister by Josefata Kamikamica , who was Finance Minister in the outgoing government of interim Prime Minister Ratu Kamisese Mara . |
| 2 | IBM noted that Zschau had been tapped for the post before Louis Gerstner came aboard as its new chairman , and said that there were no plans to offer AdStar shares to the public . |
| 3 | A negative external financing limit of £66 million has been set for the Post Office for the year 1992-93 . |
| 4 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 5 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 6 | The protracted search for a new chairman for the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) — the party 's leading position — ended on Jan. 7 when the presidential press secretary , Marlin Fitzwater , announced that Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter had been chosen for the post by President George Bush . |