Example sentences of "[was/were] elect president [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr. Leonard Coote , the out-going Vice-President was elected President for a two-year term in succession to Mr. Andy Heffernan who had completed a two-year term . |
2 | In the presidential elections of January 1991 , Soares was elected President for a second five-year term [ see p. 37968 ] . |
3 | In late 1987 he was elected President for a seven-year term . |
4 | London was chosen as the administrative headquarters , and Jacques Attali , formerly a special adviser to President Mitterrand of France , was elected president for an initial four-year term at a meeting in Paris on May 19 . |
5 | He committed himself to helping the future of rugby when he was elected president of a relaunched Young England Club . |
6 | The NSF , which reorganized itself as a political party in January , won the elections by a landslide , while Iliescu was elected President by an overwhelming majority . |