Example sentences of "[was/were] re-elected for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term .
2 Ben Gill was re-elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice-president .
3 At the last presidential elections , held on Jan. 31-Feb. 1 , 1988 , Mauno Koivisto , the candidate supported primarily by the SSDP , failed to win the required absolute majority but was re-elected for a second term by the electoral college on Feb. 15 [ see pp. 35853-54 ] .
4 Diouf was re-elected for a second term at the same time .
5 President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 .
6 In elections held on March 28-30 , President Robert Mugabe was re-elected for a further term , and his ruling ZANU-PF party won 116 of the 120 elective seats in a restructured 150-member House of Assembly .
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