Example sentences of "he [was/were] elect to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1984 he was elected to the very distinguished position of member of the Academie Francaise , bastion of French culture . |
| 2 | Last month , he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Disney company — no Mickey Mouse operation , with US$6 billion in assets , and investors in New York , London , Brussels and Paris . |
| 3 | In 1988 he was elected to the National Assembly on behalf of the main opposition party at that time , the Party for Peace and Democracy , and in August of that year he made an unauthorized visit to North Korea where he reportedly met the North Korean President Kim Il-sing and other officials . |
| 4 | Revd Charles Jenkinson , a Christian Socialist , was appointed to a slum parish in the city in 1927 ; he was elected to the city council in 1930 and his drive on housing questions made Leeds the leading housing authority in the country . |
| 5 | In 1869 he was elected to the Burntisland town council and chosen as provost . |
| 6 | In 1920 he was elected to the chair of Welsh at Aberystwyth , a post held until his retirement in 1952 . |
| 7 | In 1840 he was elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers and the following year was awarded the Institution 's Telford medal for his work on laminated arch design . |
| 8 | He was elected to the Commons by 2,961 votes to 2,956 in 1892 , which brought him great popularity in India . |
| 9 | With the incorporation of the town in 1900 he was elected to the council , and became its first mayor . |
| 10 | He was elected to the Seven and Five Society in 1926 , being proposed by Winifred and seconded by Ben Nicholson [ qq.v. ] , and he was close to Frances Hodgkins [ q.v. ] and Christopher Wood . |
| 11 | He was elected to the first Protectorate Parliament in 1654 for King 's Lynn , and again to the second in 1656 , this time on a double return which was rejected . |
| 12 | In 1879 he was elected to the State Senate , and in 1880 ran unsuccessfully for Congress . |
| 13 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 14 | He was elected to the Convention Parliament ( April 1660 ) for Ludgershall ( on a double return ) and Stockbridge . |
| 15 | He was elected to the British Association for the Advancement of Science . |
| 16 | In 1746 he was elected to the court of assistants , serving until 1768 . |
| 17 | In January 1641 he was elected to the Hull parliamentary seat made vacant by the death of Sir John Lister . |
| 18 | In 1755 he was elected to the court of directors of the East India Company . |
| 19 | In 1922 he was elected to the chair of Sanskrit in the University of London ( at the School of Oriental Studies ) , which he occupied until the age of retirement in 1954 . |
| 20 | He was elected to the Politburo in 1977 [ see p. 28722 ] and was Vice-President from June 1983 until April 1988 [ see pp. 32503 ; 36102 ] . |
| 21 | He was elected to the National Assembly in 1968 , and became Interior Minister in 1970 ; as Secretary-General to the Presidency he had supervised all government departments . |
| 22 | Ershad , 60 , first came to power as the result of a bloodless coup in 1982 [ see pp. 31501-02 ] ; he assumed the presidency the following year [ see pp. 32919-20 ] , and in November 1986 he was elected to the post for a five-year term [ see p. 34813 ] . |