Example sentences of "be [verb] to office with " in BNC.
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1 | One party would be returned to office with an overall majority and implement its manifesto program , a program neither known nor supported by most electors and one drawn up on the basis more of party dogma than of a dispassionate and well-informed analysis of Britain 's problems . |
2 | Although official results were not available at the end of September , unofficial returns indicated that the Goss administration had been returned to office with an almost unchanged overall majority . |
3 | At the last general election in August 1987 the PLM was re-elected to office with four seats , the NDP won two and the PDP one [ see p. 35373 ] . |
4 | In the general election of April 1991 the HRPP was returned to office with 26 seats , while the opposition SNDP won 18 [ see pp. 38153-54 ] . |
5 | The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party ( GSLP ) led by Joe Bossano was returned to office with nearly three-quarters of the vote in elections in the self-governing British colony on Jan. 16 . |
6 | In the February 1974 election , no party was returned to office with an overall majority of seats . |