Example sentences of "election be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Narain Dutt Tewari of Uttar Pradesh could be a contender if he wins the state election being held alongside the parliamentary one ; but he may be beaten by the BJP . |
| 2 | Details of the last privatisation before the election were unveiled with the announcement of the £30m-plus flotation of Forth Ports . |
| 3 | The President is elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term , at the same time as elections are held to the National Assembly . |
| 4 | The elections were necessitated by the death of Emilios Mamakaslos and Salim 's move to the OAU . |
| 5 | Business and elections were conducted on the first day , followed by speeches and discussion spread over the following two days and an evening conversazione where " everybody was in the best of spirits . |
| 6 | The elections were conducted on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 7 | Professor Rogers has shown the role of the wider populace when elections were contested in the widely enfranchised Westminster constituency in 1741 and 1749 and has suggested they foreshadowed the riots associated with John Wilkes . |
| 8 | With the Constitution approved , presidential elections were expected to take place by the end of October and legislative elections were scheduled for the end of December . |
| 9 | Following further argument in Rome , it was decided that episcopal elections were to fall to the convents of Coventry and Lichfield by turn . |
| 10 | Elections were held on the same day for the 216 elective seats in the ( enlarged ) National Assembly , with voters choosing between two candidates in most constituencies ; eight candidates were returned unopposed , among them six serving Cabinet ministers . |
| 11 | Legislative elections were held on the same day [ see p. 37766 ] . |
| 12 | Significantly , when elections were held for the new parliament , the German politicians refused to participate . |
| 13 | In October 1946 elections were held for the Interim Legislature . |
| 14 | Direct elections were held for the presidency , the vice-presidency and the National Assembly in October 1985 [ see pp. 34146-48 ] . |
| 15 | Following political reforms in May 1990 which abolished the leading role of the MPRP , multiparty elections were held for the first time in July 1990 , to the Little and Great Hurals , and to local Hurals in the 18 provinces and three municipalities [ see pp. 37609-10 ; p. 37656 ] . |
| 16 | Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) . |
| 17 | Elections were held to the state parliaments in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony on May 13 , involving 19,000,000 voters or two-fifths of the West German electorate . |
| 18 | Elections were held to the DPR in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] . |
| 19 | The elections were held against the background of the serious and savage autumn harvest uprisings in October 1946 and were characterised by various grave deficiencies : some electors were not notified of the election , votes were cast by others in the names of genuine electors . |
| 20 | ‘ The first genuinely free elections were held in the Soviet Union , ’ he pointed out . |
| 21 | No elections were held in the predominantly Tamil Northern and Eastern Provinces because it was judged that the Tamil Tiger terrorists would have set about disrupting them . |
| 22 | The elections were held in the context of continuing controversy over the recent introduction of the community charge ( " poll tax " ) system of local government finance [ see page 37329 ] . |
| 23 | Local elections were held in the Czech Lands on Nov. 24 and in Slovakia on Nov. 23-25 . |
| 24 | Parliamentary elections were held in the southern ( Greek-Cypriot ) part of the island on May 19 . |
| 25 | Against a background of continuing civil war between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) in the northern and eastern provinces , local elections were held throughout the rest of the island on May 11 , resulting in a sweeping victory for the ruling United National Party ( UNP ) . |
| 26 | In the corporation of London , for example , the fact that local elections were spread across the year ( with those for the sheriffs being in midsummer , for the lord mayor in September , and for the common councilmen in December ) , and were invariably fought out along party lines , meant that political passions seldom had a chance to cool down . |
| 27 | Elections were ordered by the Amir in June 1991 in a decree derided by the opposition as " a facade of democracy " [ see p. 38309 ] . |
| 28 | Presidential elections were held last May and the opposition candidate , Guillermo Endara , is believed to have won by a large majority , but the elections were annulled by the general amid renewed protests . |
| 29 | A military aeroplane set out for the Kaylayaan islands with voting papers for the village elections being held throughout the Philippines . |
| 30 | The eagerness of senators to address voter anxiety over the current level of crime in advance of the 1992 elections was demonstrated by the manner in which both Democrats and Republicans attempted to claim credit for the anti-crime package . |