Example sentences of "was elect [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 3 | In 1906 he became university lecturer in palaeography , in 1920 he received a Cambridge Litt.D. , in 1925 he served as Sandars reader in bibliography , and in 1927 he was elected as the first full-time Disney professor of archaeology . |
| 4 | On 21 December , de Gaulle was elected as the first President of the Fifth Republic , with 78.5 per cent of the votes cast by an electoral college of 80,000 " notables " . |
| 5 | He was elected at the first count , Ruari Quinn at the fifteenth . |