Example sentences of "[adv] elected [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He served Edinburgh University from 1895 as the assessor of the university court and was soon elected a curator of patronage , a post he held until he died . |
| 2 | The British people had just elected a Conservative Government , headed by Britain 's first ever woman Prime Minister , who had already earned the reputation of being ‘ the best man for the job ’ in the Conservative Party . |
| 3 | My local golf club has just elected a black man to the committee , ’ he added . |
| 4 | The state had not elected a Republican governor since the Reconstruction period which had followed the Civil War . |
| 5 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 6 | National legislative authority rests with the bicameral National Congress , comprising a Chamber of Deputies of variable size which is directly elected every four years , and a 69-member Federal Senate elected for eight-year terms with elections at four-year intervals for , alternately , one-third and two-thirds of the members . |
| 7 | Key institutions : ( i ) the Commission ( which proposes legislation and implements the Treaties — for composition see pp. 36405-06 ) ; ( ii ) the Council ( the key decision-making body , generally comprising the relevant government ministers but also meeting at head of state and government level as the European Council ) ; ( iii ) the Parliament , directly elected every five years since 1979 ; ( iv ) the European Court of Justice ; ( v ) the European Investment Bank [ see p. 38023 for annual report ] ; ( vi ) the European Court of Auditors ; and ( vii ) the Economic and Social Committee ( ECOSOC , an advisory body ) . |
| 8 | The most obvious suppliers were the Republic 's fellow democracies , Britain and France , especially the latter which in May had also elected a Popular Front government . |
| 9 | He was also elected a member of the Russian Free Economical Society on 23 May 1797 . |
| 10 | On Feb. 28 the congress approved this report and an amended party platform and constitution , and also elected a new leadership , including Budragchaagiyn Dash-Yondon as replacement for Ochirbat . |
| 11 | He would now chair the new 99-member central committee ; delegates also elected a nine-member central presidium ( first elected in April 1990 to replace the politburo — see p. 37374 ) , three-member secretariat and 33-member control commission . |
| 12 | Legislative power is shared by the President and the 281-member National Assembly , which is also elected every five years . |
| 13 | Legislative power is shared by the President and a 281-member National Assembly which is also elected every five years . |
| 14 | A unicameral legislature , the National Assembly , is also elected every five years by universal suffrage . |
| 15 | In addition to electing the 212 members of the Chamber of Representatives ( lower house of parliament ) , voters also elected the 106 directly elected members of the 184-member Senate ( upper house ) . |
| 16 | In the autumn of 1659 , when he was even appointed ( very briefly as it turned out ) to be a treasury commissioner , he was also elected an alderman of the City ; early the next year he was excused from this dignity owing to lack of means . |
| 17 | So an unholy alliance of cow-keepers and slum-owners repeatedly elected the kind of corporation that would fight to the death ‘ the unsightly monster ’ of enclosure — as the mayor called it in 1825 . |
| 18 | Under the 1976 Constitution legislative authority is held by the unicameral National Assembly of People 's Power , whose 510 members are indirectly elected every five years , most recently in 1986 , by popularly elected local assemblies . |
| 19 | Under the 1976 Constitution , legislative authority is held by the unicameral National Assembly of People 's Power , whose 510 members are indirectly elected every five years , most recently in 1986 , by popularly elected local assemblies . |
| 20 | He was consequently elected a fellow of the Royal Society . |
| 21 | His entrance test was to set a four-part antiphon ( in a locked room to prevent cheating ) : he completed the task — which took some composers four hours or so — in just over half an hour , and was unanimously elected a member of the Accademia . |
| 22 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament ( consisting of a House of Assembly which is popularly elected every five years , and an appointed Senate ) , to which the Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible and upon whose advice they are appointed to office by the Governor General . |
| 23 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of a 28-seat House of Assembly popularly elected every five years , and a 21-seat appointed Senate . |
| 24 | A possible solution to this particular problem ( which is not supported by the CBI ) would be a quotient system of election , under which shareholders and employees jointly elected the board , with their respective votes weighted to give employees between one-third and one-half of the value of the total votes cast . |
| 25 | At the end of August 1989 the " state-approved " Islamic party , the United Development Party ( Partai Persatuan Pembangunan — PPP ) , unexpectedly elected a new chairman . |
| 26 | Educated at St Peter 's School , York , and at University College London , he gained his MD in 1873 , and was subsequently elected a fellow of the college . |
| 27 | Although Houston had never elected a black mayor , the question of race was not a significant campaign factor , with Lanier campaigning strongly in black neighbourhoods and Turner receiving considerable white support , including that of Whitmire . |