Example sentences of "[was/were] elected [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coalitionists saw well enough the contradiction between politicians who were elected through parties and a government that was the negation of party . |
| 2 | For the first time in the Association 's history , not one of the four Sabbatical Officers , or any of the Executive , were elected under a Party banner . |
| 3 | Kagarlitsky and other officials of the Socialist Party of the USSR successfully took part in the elections to the Moscow City Soviet and were elected as deputies . |
| 4 | In 1624 Nicholas , together with George Herbert , whose family were also involved , and some hundred other members of the Company , were elected as MPs . |
| 5 | The people elected were elected as representatives and not delegates . |
| 6 | Otto Graf Lambsdorff was elected chair of the new party by 524 votes to 72 , while the leaders of the BfD and the East German FDP were elected as additional deputy chairmen of the FDP . |
| 7 | Chile and Ecuador , invited to attended by the other seven countries , were elected as members at the meeting . |
| 8 | The Macedonian Assembly elected on March 20 a new government led by Nikola Kljusev , while Blaze Ristovski , Jovan Andonov and Bekir Zuta were elected as Deputy Premiers , Risto Damjanovski became Minister of Defence , and Jordan Mjalkov took over the Interior Ministry . |
| 9 | Montree Pongpanit and Prayut Siriphanit were elected as leader and secretary general , respectively , of the Social Action Party ( SAP ) on June 9 . |
| 10 | ‘ Three of us were elected to Exhibitions at the same time , and I recall the maturity of his literary powers as contrasted with the callow essays we had to take up to Owen M. Edwards each week . ’ |
| 11 | Eight women members were elected to that parliament , which J. Ramsay MacDonald — the leader of the Labour party — was invited to form a government , but' that government could n't last and , in 1924 , the Conservative party won a large majority , so Stanley Baldwin again became Prime Minister with Winston Churchill as the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 12 | ‘ We succeeded because we were elected to the Lebanese parliament and we were able to take over from the Turks and French in their ministries . ’ |
| 13 | In 1893 they changed their name from Royal Arsenal to Woolwich Arsenal , adopted professional status and were elected to the Second Division . |
| 14 | How many Liberals were elected to Parliament in the 1970 General Election ? |
| 15 | Nina Andreeva was elected leader of the party and 15 full and four candidate members were elected to its central committee . |
| 16 | Four years later , in 1804 , we find that ‘ Charles William Titford and Daniel Slamp … ’ were elected to be two of the Company 's stewards , |
| 17 | The initial decision at congress to enter the formal political arena was taken to defend the trading interests of cooperation against incursions by the state , and when sponsored candidates were elected to parliament they tended to work within the brief by monitoring legislation . |
| 18 | The high point was reached in 1964 , when a grand total of 28 women were elected to the House of Commons . |
| 19 | Blacks had little political power being scarcely represented in local and national government : in 1962 , in the southern states , only six blacks were elected to public office . |
| 20 | By 1988 , 2,908 blacks were elected to public office in the southern states . |
| 21 | The following members were elected to the Committee . |
| 22 | The following were elected to the committee : Mrs M. Heathwood , Mrs S. Higham , Mrs Morag Perrett , Mrs Ruth Wilson , Dr. A.J. Watson , G. Davidson . |
| 23 | Wassira and the Zanzibar Chief Minister , Omar Ali Juma , were elected to the central committee of the CCM during a four-day meeting of the party 's national executive committee in Dodoma which ended on Oct. 15 , 1989 . |
| 24 | Legislative and presidential elections were held simultaneously in April 1988 , when President Paul Biya , who first came to office in November 1982 and was confirmed in office in the presidential elections of January 1984 , obtained 98.75 per cent of the vote ; 153 new deputies were elected to the National Assembly . |
| 25 | A further 144 full members and 59 candidate members were elected to the party 's central council ( Shura-e Markazi ) , and 33 members were elected to an Executive Board ( Hay'at-e Nezar ) . |
| 26 | A further 144 full members and 59 candidate members were elected to the party 's central council ( Shura-e Markazi ) , and 33 members were elected to an Executive Board ( Hay'at-e Nezar ) . |
| 27 | Only 42 new members were elected to the committee , mostly party or government officials from the central or provincial levels . |
| 28 | No new members were elected to the party central committee . |
| 29 | In 1986 84 additional members were elected to the National Assembly ( KMT 68 , DPP 11 , CDSP 1 , independent 4 ) . |
| 30 | FIS deputies were elected to 188 of the 231 seats in which the there was an outright winner . |