Example sentences of "number [prep] [adv] elected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davies ( 1979 and 1981 ) , in a study of Wandsworth , describes how a small number of newly elected backbench councillors in the controlling Labour group crucially developed a whole range of new planning and industrial policies . |
| 2 | On the question of the 1995 elections , Patten revealed that Douglas Hurd , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , had formally raised with China the issue of allowing larger number of democratically elected seats . |
| 3 | Sources claimed that China had reservations about a possible expansion of the number of directly elected members of the Legislative Assembly , but more importantly that greater democratic reform in Macao might encourage similar moves in Hong Kong [ see pp. 37672-73 ] . |
| 4 | The Law did not , however , provide for genuine representative government as demanded by many Hong Kong citizens , although it increased the number of directly elected seats to the Legislative Council to one-third of the total by 1997 . |
| 5 | According to the Independent of July 11 , Patten did not plan to increase the number of directly elected seats in the colony 's legislature , a move sought by the advocates of more rapid democratization . |
| 6 | However , he held out little hope that China would increase the number of directly elected Legco seats . |