Example sentences of "elections [was/were] held [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections were held on a party political basis to the Convention of the Histadrut trade union federation on Nov. 14 , 1989 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Legislative elections were held on the same day [ see p. 37766 ] . |
| 4 | Elections were held for a number of other posts on Sept. 23-24 . |
| 5 | Significantly , when elections were held for the new parliament , the German politicians refused to participate . |
| 6 | In October 1946 elections were held for the Interim Legislature . |
| 7 | Direct elections were held for the presidency , the vice-presidency and the National Assembly in October 1985 [ see pp. 34146-48 ] . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Elections were held to the DPR in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] . |
| 12 | The 1990 elections were held against an unfamiliar background of uncertainty within the Japanese political system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Run-off elections were held in a second round of voting on Feb. 16 and 23 where no candidate had obtained a simple majority in the first round . |
| 15 | ‘ The first genuinely free elections were held in the Soviet Union , ’ he pointed out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | Local elections were held in the Czech Lands on Nov. 24 and in Slovakia on Nov. 23-25 . |
| 19 | Parliamentary elections were held in the southern ( Greek-Cypriot ) part of the island on May 19 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |