Example sentences of "[verb] be elect [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louisville , USA : , technical services representative for Porter International , has been elected treasurer of the Ohio Chapter of the Steel Structures Painting Council ( SSPC ) . |
| 2 | Don Macro , of Brompton Walk , Darlington , has been elected chairman of the town 's Talking Newspaper for the Blind . |
| 3 | STUART Renton , MBE , DA , ARSA , FRIBA , FRIAS , has been elected chairman of the board of governors of Edinburgh College of Art , He succeeds Martin Huggins , chairman since January 1991 . |
| 4 | THE Rev James Derrick Tyney has been elected Canon of Belfast Cathedral in succession to Canon Norman Woodrow . |
| 5 | Rev Dick Avi has been elected Chairperson of WACC 's Pacific Regional Association . |
| 6 | FORMER Clwyd county councillor Barbara Roberts has been elected chairwoman of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales 's Flint Branch , which covers Alyn and Deeside , Delyn and Rhuddlan . |
| 7 | But first , Boris Yeltsin the man sacked by President Gorbachov as Moscow Communist Party Chief , has been elected leader of the Russian Federation ; Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful Republic . |
| 8 | Professor J.M. Bately ( Janet Summers ) has been elected Fellow of the British Academy . |
| 9 | Dr Helen Ross , Reader in Psychology University of Stirling , has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Alain Gourd , Canada 's Deputy Minister of Communications , has been elected President of the International Institute of Communications , a UK-based organisation which undertakes communication research and policy analysis … |
| 11 | His preaching was scholarly and evangelical and he would probably have been elected Vice-President of the Conference but for the onset of ill-health . |
| 12 | It was after the Revolution , however , that Herne , having been elected MP for Dartmouth on 28 November 1689 ( representing the constituency until his death ) , and knighted on 15 September 1690 , emerged to some prominence . |
| 13 | He had been elected Treasurer of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and , as such , demonstrated the prime motive of his life — an unashamed love of money . |
| 14 | Toby Chauncy ( 1673–1733 ) , a cousin of Richard Chauncy and a former owner of the house , had been elected Member of Parliament for Banbury in 1730 [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 15 | In May 1989 Saibou had been elected head of the country 's new supreme ruling body , a half-military and half-civilian Conseil Superieure d'Orientation National ( CSON — Higher Council for National Orientation ) . |
| 16 | Previously he had been elected chairman of the Falkland Islands Committee because his determination to keep the Falklands British was such a boost to the morale of the islanders . |
| 17 | As early as February Morrison had been elected chairman of the party 's Campaign Committee , which was a sub-committee of the National Executive . |
| 18 | Chairman 's hat-trick : Coun Norman Lantsbery had been elected chairman of Loftus Town Council for the third year in succession . |
| 19 | He took the decision soon after he had been elected Speaker in 1983 . |
| 20 | Bell , 18 , had been elected vice-captain of the Durham Junior Golfing Society and was in the team to play the Durham senior side at Chester-leStreet on April 19 . |
| 21 | Heinz , 52 , an heir to the H. J. Heinz food fortune , had been elected senator for Pennsylvania in 1976 , following five years in the House of Representatives . |
| 22 | Since Walter Scheel had been elected President on 15 May , Schmidt 's foreign minister was the new FDP leader , Hans-Dietrich Genscher who became , by 1989 , the longest serving foreign minister in the Western world . |
| 23 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |
| 24 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 25 | It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 26 | A nephew of Napoleon I had been elected President of the French Second Republic in December 1848 and was to become Emperor of the French in 1852 . |
| 27 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 28 | Under the arrangement a Spanish socialist , Enrique Barón Crespo , had been elected President in 1989 [ see p. 36818 ] . |
| 29 | Thomas Klestil , who had been elected President in May [ see p. 38929 ] , took office on July 8 . |
| 30 | The veteran diplomat and former Union Minister K. R. Narayanan was elected as India 's ninth Vice-President on Aug. 19 in succession to S. D. Sharma , who had been elected President in July [ see p. 39008 ] . |