Example sentences of "[adj] he was elected to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1879 he was elected to the State Senate , and in 1880 ran unsuccessfully for Congress . |
| 2 | In 1984 he was elected to the very distinguished position of member of the Academie Francaise , bastion of French culture . |
| 3 | In 1920 he was elected to the chair of Welsh at Aberystwyth , a post held until his retirement in 1952 . |
| 4 | In 1922 he was elected to the chair of Sanskrit in the University of London ( at the School of Oriental Studies ) , which he occupied until the age of retirement in 1954 . |
| 5 | In 1840 he was elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers and the following year was awarded the Institution 's Telford medal for his work on laminated arch design . |
| 6 | In 1746 he was elected to the court of assistants , serving until 1768 . |
| 7 | In 1755 he was elected to the court of directors of the East India Company . |
| 8 | Ershad , 60 , first came to power as the result of a bloodless coup in 1982 [ see pp. 31501-02 ] ; he assumed the presidency the following year [ see pp. 32919-20 ] , and in November 1986 he was elected to the post for a five-year term [ see p. 34813 ] . |
| 9 | In 1869 he was elected to the Burntisland town council and chosen as provost . |
| 10 | With the incorporation of the town in 1900 he was elected to the council , and became its first mayor . |
| 11 | In January 1641 he was elected to the Hull parliamentary seat made vacant by the death of Sir John Lister . |
| 12 | In 1988 he was elected to the National Assembly on behalf of the main opposition party at that time , the Party for Peace and Democracy , and in August of that year he made an unauthorized visit to North Korea where he reportedly met the North Korean President Kim Il-sing and other officials . |