Example sentences of "[vb past] been elected to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been elected to the National Executive Committee and she stood up , said how pleased she was , and then said , ‘ But now I have to take the bucket round for a collection because that 's what I always do … ’ and I just thought , ‘ How wonderful ’ . |
| 2 | At the a.g.m. of the Booksellers Association in Torquay this week , president John Hitchin announced the names of the 12 booksellers who had been elected to the revamped BA Council for 1993–94 , following a postal ballot of the entire BA membership . |
| 3 | Dash-Yondon , 45 , had been elected to the central presidium at the party 's fifth plenum in November 1990 , replacing Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosuren . |
| 4 | Two years earlier , on a more limited franchise , the first Senegalese deputy , Blaise Diagne , had been elected to the French National Assembly and had rapidly become a junior minister . |
| 5 | Among the office holders named by the three leaders were : as secretary general Park Jun Byung , a DJP legislator since 1985 and before that an Army general who as commander of the 20th Division had been involved in the violent suppression of the 1980 Kwangju rebellion , a continuing source of bitterness within the South Korean political system ; as floor leader Kim Dong Young , former floor leader of the RDP and one of Kim Young Sam 's closest confidants ; and as chief policy maker Kim Yong Hwan , who had been elected to the National Assembly in 1987 and was one of the most experienced members of the NDRP . |