Example sentences of "[was/were] swear [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 On Sept. 28 a new national army , the Angolan Armed Forces ( FAA ) , was established under the joint command of Gen. Antonio dos Santos França Ndalu and Gen. Arlindo Chenda Pena Ben-Ben who were sworn in as the Chiefs of General Staff on the same day .
2 Chimanbhai Patel was sworn in as the Janata Dal Chief Minister on March 5 .
3 Sunderlal Patwa was sworn in as the BJP Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Shyama Charan Shukla of Congress ( I ) who had held the post since early December [ ibid . ] .
4 Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of the BJP was sworn in as the new Chief Minister on March 3 , replacing Harideo Joshi , Congress ( I ) Chief Minister since early December .
5 On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi .
6 Virendra Verma , a Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha , was sworn in as the new Governor on June 14 .
7 The central government finally relinquished President 's rule on Oct. 17 and Bangarappa was sworn in as the new Chief Minister .
8 Hiteshwar Saikia was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister on June 30 .
9 Bhajan Lal was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister on June 23 .
10 Surendra Nath was sworn in as the new governor on Aug. 7 .
11 Oswaldo Fernandez , was sworn in as the new Director of the National Police Force on Oct. 30 , replacing Gonzalo Menendez Franco who had resigned on Oct. 25 following accusations that he had meddled in politics .
12 In March Begum Zia was sworn in as the country 's first woman Prime Minister [ see p. 38102 ] .
13 Congress ( I ) won a majority of seats in state assembly elections held in Haryana in May , and in June Bhajan Lal was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] .
14 Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] .
15 Congress ( I ) won the State Assembly elections held in early June and Hitashwar Saikia was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] .
16 Lallu Prasad Yadav was sworn in as the new Chief Minister in early March [ see pp. 37245 ; 37315 ] .
17 The Congress ( I ) allied A-IADMK won a clear majority in state assembly elections held in June 1991 ; Jayalalitha was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] .
18 After the general election of May 12 , 1991 , Girija Prasad Koirala was sworn in as the new Prime Minister on May 26 and three days later he appointed a new Cabinet [ see p. 38193 ] .
19 Manning was sworn in as the new Prime Minster on Dec. 17 and on Dec. 20 the new Cabinet took office .
20 On June 22 Tokonye Kotelo , hitherto high commissioner in Kenya , was named as Minister of Foreign Affairs following the resignation of Capt. Pius Molapo ; on June 23 Chief Mohlalefi Bereng was sworn in as the Minister of Interior , Chieftaincy Affairs and Rural Development , replacing Kgotsi Matete ; three other Cabinet changes were made on June 29 .
21 On June 15 Frank de Armas was sworn in as the new Development Minister .
22 In the second-round run-off presidential election held on May 8 , 1988 , Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the centre-left Democratic Left ( Izquierda Democrática — ID ) polled 46 per cent of the vote and was sworn in at the head of a new government on Aug. 10 [ see p. 36343 ] .
23 Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years .
24 A new magistrate was sworn in before the sitting yesterday of Whitby Court .
25 Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced .
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