Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] was sworn [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Surendra Nath was sworn in as the new governor on Aug. 7 .
2 On July 1 Gopal Singh was sworn in as Governor of Nagaland after the transfer of Gen. ( retd ) K. V. Krishna Rao to Jammu and Kashmir [ see above ] .
3 Lt.-Col. Mohammed Buba Murwa was sworn in as Governor of Borno state on June 8 , 1990 .
4 President Hafez al-Assad was sworn in for a fourth term in office on March 12 .
5 On June 21 P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in as India 's ninth Prime Minister by President Venkataraman .
6 K. Karunakaran was sworn in on June 23 as Chief Minister of a Congress ( I ) -led United Democratic Front ( UDF ) government .
7 The next day Ershad formally resigned and Shehabuddin Ahmed was sworn in as acting President in a brief ceremony attended by , amongst others , Gen. Khan and the main opposition leaders .
8 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 . ] .
9 The BJP defeated Congress ( I ) in State Assembly elections held in February 1990 ; Sunderlal Patwa was sworn in as Chief Minister , replacing Shyama Charan Shukla [ see p. 37245 ] .
10 Nevertheless the Northern Ireland Executive was sworn in on 31 December 1973 and took office the following day .
11 Prime Minister : Begum Khaleda Zia was sworn in as Prime Minister in March 1991 , and from October also held the portfolios of Defence , Establishment and Cabinet Division .
12 Congress ( I ) retained control of the State Assembly in Arunachal Pradesh in elections held in February 1990 , and Agong Apang was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister in March [ see pp. 37245 ] .
13 Mr Endara was sworn in as President shortly after midnight last night , on a US military base , in the presence of a US Major-General , with members of Panamanian human rights groups as witnesses .
14 Jyoti Basu was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister on June 29 at the head of a CPI(M)-led government .
15 The CPI(M) was returned to power in State Assembly elections held in May 1991 ; Jyoti Basu was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister in June [ see p. 38287 ] .
16 Following the narrow victory of the Dominica Freedom Party ( DFP ) in the general election of May 28 [ see pp. 37448-49 ] , Eugenia Charles was sworn in for a third consecutive five-year term as Prime Minister and in early June announced sweeping changes to her Cabinet .
17 On April 5 Hans Eichel was sworn in as Minister President at the head of a SPD-Green coalition in Hesse [ for January 1991 Land election see p. 37966 ] .
18 The country was returned nominally to civilian rule on Dec. 5 , when Ratu Ganilau was sworn in as President .
19 On April 6 Churchill Alemao was sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a Progressive Democratic Front ( PDF ) government .
20 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 ] .
21 In March Begum Zia was sworn in as the country 's first woman Prime Minister [ see p. 38102 ] .
22 Sam Nujoma was sworn in as Namibia 's first President by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar .
23 On Dec. 17 Franz Vranitzky was sworn in as Federal Chancellor at the head of a " grand coalition " of his own Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) and the centre-right People 's Party ( ÖVP ) .
24 Lallu Prasad Yadav was sworn in as the new Chief Minister in early March [ see pp. 37245 ; 37315 ] .
25 The PPP 's veteran leader Cheddi Jagan was sworn in on Oct. 9 as the new President , with his running mate Sam Hinds as Prime Minister and a new Cabinet .
26 Gonzalo Menendez Park was sworn in as Foreign Minister on Oct. 22 , replacing Alvaro Arzú Irigoyen who had resigned in September [ see p. 38432 ] .
27 K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Oct. 9 to replace N. Janardhan Reddy , who resigned after the High Court ruled that permission to open a private medical college in Nellore , granted to Reddy 's wife , had been " vitiated by bias " .
28 Ron Carey was sworn in as president of the Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) on Feb. 1 , in a move which marked the culmination of a process of reform which appeared to have transformed one of the most notoriously corrupt of US trade unions .
29 Only hours after Kennedy 's death , Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as President on board the presidential aircraft , Air Force One .
30 F. W. de Klerk was sworn in on Sept. 20 , 1989 , as the new executive President , chosen on Sept. 14 ( following elections on Sept. 6 to all three houses of the tricameral Parliament ) by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives , and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] .
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