Example sentences of "elections [be] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BY electing new and reform-minded leaders , East Germany 's Communist party hopes to have won a breathing space in its battle for credibility and survival , six months before the first free elections are due to be held . |
| 2 | BY electing new and reform-minded leaders , East Germany 's Communist party hopes to have won a breathing space in its battle for credibility and survival , six months before the first free elections are due to be held . |
| 3 | Yet general elections are supposed to be ‘ the grand inquest of the nation ’ . |
| 4 | National and state-level elections were due to be held in Haryana in late May . |
| 5 | Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) . |
| 6 | On April 9 the then Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abdul Rahman Abdallah as Awadi said that elections were unlikely to be held before August or September 1992 due to the continued absence of an estimated 400,000 Kuwaitis ( including " second category " citizens ) who had left the country during the Iraqi occupation and who were not expected to return before the end of 1991 . |
| 7 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |