Example sentences of "elected to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 2 | On May 28 the SNM announced that Ahmed Ali had been elected to the presidency of the new republic , and that a civil service , judiciary , central bank governor and relief co-ordinator would be appointed . |
| 3 | In 1746 he was elected to the court of assistants , serving until 1768 . |
| 4 | In 1755 he was elected to the court of directors of the East India Company . |
| 5 | The last time anyone so young was elected to the throne of St Peter was Clement VII in 1523 . |
| 6 | Last month , he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Disney company — no Mickey Mouse operation , with US$6 billion in assets , and investors in New York , London , Brussels and Paris . |
| 7 | He was never elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society , but in 1898 his work was recognized by the award of the gold medal of the Linnean Society . |
| 8 | She was one of the first women to be elected to the fellowship of the Linnean Society ( 1905 ) . |
| 9 | He had been elected to the leadership of the former All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in 1986 , and served as chairman of that body for three months prior to his election in July 1990 to the CPSU politburo and secretariat . |
| 10 | But in 1678 Joseph was elected to the committee of the East India company , serving continuously down to 1686 , and then from 1687 to 1694 and from 1698 until his death . |
| 11 | Twice as many women are elected to the Church of England 's General Synod , they 're confident it will herald the ordination of women . |
| 12 | As amended , Article 6 of the Constitution , which previously had enshrined the Communist Party as the " leading and guiding force in Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system " , now read : " The Communist Party of the Soviet Union , other political parties , trade unions , youth and other social organizations and mass movements participate in the formulation of the policy of the Soviet state and in the administration of state and social affairs through their representatives elected to the soviets of people 's deputies and in other ways . " |
| 13 | I , , having been elected to the office of Lord Mayor , declare that I take thi that office upon myself and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it according to the best of my judgement and ability . |
| 14 | I , , be having been elected to the office of Vice Chair , declare that I take that office upon myself and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it according to the best of my judgement and ability . |
| 15 | FRANK Field , whose political career stood at the crossroads last night , was first elected to the House of Commons in May 1979 . |
| 16 | In 1970 I left The Times on being elected to the House of Commons . |
| 17 | Even apparently respectable citizens , family men and pillars of the establishment ( one old-time big-wave rider had been elected to the House of Representatives and was running for Hawaii State Governor ) become teenage rebels again when they wax down their boards . |
| 18 | Mrs Michael McAliskey was the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Commons as MP for Mid Ulster in 1969 . |
| 19 | The high point was reached in 1964 , when a grand total of 28 women were elected to the House of Commons . |
| 20 | , Dadabhai ( 1825–1917 ) , the first Indian elected to the House of Commons , was born in Khadak , near Bombay , 4 September 1825 , the only son of Naoroji Palanji Dordi , a poor Parsi priest , and his wife Manekbai . |
| 21 | LABOUR MP Norman Hogg plans to introduce a bill that will end the 200-year ban preventing vicars , Catholic priests and Scottish ministers from being elected to the House of Commons . |
| 22 | After serving in the US Army in Vietnam in 1969-71 , Gore worked as a journalist before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 and to the Senate in 1984 and 1990 . |
| 23 | The leader of another informal nationalist grouping , the Forum for the Peoples of Abkhazia , was elected to the Congress of People 's Deputies and to the new-style Supreme Soviet , where he expressed some reservations about the idea of strengthening the fifteen union republics at the expense , almost certainly , of the smaller national-territorial units that were subordinate to them . |
| 24 | Dr Keith Suter of Australia has been elected to the Club of Rome , the prestigious international group of some 100 leading scientists , educators , philosophers and activists from 35 countries . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She was an apostle of teacher training and as the first woman to be elected to the senate of London University promoted the foundation of the London Day Training College and the accompanying chair in education . |
| 27 | In October Paraguay was elected to the Group of Rio [ see p. 37774 ] . |
| 28 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 enacts this Provision though it substitutes 208 hours for twenty-six days and exempts employees who are elected to the chair of councils ( Clause 10 ) . |
| 29 | In 1920 he was elected to the chair of Welsh at Aberystwyth , a post held until his retirement in 1952 . |
| 30 | Tilden became senior science master at Clifton College , Bristol , in 1872 and was elected to the chair of chemistry at the newly founded Mason College in Birmingham ( later the University of Birmingham ) eight years later . |