Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] elect [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As was widely expected , Itzhak Rabin , who had been elected as party leader in February , and Shimon Peres , whom Rabin had replaced as leader , emerged as first and second respectively on the party list . |
2 | Tensions were raised on Jan. 26 when Achmet Sadiq , a leader of the Moslem minority who had been elected to Parliament in June 1989 but disqualified from the November election on procedural grounds , and another Moslem parliamentary candidate were found guilty of " inciting violence and dissension " and using the word " Turkish " in their campaign manifestos . |
3 | Two more Kurdish deputies who had been elected to parliament as members of the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) resigned from the party on May 29 , to continue as independents . |
4 | He was awakened later by the sound of laughter and , heaving himself out of his chair , he joined two Tories , John Taylor , the unsuccessful candidate for Cheltenham , and Mirj Deva , who had been elected for Brentford and Isleworth . |
5 | On Aug. 7 the Presidents of Argentina , Ecuador and Venezuela , along with the United States Vice-President , the provisional President of Haiti and officials from 79 other countries , attended the inauguration of President César Gaviria Trujillo , 43 , who had been elected on May 27 [ see pp. 37450-51 ] . |
6 | President Francesco Cossiga , 63 , who had been elected in July 1985 , had made it clear that he would not be standing for re-election . |
7 | Havel , who had been elected in December 1989 to serve in an interim capacity [ see p. 37107 ] , was the sole candidate ; a number of other individuals had been disqualified , not having been nominated by parliamentary deputies , while Stefan Kvietik , nominated by the Slovak National Party , had withdrawn . |
8 | William " Stanley " Usher , who had been elected in September 1989 as an opposition UDP representative , was expelled from the party on Dec. 13 , 1989 , and joined the ruling PUP ; he had signalled his support for the PUP immediately after the general election . |