Example sentences of "was swear in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three years as a cadet carrying out basic police tasks around the station , I was sworn in as a constable . |
| 2 | ATHENS ( UPI ) — The Greek Chief Justice , Yannis Grivas , was sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister , with a 20-member cabinet of judges and retired army men , to take the country into general elections on 5 November . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Only hours after Kennedy 's death , Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as President on board the presidential aircraft , Air Force One . |
| 5 | In March Suharto was sworn in as acting President and in December 1967 Sukarno was placed under house arrest in Bogor . |
| 6 | Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) which had gained the largest number of seats in elections to the National Assembly held on Nov. 16 , 1988 ( see pp. 36347-48 ) , was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 2 , and a new federal Cabinet was appointed on Dec. 4 . |
| 7 | Chimanbhai Patel was sworn in as the Janata Dal Chief Minister on March 5 . |
| 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 | Biju Patnaik of Janata Dal was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Hemandanda Biswal , who had held the post for Congress ( I ) since early December . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | D. Ramachandran of the DMK was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 8 , replacing M. O. H. Farooq of Congress ( I ) . |
| 12 | Following the presidential elections on May 7 , 1989 , the result of which was annulled by Noriega on May 10 [ see p. 36645 ] , Francisco Rodríguez , a close friend of Noriega and former comptroller general of the treasury , was sworn in as provisional President on Sept. 1 [ see p. 36846 ] . |
| 13 | Sam Nujoma was sworn in as Namibia 's first President by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On July 1 , 1989 , Chintamani Panigrahi , a former Minister of State for Defence Production [ see above ] , was sworn in as Governor of Manipur . |
| 16 | On July 1 , 1989 , A. A. Rahim was sworn in as Governor of Meghalaya , the first separate governor for the state . |
| 17 | On July 1 , 1989 , Capt. W. A. Sangma , a former Chief Minister of Meghalaya , was sworn in as Governor of Mizoram . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | On March 20 , 1989 , Thanga Velly Rajeshwar ( Governor of Sikkim since 1985 — see p. 34680 ) was sworn in as Governor of West Bengal , replacing S. Nural Hassan who had been appointed Governor of Orissa in November 1988 [ see p. 36694 ] . |
| 20 | On April 6 Churchill Alemao was sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a Progressive Democratic Front ( PDF ) government . |
| 21 | Surjit Singh Barnala , Chief Minister of Punjab between 1985 and 1987 , was sworn in as Governor of the southern state of Tamil Nadu on May 24 . |
| 22 | Lee Teng-hui , chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party ( KMT ) , was sworn in as President of Taiwan at a ceremony in Taipei , the capital , on May 20 , having been chosen by the country 's electoral college in March [ see pp. 37318-19 ] . |
| 23 | A presidential election on April 14 , 1985 , was won by Alan García Pérez of the centre-left American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana — APRA ) , who was sworn in as President on July 28 , 1985 [ see pp. 33836-37 ] . |
| 24 | Hugh Desmond Hoyte , who had assumed office on Aug. 6 , 1985 [ see p. 33977 ] , was sworn in as elected President on Dec. 12 [ see p. 34162 ] . |
| 25 | Virendra Verma , a Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha , was sworn in as the new Governor on June 14 . |
| 26 | On June 20 Iliescu was sworn in as President . |
| 27 | The central government finally relinquished President 's rule on Oct. 17 and Bangarappa was sworn in as the new Chief Minister . |
| 28 | Lt.-Col. Mohammed Buba Murwa was sworn in as Governor of Borno state on June 8 , 1990 . |
| 29 | Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state by the former Governor General , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , who was sworn in as President on Dec. 5 . |
| 30 | 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 . |