Example sentences of "vote for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , only slightly more than half the electorate voted , when other turn-outs for referendums have been around two-thirds ; and despite considerable pressure from the clergy , only one-third of the total electorate actually voted for the measure . |
| 2 | Personally , I would have voted for the lads at Cain 's Brewery but Twitters may have got the jitters if the revamped Higson 's had made the headlines . |
| 3 | This week , 60 per cent voted for multilateralism . |
| 4 | His explanation for this defeat in the leadership elections - that some right-wing MPs voted for Michael Foot in order to justify their subsequent defection to the SDP — looks fanciful to say the least . |
| 5 | In the election of 1918 they could not bear it and both voted for the Labour Party . |
| 6 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 7 | A telling statistic in a recent election study by Rose and McAllister is that , whereas in 196480 per cent of those who came from homes in which both parents were Labour voters themselves voted for the party , by 1983 the proportion from such backgrounds which still voted Labour had dropped to 45 Per cent . |
| 8 | So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers . |
| 9 | Arguably , she is already on the screen so much that further appearances only supplement the passionate irritation which she provokes even among those who have voted for her . |
| 10 | Daily Mail journalists voted for industrial action over plans not to recognise the National Union of Journalists in a postal ballot . |
| 11 | According to Audrjus Siaurusevicius , a journalist in the capital , Vilnius , the entire party leadership voted for the change . |
| 12 | Members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union voted for but Transport and General Workers ' staff have voted against and yesterday held another one-day strike . |
| 13 | Like their colleagues in further education , the 17,000 lecturers in the sector have voted for a marking and exam boycott . |
| 14 | Most Labour MPs voted for the motion , most Liberal Democrats , including Mr Paddy Ashdown , voted against — as did Dr David Owen . |
| 15 | Slovenes voted for this last December ; in Croatia on May 19th 94% of those voting ( in an 83% turnout ) opted for a sovereign Croatia ( see box on previous page ) . |
| 16 | Almost all Protestants voted for the Unionist Party and Catholics either voted for nationalists or abstained . |
| 17 | Almost all Protestants voted for the Unionist Party and Catholics either voted for nationalists or abstained . |
| 18 | Although some Catholics ( and fewer Protestants ) voted for the socialist platform of Paddy Devlin or the militancy of Bernadette McAliskey ( née Devlin ) , most voted for Hume . |
| 19 | If people had imagined in 1933 that things would have come to such a pitch , they 'd never have voted for Hitler . |
| 20 | What was said by a single inhabitant of Berchtesgaden in March 1945 was a sentiment undoubtedly close to the hearts of most Germans at this time : ‘ If we 'd have imagined in 1933 how things would turn out , we 'd never have voted for Hitler . ’ |
| 21 | They had more Catholics than Protestants , and so voted for the Republic when Ireland was partitioned . |
| 22 | AN INVESTIGATION is to be mounted at BAFTA into the award of a prize to the Granada drama Prime Suspect after four of the seven jury members claim to have voted for Channel 4 's GBH . |
| 23 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 24 | AN INVESTIGATION is to be mounted at BAFTA into the award of a prize to the Granada drama Prime Suspect after four of the seven jury members claim to have voted for Channel 4 's GBH . |
| 25 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 26 | Tension has risen sharply since a referendum last month in which the majority of the population voted for independence . |
| 27 | It was feared Italians had voted for ‘ a Polish parliament ’ , where more than a dozen parties will be represented in parliament , incapable of supporting a coherent government coalition . |
| 28 | ‘ Instead , Italians have voted for fragmentation , ’ said Signor Arnaldo Forlani , the party general secretary , who said he would now consider his own position . |
| 29 | The four judges — Archie Tait , David Reid , Loius Marks , and Ross Devenish — said they had all voted for GBH , and the decision was ‘ inexplicable ’ . |
| 30 | Statewide , only a tenth of registered Democrats voted for him . |