Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be elected [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Elizabeth Devlin has been elected chairman and Mrs Denise Drumm , vice-chairman . |
| 2 | FORMER Clwyd county councillor Barbara Roberts has been elected chairwoman of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales 's Flint Branch , which covers Alyn and Deeside , Delyn and Rhuddlan . |
| 3 | Hickel had been elected governor of the state in 1966 , as a Republican , but had left office in 1969 to become President Nixon 's first Interior Secretary . |
| 4 | Artur Mkrtchyan had been elected Chair of the Supreme Soviet , with Oleg Yesayan becoming Prime Minister . |
| 5 | In Argentina , for example , Juan Domingo Perón had been elected President in February , and neighbouring Portugal was still ruled by another Right-wing dictator , Antonio Oliveira de Salazar . |
| 6 | During the Reagan-Bush years , however , the level of federal aid to California fell sharply and , with the state 's budget deficit spiralling upwards , Wilson had been elected Governor with a commitment to balance the budget without recourse to increased taxation . |
| 7 | Air Vice-Marshal D G Bailey has been elected Chairman to succeed Sir Charles . |
| 8 | Rev Dick Avi has been elected Chairperson of WACC 's Pacific Regional Association . |
| 9 | THE Rev James Derrick Tyney has been elected Canon of Belfast Cathedral in succession to Canon Norman Woodrow . |
| 10 | As early as February Morrison had been elected chairman of the party 's Campaign Committee , which was a sub-committee of the National Executive . |
| 11 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 12 | In 1988 , after two unsuccessful attempts , Engholm had been elected Minister President of his home state of Schleswig-Holstein [ see pp. 36044-45 ; 35722-23 ] . |
| 13 | Chairman 's hat-trick : Coun Norman Lantsbery had been elected chairman of Loftus Town Council for the third year in succession . |
| 14 | Since Walter Scheel had been elected President on 15 May , Schmidt 's foreign minister was the new FDP leader , Hans-Dietrich Genscher who became , by 1989 , the longest serving foreign minister in the Western world . |
| 15 | In May 1989 Saibou had been elected head of the country 's new supreme ruling body , a half-military and half-civilian Conseil Superieure d'Orientation National ( CSON — Higher Council for National Orientation ) . |