Example sentences of "a [adv] elect [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was particularly critical of the NP vision of a upper house ( presented by the NP as a " house of minorities " ) with the power to veto legislation from a democratically elected lower chamber . |
| 2 | Even in Northern Ireland , the districts are best thought of as the lower tier in a system that simply lacks a democratically elected higher level of local government . |
| 3 | The Conservatives opposed independence or large-scale devolution ; the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) favoured " independence in Europe " ; and Labour and Liberal Democrats advocated the establishment of a separately elected Scottish parliament . |
| 4 | International issues could be under the aegis of a separately elected British Parliament which would replace the House of Lords . |
| 5 | The union treaty was intended to serve as the basis for a new Soviet constitution ; it also set out the structure of government of the new union , including a directly elected Supreme Soviet in which all national areas would be represented . |
| 6 | Commentators contrasted this with the boost given to Yeltsin , his arch rival , by the support in the separate Russian Federation referendum for a directly elected Russian President . |
| 7 | Each is administered by an appointed High Commissioner or Chief Administrator and each ( apart from the Southern and Antarctic Territories which are governed by special statute ) has a directly elected Territorial Assembly or Congress . |
| 8 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 9 | A legally elected Zimbabwean state now came into being . |
| 10 | Legislative authority is vested in a popularly elected bicameral Diet which is composed of a 512-member House of Representatives ( or Lower House , elected for up to four years ) and a House of Councillors ( or Upper House , whose 252 members are elected for six years , with half being due for re-election every three years ) . |
| 11 | Legislative authority is vested in a popularly elected bicameral Diet which is composed of a 512-member House of Representatives ( elected for up to four years ) and a House of Councillors ( whose 252 members are elected for six years , with half being due for re-election every three years ) . |
| 12 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of a popularly elected 49-member House of Assembly and an appointed 16-member Senate . |
| 13 | A newly elected Bulgarian assembly turned out to be very anti-Russian . |
| 14 | Is it wholly chimerical to hope that a newly elected Tory government with an unassailable majority might do its duty , however painful for itself , and take the first steps to reverse this pernicious evil and restore the tried and tested order of our ancestors by which only those fitted to rule have any right to elect the government of this country under the Crown ? |
| 15 | His control over the administration was subjugated , via the responsibility of his secretaries of state , to an automatically elected unicameral assembly . |
| 16 | Even worse , the Conservative plan was for the elected councillors for these authorities to be replaced by nominees from the second-tier borough councils , which in London involved the replacement of an elected Labour majority by an indirectly elected Conservative majority . |