Example sentences of "[vb pp] resign as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adriaan Ecksteen , who had been compelled to resign as director-general of the government-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation ( SABC ) in April 1988 [ see p. 36069 ] , was named as South Africa 's representative in Namibia on April 12 . |
| 2 | KPMG was asked to resign as auditor in November last year because of the board 's ‘ loss of confidence' , but it refused to accept the request because shareholders might have inferred that it acknowledged criticism of its audit work . |
| 3 | It also involved a sensational TV interview martin Crowe had with his brother Jeff in which he revealed he had been asked to resign as captain on the fourth day of the third Test . |
| 4 | Mr Wakil denounced Mr Najibullah for cowardice in trying to flee and said he had been forced to resign as head of the ruling Watan ( Homeland ) Party . |
| 5 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 6 | Even though Haider was forced to resign as governor of Carinthia in June 1991 [ see p. 38298 ] he remained party leader . |
| 7 | After a period of prolonged popular opposition Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , as laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |
| 8 | After a period of popular unrest , Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced in an interim capacity by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , under a procedure laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |
| 9 | Miyazawa had been forced to resign as Finance Minister in December 1988 [ see p. 38558 ] after appearing to mislead the Diet over his involvement in a scandal which had involved numerous senior Japanese figures receiving cheap unlisted shares in Recruit-Cosmos , a real-estate company . |