Example sentences of "[vb pp] from office by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 2 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
| 3 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 4 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 5 | The Chief Constable of Brighton was dismissed from office by the Brighton Watch Committee without an adequate hearing . |
| 6 | Of the previous four presidents one , Johnson , had been effectively driven from office by the failure of his Vietnam policy ; one , Nixon , had resigned in disgrace and neither Ford nor Carter had been able to cope with the limits on presidential power . |
| 7 | Individual ministers were censured and driven from office by the House , examples being Russell in 1855 and Ellenborough in 1858 . |
| 8 | It was not unknown in Nigeria for emirs to be removed from office by the British , but only when they committed crimes which brought discredit upon the administration , never for mere recalcitrance . |
| 9 | The Chancellor was to be elected by a majority of the Bundestag to act as the head of the executive , and could only be removed from office by a ‘ constructive vote of no confidence ’ : that is , if the Bundestag voted a Chancellor out , they also had to put forward an alternative to replace him . |
| 10 | He is not a civil servant but is a direct Crown appointee who can only be removed from office by an address from both Houses of Parliament . |
| 11 | Circuit judges and Recorders , however , may be removed from office by the Lord Chancellor on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour . |
| 12 | Thus administrative receivers must be qualified to act as insolvency practitioners and can only be removed from office by the court . |
| 13 | The President might only be removed from office by the Congress of People 's Deputies in the event of his violating the Constitution or the law . |
| 14 | ( 5 ) if he is removed from office by a resolution duly passed under Section 303 of the Act ; |
| 15 | ( 5 ) if he is removed from office by a resolution duly passed under Section 303 of the Act ; |