Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from office " in BNC.
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| 1 | If accountability had been enhanced , profligate councillors would have been dismissed from office and replaced by more prudent ones . |
| 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 essential elements of the political economic system are : first , that the Government is accountable to an electorate composed of all adult men and women and so liable , if the electorate judges unsatisfactory the account rendered , to be dismissed from office and replaced by another administration ; and secondly , that wages are determined by free collective bargaining in the labour market . |
| 5 | ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA |
| 6 | With great reluctance , Bonhoeffer came to the conclusion that Hitler had to be removed from office and he became party to a plot to assassinate the country 's Führer . |
| 7 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 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 | No Reporter can be removed from office , asked to resign , or be employed in another capacity without the consent of the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | Mrs Kemp 's lawyer , Robert Shaw , believed that , since the law which governs Reporters and their duties provides that a Reporter may nut be removed from office except with the consent of the Secretary of State , this would also prohibit suspension . |
| 11 | Brenner was the prince 's man rather than Gloucester 's , and was to be removed from office after Richard 's accession . |
| 12 | In spite of his being convicted and fined , he could not be removed from office , although he was forbidden to execute its functions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Subject to the terms of his appointment no member of the teaching research or administrative staff of the university ( including the vice-chancellor ) shall be removed from office save upon the grounds specified in paragraph 2 of this section and in pursuance of the procedure specified in clause 1 of this section . |
| 16 | Subject to the terms of his appointment no member of the teaching research or administrative staff of the university ( including the vice-chancellor ) shall be removed from office save upon the grounds specified in paragraph 2 of this section and in pursuance of the procedures specified in clause 1 of this section . |
| 17 | Circuit judges and Recorders , however , may be removed from office by the Lord Chancellor on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour . |
| 18 | Should the steward fail to obey these orders he will be compelled to change his conduct or , like the councillors of Lambeth , Liverpool and Clay Cross , be removed from office . |
| 19 | Thus administrative receivers must be qualified to act as insolvency practitioners and can only be removed from office by the court . |
| 20 | His , left , faction of the party had decided on Jan. 24 to " go into opposition " by withdrawing from all leadership posts after centre-right elements of the DC within the Palermo administration had caused the mayor of that town , Leoluca Orlando , to be removed from office . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The President , serving a maximum of two consecutive five-year terms , could not be removed from office unless ill , whereas he could dissolve parliament . |
| 23 | Brenner was the prince 's man rather than Gloucester 's , and was to be removed from office after Richard 's accession . |
| 24 | Those who refused to do so could be removed from office or fined for neglect of duty . |
| 25 | Deinomenid policy at Syracuse had been successful in creating wealth and with it a prosperous agricultural class , which could not be excluded from office forever . |
| 26 | These have a number of advantages : they are easy to use and set up , requiring little or no training of the operator , can often store pages graphically for retrieval later and can easily be switched from office to office . |
| 27 | A prime minister , so the argument went , who was the subject of such a massive loss of confidence among both the political élite and the public at large would swiftly have been removed from office . |
| 28 | Among the latter was Imelda Marcos whom he had defeated in the election , and who , together with her husband President Ferdinand Marcos , had been forced from office in 1986 by a popular campaign in which Ramos had played a key role . |
| 29 | Barry had been forced from office in 1990 , and had served six months in prison , after being secretly videotaped in the act of smoking crack cocaine . |
| 30 | Failure to act , at least if it amounts to ‘ gross negligence ’ , may also result in a director being disqualified from office under the Company Directors Disqualification Act where the company has gone into liquidation . |