Example sentences of "resigned from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Two others announced their candidatures : Yameogo , who resigned from the transitional government at the end of August and Pierre-Clavier Damiba , a UN official .
2 In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State .
3 Mosley resigned from the Labour government in 1930 as a result of the Cabinet turning down his reflationary programme contained in the Mosley Memorandum .
4 Who resigned from the Labour Party to form the New Party in 1931 ?
5 The Bloc was founded by Lucien Bouchard , the former Environment Minister who resigned from the federal government in May 1990 [ see p. 37519 ] , who was joined by six other defectors from the PCP and the Liberals .
6 In 1955 , he resigned from the colonial service to concentrate on politics and unsuccessfully contested Motherwell in 1955 .
7 Sassen resigned from the colonial ministry but his successor , Beel , also belonged to his party .
8 Application was made two months later , and , in accordance with the rules , Chapman resigned from the Central League management committee .
9 Yesterday he and Botha lunched with Terry Vaux , the WRU committee man who resigned from the International Rugby Board as a result of the South African row .
10 But Terry Vaux , the WRU committeeman who resigned from the International Board because of the row , has written to clubs in his area , Gwent , informing them that Rowlands had encouraged him to attend .
11 Mr Gummer resigned from the General Synod of the Church of England last November when they sent draft legislation to introduce women priests to Parliament .
12 Greenly resigned from the official Survey in the spring of 1885 because his wife was blind in one eye and there was a fear for the sight of the other — which in fact remained intact .
13 When the Party conference began at Brighton in October 1935 , opinion in the Party had hardened against Lansbury and Cripps.Lansbury 's support for pacifism received only 102,000 votes and he resigned from the parliamentary leadership .
14 Indeed , such a split appeared possible in February 1938 when Anthony Eden resigned from the National government because of the attempt by Neville Chamberlain , the Prime Minister , to recruit Italy as an ally against Germany .
15 The entire 80-member opposition ( the PPD , the Democratic Party and two independents ) resigned from the National Assembly on July 23 , and demanded that Roh call an immediate general election .
16 He hated pomp and humbug , and he resigned from the National Academy of Sciences because he found that they spent most of their time deciding which other scientists should be admitted to the Academy .
17 In 1890 he resigned from the Caledonian Railway to establish an engineering works in Queensland .
18 He had spent much of his spare time working on a theory for the formation of atmospheric depressions and decided to devote all his time to it ; he resigned from the Meteorological Office to become a graduate student at Imperial College .
19 But critics who believed that the West was over-reacting were strengthened when Aneurin Bevan resigned from the British cabinet on 21 May accompanied by two other ministers .
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