Example sentences of "[be] [verb] from office [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Brenner was the prince 's man rather than Gloucester 's , and was to be removed from office after Richard 's accession . |
| 6 | Brenner was the prince 's man rather than Gloucester 's , and was to be removed from office after Richard 's accession . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Circuit judges and Recorders , however , may be removed from office by the Lord Chancellor on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour . |
| 11 | Thus administrative receivers must be qualified to act as insolvency practitioners and can only be removed from office by the court . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Kadet sympathizers were swept from office in the zemstvo elections of 1906 , and even the more moderate Octobrist party , dedicated to cautious co-operation with the government on the basis of the Fundamental Laws , found growing difficulty in resisting the rightward shift of rank-and-file noblemen . |
| 18 | Following the Restoration he was considered sufficiently dangerous and obnoxious to be listed as one of the twenty non-regicides whose property was to be forfeit and who were excluded from office in perpetuity . |
| 19 | Under Edward II two of his seneschals ( the Genoese Antonio di Pessagno and the Englishman Ralph Basset of Drayton ) were removed from office within a year of their appointments , in 1318 and 1324 respectively . |
| 20 | All but one of the ex-PUWP ministers were removed from office in July 1990 . |
| 21 | Badr al-Din Mahmud ( Kadizade : kadi of Aleppo from 963/1555–6 to 967/1560 ) , also later to become Mufti of Istanbul , and in one specific case , quoted by Ata'i , was overruled by him ; while Molla Muslih al-Din Mustafa ( Circinzade Mustafa ) , appointed muderris/mufti in Bosnasarayi in 965/1557–8 , fought the kadi of Bosnasarayi to a standstill over certain matters , both then making representations to Istanbul and both being removed from office for their pains . " |
| 22 | ( 5 ) if he is removed from office by a resolution duly passed under Section 303 of the Act ; |
| 23 | ( 5 ) if he is removed from office by a resolution duly passed under Section 303 of the Act ; |
| 24 | The Chief Constable of Brighton was dismissed from office by the Brighton Watch Committee without an adequate hearing . |
| 25 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 26 | He was narrowly returned as Prime Minister after the 1987 general election , but was ejected from office in July 1988 after being defeated in a motion of no confidence by Namaliu 's supporters . |
| 27 | This tended to increase the influence of parliament ; and in 1858 , for the first time in British history , a government was driven from office on a foreign policy question . |
| 28 | In the largest union , that of the St Petersburg metal workers , the Menshevik leadership of the early years was swept from office in 1913 . |
| 29 | Ferniehirst was removed from office on English insistence , and gradually calm was restored . |
| 30 | The first secretary of the Azerbaijan CP committee in the Nakhichevan ASSR , Gaidar Isayev , was removed from office on Jan. 3 , ostensibly on " health grounds " but apparently as a consequence of the border incidents . |