Example sentences of "resign [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From what you 've said I assume you did n't resign for my-sake . |
| 2 | David Coleridge announced that he will resign as chairman of Lloyd 's at the end of the year . |
| 3 | Erm , and it was so , it 's obviously as good as it was , you know , I think you could resign as chairman , if actually at all , so . |
| 4 | He announced that he would resign as Minister of Foreign Economic Relations in the new government . |
| 5 | Since the beginning of this year Mr Chatichai Choonhavan 's coalition government has been agonising over whether General Chaovalit Yongchaiyudh will resign as commander-in-chief of Thailand 's armed forces . |
| 6 | Labour 's defeat led Neil Kinnock on April 13 to announce that he would resign as party leader as soon as practicable ; Roy Hattersley would also stand down as deputy leader . |
| 7 | He had let it be known that he would resign as faction leader and as a member of the Diet if he was publicly prosecuted in connection with the Sagawa Kyubin scandal . |
| 8 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
| 9 | Early on the morning of Dec. 19 Hawke announced that , at a meeting of the ALP caucus later that day , he would resign as leader and offer himself for immediate re-election to the post . |
| 10 | However , on April 7 Heng Samrin reportedly announced that he would not resign as Chair . |
| 11 | On July 27 David Coleridge announced that he would resign as chair of Lloyd 's at the end of 1992 . |
| 12 | A Yorkshire Post reader suggested that the King should resign as patron of the Football Association . |
| 13 | Teenager Mark Limbert has also resigned for City along with Blackburn teenagers Ian Berry and Lee Moss whose signings Barrow clinched last week . |
| 14 | Share prices rose again in mid-January after it was announced that John Kerridge , chairman of Fisons , had resigned for health reasons . |
| 15 | Abu Bakar Kamara , the Second Vice-President , was reported to have resigned for health reasons , being replaced by John Bandala Dauda , hitherto Minister of Trade . |
| 16 | Hans-Jurgen Schulz , the FDP Economy Minister for Thuringia , resigned for health reasons and was replaced by Jurgen Bohn . |
| 17 | Ernesto Leal was promoted to Foreign Minister , replacing Enrique Dreyfus Morales who had resigned for health reasons . |
| 18 | On Nov. 15 two ministers , Eldrid Nordboe and Matz Sandman , resigned for family reasons . |
| 19 | The MP , David Mellor , has resigned as Heritage Secretary . |
| 20 | The party 's deputy leader , Donald McKinnon , immediately resigned as defence spokesperson in protest over the volte face . |
| 21 | Gerhard Stoltenberg , 63 , resigned as Defence Minister on March 31 . |
| 22 | Finally , June announced that Beryl Smith had resigned as Chairman of the Training Committee to take some sabbatical leave . |
| 23 | Richard Lines , executive chairman of chemicals company ITM , has resigned as chairman of Teesside Polytechnic . |
| 24 | CHRISTOPHER Heath , once the UK 's highest paid businessman , has resigned as chairman of Baring Securities , which he founded . |
| 25 | In late December , the leader of the Democrat Party ( one component of the ruling six-party coalition ) , Bichai Rattakul , had resigned as Deputy Prime Minister [ see p. 37121 ] following the rejection of his request for a Cabinet review of Thamrong 's appointment . |
| 26 | On Feb. 23 , 1990 , D. P. Vijandran , the MIC secretary-general , resigned as Deputy Speaker of the federal House of Representatives following allegations in December 1989 that he had appeared in pornographic films . |
| 27 | In June 1990 Gen. Chaovalit , the former Army C.-in-C. , had resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister after serving less than three months in the Cabinet [ see p. 37532 ] . |
| 28 | In June 1990 Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , the former Army C.-in-C. , resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister after a dispute with Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office [ see p. 37532 ] . |
| 29 | Spanish press comment detected in the handling of the affair an ongoing struggle between Prime Minister and PSOE secretary-general Felipe González and supporters of Alfonso Guerra , who had resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in January 1991 but continued as PSOE deputy secretary-general [ see p. 37968 ] . |
| 30 | ROGER MILLWARD last night resigned as coach of Halifax by mutual agreement with the club . |