Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from office [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All but one of the ex-PUWP ministers were removed from office in July 1990 . |
| 5 | The Chief Constable of Brighton was dismissed from office by the Brighton Watch Committee without an adequate hearing . |
| 6 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the largest union , that of the St Petersburg metal workers , the Menshevik leadership of the early years was swept from office in 1913 . |
| 10 | Ferniehirst was removed from office on English insistence , and gradually calm was restored . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At Andover in 1489 Sir Nicholas Lisle , hereditary warden of Chute Forest , was removed from office for unlawfully killing a score of deer , and for numerous offences relating to the forest covert and pastures ; he was , however , able to recover his office in 1500 on payment of a fine . |
| 13 | Richard Vines was its librarian , but he was removed from office after six years and , after he had openly burned his certificate of membership of the society , he was voted to be a non-member . |
| 14 | On Aug. 15 , 1990 , Martin Kirchner , general secretary of the CDU , was suspended from office as a result of allegations that he had been one of the most senior paid informers of the Stasi . |
| 15 | Collor , who took office in March 1990 promising to root out corrupt practices in government , was suspended from office for six months , during which time he was to stand trial for impeachment before the Senate , the upper house , on corruption charges . |