Example sentences of "he served as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1650s he served as master of the Clothworkers ' Company and an assistant of the Levant Company . |
| 2 | During the years between 1901 and 1910 he served as commissioner in Nanking and Hangkow and as chief secretary at the inspectorate-general , Peking . |
| 3 | Diplomatic service : After Luxembourg he served as ambassador to Syria and Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 5 | He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Midlothian , and then of the City of Edinburgh , from 1956 to 1984 . |
| 6 | For twenty years he served as second-in-command to his father . |
| 7 | At home he was a staunch supporter of the BDDA which he served as Chairman of the Further Education and Youth Committee for many years , before being elected a Grand Councillor and later awarded a medal of honour . |
| 8 | As a notary , he followed William Courtenay [ q.v. ] , bishop of Hereford ( 1369–75 ) , to London ( 1375–81 ) , where he recorded the controversial ‘ confession ’ of the rebel John Ball [ q.v. ] , and to Canterbury , where he served as registrar of the provincial court , 19 February 1382–18 November 1384 , and thereafter as secretary , trusted adjutant , and friend for life . |
| 9 | Their only child , Sean , was to lead a varied career in which he served as chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army , minister for external affairs of the Irish Republic , and United Nations commissioner for Namibia . |
| 10 | Engholm was described by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as the " political grandson " of former Chancellor Willy Brandt and by the Economist as a follower of the " pragmatic brand of social democracy " espoused by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , under whom he served as Education Minister until 1982 . |
| 11 | During Richard II 's two Irish expeditions ( 1394–5 and 1399 ) , he served as attorney in England for many leading participants . |
| 12 | Despite his aspirations to poetry , he became better-known as a prose writer in his minutes and despatches as a statesman , for ‘ Owen Meredith ’ , better known to history as Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton , first Earl of Lytton ( 1831–91 ) , became a distinguished diplomat , the climax of his career coming in 1876–80 when he served as Viceroy of India and in that capacity proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress at Delhi in 1877 . |
| 13 | A Bundestag member from 1949 to 1983 , during the CDU/CSU/SPD " grand coalition " ( 1966-69 ) he served as Minister for All-German Affairs . |
| 14 | After his ordination in 1740 he served as curate at Llandeilo Abercywyn , but he could not resist the urge to preach in the Methodist way far outside his curacy , a practice Jones severely criticized : ‘ it is the cry of the crowd that he will be governed by . ’ |
| 15 | Appointed consul-general in Madrid in 1787 , he served as chargé d'affaires before leaving Spain in 1796 . |
| 16 | There his reputation as an administrator and expository bibliographer increased with the publication of reports and papers on the library and its educational role , and with his contributions to the south Wales press , the Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society , which he served as treasurer ( 1910–24 ) , and Y Cymmrodor . |
| 17 | He served as county captain in the 1960s and led Mickleover , for whom the was this year 's president , in 1954 and 1956 . |
| 18 | In 1662–3 he served as lord mayor of London . |
| 19 | In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and later , from 1976 to 1977 , he served as President of the Cambrian Archaelogical Association . |
| 20 | For many years , he served as President of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf , up to his death in 1954 . |
| 21 | He served as president of the Library Association in 1954 . |
| 22 | In 1880–1 he served as president of the Institution . |
| 23 | He served as president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland from 1984 to 1985 . |
| 24 | The character of X. Trapnel , for which he served as model , in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 12 vols. , 1951–75 ) gives an impression of the persona he created for himself . |
| 25 | He was Agent in Castlebar , 1941–1946 and he served as Agent in Navan from 26th June 1946 , when he was appointed on a salary of £640 per annum , until his retirement on his 65th birthday , 1st February 1952 . |
| 26 | For 15 years he served as warehouse foreman before stepping down from that position to take responsibility of the new pre-mix plant . |
| 27 | That he had a thumb in many pies was undeniable : he served as sheriff in both Surrey and Sussex and had been appointed to head a commission examining the revenues of the confiscated estates of George Duke of Clarence , the king 's brother . |
| 28 | For thirty-four years he served as missioner and , finally , as Chaplain Superintendent with the Royal Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb , the London mission commonly known as RADD . |
| 29 | A Liberal , he served as MP for Yorkshire from 1826 to 1830 . |
| 30 | In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands . |