Example sentences of "serve as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child at the Legation I had met officers from the Sudan , Kenya and Somaliland , who were serving as Consuls in the border areas of Abyssinia . |
| 2 | Only the papers by R. Derby and H.J. Kleintjes on acetylenic glycols serving as surfactants in emulsion and dispersion paints which minimise the water-sensitivity of the final coatings ; the paper by P.J. Moles on zirconium derivatives as cross-linking agents ; and the papers on urethane-polymeric thickeners and ionomer dispersions by J.H. Bieleman and by W.D . |
| 3 | Bell towers were important features of most churches , serving as places of refuge , means of raising the alarm and giving notice of events . |
| 4 | These are two of the four main bases used by the 2,500 British troops serving as peacekeepers with the UN Protection Force . |
| 5 | Prince Charles is due to visit two of the four main bases used by the 2,500 British troops serving as peacekeepers with the United Nations Protection Force , arriving this morning at the Divulje barracks near Split on the Croatian coast and travelling on , weather permitting , to a camp known as The Redoubt , near Tomislavgrad in south-west Bosnia . |
| 6 | A great deal of work is done by members of local authorities by serving as representatives of their authorities on outside bodies . |
| 7 | Another obstacle to headmen serving as representatives of the principles behind the legal administration was their own participation in crime . |
| 8 | Licensed dealers are the last places on earth to serve as sanctuaries from such treatment . |
| 9 | They are not intended to serve as illustrations of something more general . |
| 10 | Consequently in 1510 these were bracketed with squires of the body and other court officers , while the 1533 act specifies in addition esquires or gentlemen eligible for knighthood or to serve as knights of the shire . |
| 11 | Members of the House of Lords appear on the Electoral Register for local and European electoral purposes only : they are allowed neither to vote in parliamentary elections nor to serve as Members of Parliament . |
| 12 | Each of the ten " tribe or constituencies chose , by lot , 50 people to serve as members of the council for a year , and those 50 would , within the council , act as a steering and administrative committee for a tenth of the year . |
| 13 | If they are not , they should question their suitability to serve as governors of that school . |
| 14 | along with Terry Snow , have kindly agreed to serve as Chairmen of the Advisory Panels to which I have referred and are currently agreeing the terms of reference and membership of the Panels . |
| 15 | Before modern institutions for extending credit were available , insignia and jewels were well adapted to serve as sureties for loans . |
| 16 | At his suggestion , two soldiers from the Senussi tribe , a local Libyan people some of whom served as auxiliaries to the British Army , were included who could act as guides . |
| 17 | Indian Chettiars controlled most rice imports and served as bankers for the emerging class of Sri Lankan capitalists . |
| 18 | Politically the life of the peasants was very parochial and dominated by the local headmen , the sheikhs and omdas , who served as collaborators of the state . |
| 19 | At least 43 per cent of those who served as directors of the Bank of England between 1694 and 1715 were either Dissenters or from Dissenting backgrounds , whilst persons from the Dissenting interest also figured prominently as holders of Bank stock and as directors of the New East India Company . |
| 20 | The sea and ships , his raw material , were not altered but were enlarged by his vision of life , for which vision they served as examples of larger issues . |
| 21 | Diamonds on the other hand were too hard , and during the Classical and Early Medieval periods could only be mounted as natural crystals , in which guise they served as symbols of hardness and strength , but not yet as signs of conspicuous wealth . |
| 22 | The factions agreed on a compromise under which the Khmer Rouge delegation would initially be based in the SNC 's compound in Phnom Penh , a former government guest house which also served as quarters for some UN officials . |
| 23 | Comprises three limestone caves ( one of which is the longest in Britain ) all of which illustrate how they served as homes for both humans and animals : including the Bone cave , rich in archaeological evidence with details of the Flintsone-like inhabitants dating back to the Bronze Age . |
| 24 | The union discontinued its " social evenings " in 1951 , but carried on holding occasional events or tea-parties which served as reunions for increasing numbers of retired compositors . |
| 25 | In that way the Court was perhaps the institution which most successfully stamped its imprint upon the ECSC , and in so doing built up a body of case law , an authority , and legitimacy that could serve as foundations for the future . |
| 26 | What is worrying is that these countries may serve as reservoirs of infection should any of the richer countries ever get on top of their own VD problem . |
| 27 | Concepts such as these will have to be translated into readily understandable questions , the answers to which can serve as indices of the more abstract and theoretical concepts . |
| 28 | The new President , the Premier , the two Deputy Premiers and the Defence Minister all held seats in the People 's Great Hural which they were required to give up , as it was stipulated that Cabinet post-holders could not concurrently serve as deputies to the assembly . |
| 29 | Garry Watson , in attacking the new pluralism from a Leavisian perspective , offers two exemplary passages by contemporary academic critics which may serve as illustrations of this trend : |
| 30 | Slowly , homosexuality and the ( male ) deviant sex it introduced became yet again a metaphor for ideas of the ‘ private ’ , or the hidden — as pop , once more , concentrated on ever more fragmented ideas about private possibilities — introduced , by way of example , ‘ case histories ’ that could serve as models for this new round of pleasure and fantasy . |