Example sentences of "serve as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following his father 's death in 1795 Henry was taken to Chichester before serving as a cadet in the Royal Corps of Military Surveyors and Draftsmen at the Tower of London . |
| 2 | She had been married only four years when her husband was murdered while serving as a member of the Canadian peacekeeping mission in Cyprus . |
| 3 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1879 , and the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1881 , serving as a member of the council of the latter in 1894 . |
| 4 | This is a new community facility which , whilst serving as a church , also offers a purpose built nursery and a training room . |
| 5 | The recipient of the manor became the lord of this land and not only farmed directly some of the land within it ( the demesne ) but also held rights over the rest of the land : for example , the manorial lord administered justice within the manor , in return , the grantor of the manor received certain services from the manorial lord , such as the latter 's serving as a knight in the former 's military contingent as or when necessary . |
| 6 | Private Richard Downs , 19 , said he was serving as a bar steward in the officers ' mess of the First Battalion Duke of Wellington 's Regiment on election night — April 9 . |
| 7 | His mother was still alive , Lavinia , his younger sister by ten years , was married to a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and herself serving as a nurse . |
| 8 | Africa is just serving as a mirror for the West 's new ideologies . |
| 9 | I 'm serving as a curate in a large south London parish , St Sylvester 's Betterhouse . ’ |
| 10 | Nowadays , it is rather more garish , a popular halt for coaches , but nothing can detract from the superb views over the rocky coast and lovely sands , the road serving as a promenade . |
| 11 | Couvelaire started his business 25 years ago with a Cessna 182 and a Comanche after serving as a pilot in the French Air Force during the Algerian war . |
| 12 | I further submit that the features of the doctrine of consent which I have identified , so far from facilitating the patient 's self-determination , are in fact capable of serving as a blueprint for making considerable inroads into , and even for disregarding altogether , the need for consent . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) The bracketing of a " higher level " phrase or episode of interaction is commonly involved , the new footing having a liminal role , serving as a buffer between two more substantially sustained episodes . |
| 14 | ‘ Active citizenship ’ , according to the Conservative view , should include taking responsibility in the community through activities such as serving as a school governor or a magistrate , running Neighbourhood Watch schemes , and doing voluntary work of various sorts . |
| 15 | In 1648 he was serving as a commissioner for the militia and for the collection of tax arrears in London , by which time he had also already branched out into commerce , being recorded as a shipowner . |
| 16 | After serving as a commissioner of trade between 1668 and 1669 , he was appointed assistant secretary of the council of foreign plantations in 1670 , and in September 1672 he was promoted to the post of secretary and treasurer of the council of trade and foreign plantations , under the presidency of his patron , Anthony Ashley Cooper , first Earl of Shaftesbury [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | By 1830 Duncan was in medical practice in Liverpool , also serving as a physician at the Central and North Dispensaries . |
| 18 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 19 | ‘ The club is unique , and we want to see it develop so that it compares with the Queen 's Rugby Club , that is serving as a platform to provide some of the country 's top players . |
| 20 | , Edwin William ( 1876–1957 ) , missionary and anthropologist , was born 7 September 1876 in Aliwal North , Cape Colony , where his father , the Revd John Smith ( later president of the Primitive Methodist Church ) was serving as a missionary . |
| 21 | After serving as a representative of the British Canoe Union on the Central Council of Physical Recreation , the largest federation of sport and recreation in the world , in 19877 he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee . |
| 22 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |
| 23 | Although not accused of fraud , Bush was charged by federal regulators with having had a conflict of interest while serving as a director of Silverado . |
| 24 | One advantage of setting up these centres is that they may help a two-way flow of ideas for efficient technology , possibly serving as a model for changes to Western society . |
| 25 | The challenge to make the 88000-based systems a binary-compatible standard across a wide range of high-volume , multi-vendor platforms has largely failed , despite the 88open binary compatibility standard , to which DG heavily contributed , serving as a model for how it should be done . |
| 26 | In fact , dna acts as the chemical basis for heredity , serving as a template for its own replication and for instructing the sequence of amino acids and proteins . |
| 27 | She had the feeling that this morning 's events would have been faithfully reported by Marie and she sincerely hoped that the girl did not add to her earnings by serving as a waitress here . |
| 28 | As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city . |
| 29 | Champions , in fact , help legitimize the idea originator , serving as a bridge , or a translator between the sometimes unconventional idea originator ( ideator or inventor ) and the more traditional organization . |
| 30 | The immediate past does , of course , have the attraction of serving as a bridge between present day processes and their fossilized counterparts . |