Example sentences of "had serve as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , Attlee inherited a highly efficient Whitehall war machine , with a variety and quality of machine-minder unparalleled in the history of the British Civil Service ( though most of the gifted outsiders who had served as wartime temporaries would soon depart ) . |
| 2 | Hnatyshyn , 55 , had served as Minister of Energy , Mines and Resources and as Minister of State for Science and Technology in Joseph Clark 's Cabinet in 1979-80 and as Justice Minister in Mulroney 's Cabinet in 1986-88 , but had lost his parliamentary seat in the November 1988 general election . |
| 3 | Before that he had served as Minister of External Economic Relations and Supply and had been a member of the MPRP central committee since 1976 . |
| 4 | Ung Phan had served as Minister of Communications , Transport and Posts until his arrest in mid-1990 for attempting to establish a new , liberal political party in Cambodia [ see pp. 37598-99 ] . |
| 5 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 6 | Byambasuren , a 48-year-old Soviet-trained economist , had served as Deputy Chair of the Council of Ministers since late 1989 . |
| 7 | Liu , a former Vice-Minister of Finance , had served as Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council since 1990 . |
| 8 | Yu , who had served as deputy director of the GDP since 1989 , had reportedly distanced himself from Yang prior to the congress . |
| 9 | Zuccarelli had served as MRG president since Nov. 21 , 1989 . |
| 10 | He had been a friend and ally of the president for many years and had served as chief of staff when Reagan was governor of California . |
| 11 | One had served as chairman of a local Soviet through these years , with a canny transformation into starosta ( village elder ) when the White Army appeared briefly . |
| 12 | Most of the men carrying the throne had served as army conscripts , and they reacted instinctively to the sound of the explosions . |
| 13 | Bennett , 47 , described as an " abrasive " conservative , had served as Education Secretary within the Reagan administration before being chosen by Bush to become the country 's first " drugs tsar " , a post which did not carry full Cabinet rank . |
| 14 | Anwar , aged 43 , had served as Education Minister since 1986 , and since 1987 had been a vice-president of the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the dominant party in the governing federal National Front . |
| 15 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
| 16 | One man at least was wrongly classed as a tailor , namely Stephen Jenings , who had served as Mayor in 1508 — 9 , and was now the highest assessed citizen at £3,000 ; the same must hold good for other rich tailors , since the craft itself was poorly remunerated . |
| 17 | The former , who had served as mayor of San Francisco , defeated the Republican incumbent John Seymour , who had been appointed by Governor Pete Wilson in 1990 to serve the remainder of his ( Wilson 's ) term . |
| 18 | Along the path of academic and ecclesiastical preferment , Nathaniel Crewe had served as Rector of Lincoln College from 1668–1672 , and afterwards maintained some influence there . |
| 19 | They had been found in the royal palace , where most had served as altar furnishings . |
| 20 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 21 | Sir Robert had served as Governor of the Indian province of Rajputanah for years , and was a fountain of information on Asian affairs . |
| 22 | In Bangkok , where he had served as governor , Chamlong was deeply respected because of what the Financial Times of May 8 described as " his uncompromising piety and idealism " . |