Example sentences of "served as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1939 he joined the Ministry of Home Security , and served as private secretary to three Lords President of the Council in succession — Sir John Anderson , Clement Attlee and Lord Woolton . |
| 2 | It is a testament to Butler 's skill that he served as Private Secretary to both Edward Heath and Harold Wilson and , even more impressively , stayed the course as Principal Private Secretary under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 3 | From 1972 he was also a dancing master and served as principal teacher until his final illness in 1991 . |
| 4 | Neither of the kings whom Walpole served as Prime Minister was firmly seated at the centre of political power in the way their predecessors had been . |
| 5 | Trovoada , a 54-year-old lawyer ( whose name was previously given as Trouvoada ) , served as Prime Minister from 1975 to 1979 , but was imprisoned for 21 months after a quarrel with Pinto da Costa , who subsequently allowed him to leave the country in 1981 . |
| 6 | Ahti Karjalainen , who served as Prime Minister in 1962-63 [ see p. 18775 ] and in 1970-71 [ see p. 24111 ] , and in various ministerial capacities including three terms as Foreign Minister between 1960 and 1975 , died on Sept. 9 , 1990 , at the age of 67 . |
| 7 | Pindling , who served as Prime Minister for 25 years , had led the first black government and in 1967 broke the power of the Bay Street Boys , the white colonial merchants who dominated the economy and ran the islands like a private club . |
| 8 | In 1975 he led the party to a crushing electoral victory and , thereafter , served as Prime Minister until 1984 when he called a sudden election and was defeated by the Labour Party . |
| 9 | Nicholas served as spiritual director not only to the members of the family , but to an increasing circle of friends and relations who sought his advice by correspondence . |
| 10 | ‘ The future risks are tremendous , ’ said Mr John Roberts , a Panama expert who served as general counsel on the Senate Armed Services Committee when the Panama Canal treaties were ratified in 1978 . |
| 11 | The venture is funded entirely by its board of directors , which includes Messrs Brown and Morse , along with Anthony S. Harrington , a Washington attorney who served as general counsel for the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign , and US Senator Terry Sanford , formerly North Carolina 's governor and president of Duke University . |
| 12 | He served as Decorative Artist to the Pavilion for forty-six years . |
| 13 | Ideal served as hot relish with beefburgers or sausages . |
| 14 | From 1965 to 1970 Rowiecki also served as musical director of the Theatr Wielki , Warsaw 's huge opera and ballet theatre , and presided over the opening performance of the reconstructed building in 1965 , conducting Moniuszko 's Straszny Dwor ( ' The Haunted House' , a characteristically Polish mix of folklore and Bellinian melody ) . |
| 15 | In the Home Office , he had demonstrated broadly conservative views on crime , drugs , and racial issues , not surprisingly so perhaps for one who served as parliamentary spokesman for the Police Federation . |
| 16 | In 1757 , like his father before him , he served as high sheriff of Hampshire . |
| 17 | The Photographic Society , of which he was a promoter , was formed in 1853 , and Fenton served as honorary secretary until 1856 . |
| 18 | Malins also served as honorary secretary ( and later chairman ) of the National Temperance Federation and as a Worcestershire county councillor . |
| 19 | First elected to the lower house of the Diet in 1958 , Abe had been Chief Cabinet Secretary in 1977 and , after failing to win the party leadership in 1982 , he served as Foreign Minister between 1982 and 1986 . |
| 20 | He first held ministerial office in 1932 , served as Foreign Secretary three times and was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957 . |
| 21 | He served as architectural tutor to King George III when the latter was Prince of Wales and designed the State Coach in which one day the current Prince of Wales will ride from the Abbey as King Charles III . |
| 22 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 23 | In comments following release of the budget , the president of the National Academy of Sciences , Frank Press , who served as presidential science adviser under Jimmy Carter , hailed the budget as ‘ very innovative ’ and ‘ highly laudable ’ . |