Example sentences of "serve [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aside from having the industry 's longest serving chairman , BMW today is the one big car company in the world without any cross shareholdings or collaborative links with other companies , fiercely guarding its independence . |
| 2 | And lived to Serve Anothair ? |
| 3 | ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began . |
| 4 | The Jakarta operation is geared up to serve protection coatings , marine , packaging and speciality industrial end-users . |
| 5 | Name the American , a former Wimbledon Champion , new retired from competitive play and expecting her first child , who is one of the company 's longest serving contract players ? |
| 6 | Today , Mr Garner is the longest serving board member , and the only one to see TI through both recessions . |
| 7 | Orlando Ramón Agosti , a member of the ruling military junta in 1976-79 , was released from prison in May 1989 after serving part of a 4@1/2-year sentence imposed in December 1985 for torture and robbery committed during the dirty war [ see p. 34667 ] . |
| 8 | Taking Primary Schools as a whole the curriculum is probably wide enough to serve curriculum needs … |
| 9 | More recently some Universities and Polytechnics developed courses for ethnic minorities — but these when they were focused on developing multilingual skills were not intended to lead to a specialism in minority languages but simply to serve support strategies which fall far short of teaching the languages as such . |
| 10 | Although no extraneous gas is used , CAMRA also frowns on the breather as interfering with the natural process of maturing and serving cask beer . |
| 11 | Electric pumps , either of the simple free flow type or the metered pump which delivers exact half pints , are a perfectly acceptable method of serving cask beer but they can be confused with the pressurised founts used to dispense keg beers . |
| 12 | While handpumps are now widespread in Scotland , as Fact Sheet 3 shows , the traditional method of serving cask beer in Scotland is the tall fount primed by air pressure . |
| 13 | Electrical and/or mechanical ancillary equipment serving boiler and pressure plant is excluded , unless specifically described in the plant schedule i.e. oil burner unit would not be covered unless the description was ‘ heating boiler and associated oil burner unit ’ . |
| 14 | Contempt of Court — Committal order — Civil contempt — Failure to serve committal orders on contemnors in compliance with proper procedures — Whether irregularity invalidating committals — Whether orders to be set aside — Administration of Justice Act 1960 ( 8 & 9 Eliz. 2 , c. 65 ) , s. 13(3)County Court Rules 1981 ( S.I . |
| 15 | Route 30 continued to serve West Croydon with trams and Tamworth Road now had both trams and trolleybuses , the trams using the trolleybus positive wires . |
| 16 | The latter was a compact compartment equipped with a stainless steel sink , large slow combustion cooking range , ample hot water , commodious cupboard accommodation , hinged flap table , serving hatch to the two adjoining messrooms and meat safes . |
| 17 | We had an order to supply and fix a mahogany serving hatch in Regency style , with Flemish patterned glass , prior to the customer redecorating . |
| 18 | From left , standing , ( 33 years at Burston makes the longest serving driver ) ; ( newest recruit ) ; ex Eagle Mill ; ( not actually a driver at all ) . |
| 19 | A tenancy granted for a term of years certain of which not less than three years remain unexpired is an owner 's interest for the purpose of serving blight notices ( Town and Country Planning Act 1990 , s168 ) . |
| 20 | The second shift arrives at 3pm to serve tea and Christmas cake before making the final preparations for the grand supper at 6pm . |
| 21 | Such was the organisers ' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life , they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish . |
| 22 | There was no-one else there , just a maid , whom Artemis could n't remember ever seeing before , waiting to serve tea . |
| 23 | I felt very honoured to be chosen to serve tea to the Queen and had practised my curtseys all week . |
| 24 | The GC was completely lifted as far north as Duckmanton North Junction , leaving a single track in use to serve Arkwright colliery via the LD & EC curves . |
| 25 | The jet lines up at the tanker 's serving carriage and drives the hose back in to open a valve . |
| 26 | Coun Jeff Featherstone said he and his two-year-old daughter Hannah had encountered ‘ absolutely appalling ’ behaviour on a bus serving Hallgarth School , Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | This was , it seems , partly with the rather Machiavellian intention of forcing Conservative MPs to unite behind a Prime Minister whose continuance in office was considered best to serve Labour 's prospects of victory at the next election . |
| 28 | LOUTH pensioner and long serving employee , known to his friends as , celebrated his 80th birthday with a surprise party thrown for him by his family and friends . |
| 29 | Walker Trophy , named after one of Stoddards late Directors , whose son Mr. Tom Walker , is the longest serving employee in the Company . |
| 30 | It was fifty years ago on March 12 , that Tom Walker , Stoddard 's longest serving employee , joined the company . |