Example sentences of "and served as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen strategies were submitted For good measure Axelrod added a fifteenth , called Random , which simply played COOPERATE and DEFECT randomly , and served as a kind of baseline ‘ non-strategy ’ : if a strategy ca n't do better than Random , it must be pretty bad . |
| 2 | Clifford Race volunteered for the army during the First World War and served as a farrier . |
| 3 | Apples became a favourite fruit for the Romans , and they were dried and served as a relish in winter or eaten sour in the summer as refreshment after arduous work . |
| 4 | In 1624 he obtained leave of absence from the University and served as a Member of Parliament . |
| 5 | Palmer was a freeman of the Drapers ' Company by patrimony and served as a member of the court ( 1792–5 ) . |
| 6 | In 1861 he was high sheriff of Surrey and served as a JP . |
| 7 | He was appointed CB in 1870 , and served as a delegate to the International Geodetic Congress in 1883 . |
| 8 | He was instrumental in bringing the London and North Western Railway to Oldham , and served as a director of the company from 1862 to 1867 . |
| 9 | Not until much later was a similar vegetable , spinach , cooked carefully with butter , orange juice and a little nutmeg and served as a side dish with ‘ sippets ’ of toast , without a passing thought as to its efficacy as a regulator of the bowels . |
| 10 | Yet though the African Social Studies Programme suffers from close comparison with its two elder brothers it has nevertheless already influenced practice and served as a forum for international exchange of ideas and can be seen as a contributory factor in the widespread change of emphasis towards study of man in his environment . |
| 11 | John Lloyd paid the subsidies in 1524 and 1544 and served as a juror of the manor court from at least 1528 to 1542 . |
| 12 | He joined the Territorial Army and served as a captain in the 1st Battalion of the Hertfordshire Regiment . |
| 13 | He was a bright boy with a gift for mathematics , and was sent to Gresham College to study engineering , but soon after the outbreak of war in 1914 joined the Royal Flying Corps and served as a flight-lieutenant in No. 73 Squadron in France . |
| 14 | It preceded the building of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 185 1 , and served as an inspiration , if not a model , for it , but is actually superior to it in design . |
| 15 | The others pardoned were two intelligence officials — Duane R. Clarridge , the former head of the CIA 's European Division , who was awaiting trial on charges of having misled Congress [ see also p. 38428 ] , and Alan D. Fiers , a CIA official who had pleaded guilty in 1991 to withholding information from Congress , but who later co-operated with the authorities and served as the prosecution 's chief witness at George 's trial [ see p. 39043 ] . |