Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] served as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They included Nai Khin Maung , who had served as a member of the central executive committee of the Mon National League for Democracy , held since October 1991 . |
| 2 | , William Miller ( 1885–1974 ) , historian , was born in Aberdeen 1 October 1885 , the youngest child in the family of three sons and four daughters of the Revd John Macmillan , Scottish Free Church minister and schoolmaster , who had served as a missionary in India , and his wife Elizabeth Caid Lindsay . |
| 3 | One highly motivated recruit Stirling did manage to persuade to join him was Fitzroy Maclean , who had served as a diplomat in Russia before the war . |
| 4 | In the past Jeffries , who had served as a consultant to the New York state Department of Education during its efforts to revise the high school syllabus , had attracted controversy by asserting that blacks — " sun people " — were genetically superior to whites — " ice people " — because of the greater quantity of the pigment melanin to be found in blacks . |
| 5 | This I discussed at once with my Scoutmaster , who had served as an officer in the Gordons during the war and was now a schoolmaster . |
| 6 | The British ambassador in Paris , John Dalrymple , second Earl of Stair , a former general who had served as an ADC to Marlborough , soon revealed a natural talent for espionage . |