Example sentences of "[verb] served " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the later years of the Eighties a series of events and episodes has served to direct the attention of British readers to the issue of authorship and its autobiographical character or constituent . |
| 2 | Can you say that your drama training has served you well ? |
| 3 | On certain routes Speedlink has served BR and its customers well , with many trunk trains running to capacity ; but the economics of running three- or fourwagon feeder services at the periphery of the network have remained questionable . |
| 4 | The current architectural debate has served to polarise popular opinion on modern architecture . |
| 5 | I feel very strongly that a man like Cram , who has served his country very well in the past and won a host of medals , deserves more loyalty . |
| 6 | From a family of fish merchants , he has served on Billingsgate committees and all but despairs of ‘ them ever getting on with the real business of selling fish ’ . |
| 7 | There are those who believe passionately that one only appreciates what one has paid for oneself , while there are others who believe , like your higher education correspondent Ngaio Crequer , that the public funding of higher education has served a whole generation well and should be allowed to continue to do so in future . |
| 8 | Continuity has served its purpose . |
| 9 | Sam has served the Stanley Branch for more than 30 years , filling such positions as Branch Secretary , Branch Treasurer , Membership Secretary and Entertainment Officer . |
| 10 | Whereas Haslam has found that a detached outside perspective has proved to be valuable in several of the companies he has served as a board member , his early intimate knowledge of the coal industry was equally beneficial when he was asked to become chairman of British Coal , bringing his career full circle . |
| 11 | At the gatehouse the milk float arrives with the daily delivery and Tim Tyier , the milkman who has served the Centre for many years , starts his rounds . |
| 12 | he has served in Berlin for three years . |
| 13 | Painting throughout its history has served many different purposes , has been flat and has used perspective , has been framed and has been left borderless , has been explicit and has been mysterious . |
| 14 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance comittee . |
| 15 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance committee . |
| 16 | Mr Nicholas Winterton , MP for Macclesfield , has served notice he intends not to support the NHS bill at its second reading on Monday night . |
| 17 | Mr Hurd himself is mildly pro-Arab , but the key Arabists are the head of the diplomatic service , Sir Patrick Wright ( who has served in Beirut , Cairo , Damascus and Jeddah ) , and David Gore-Booth , head of the Middle East desk . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're Bebe 's kids ! ’ adds Hurricane , who has served time as the Beastie Boys ' DJ . |
| 19 | Mine has served me well for many years . |
| 20 | I have included here a planning chart for small conferences which has served as a basis for hundreds of other charts I 've used over the years . |
| 21 | ‘ The blokes prefer the night watch — they do n't get mucked about so much , ’ says Senior Hand Ted Temple , who has served at Soho for more than 20 years . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ It is more important than the general election itself that we maintain a constitution that has served us well for generations , and ought not to be lightly tampered with for party political purposes in the midst of the general election . ’ |
| 23 | Geoff Allen , who has served Northampton as player and official for 30 years , said : ‘ What does stick in the throat is that Shelford , who has made our leading players better players , will probably have to sit on his backside while apparently some other overseas players can come and go as they please . ’ |
| 24 | Syria 's response that it ‘ can not control what goes on in the Bekaa ’ and that Turkey ‘ should first try to solve the Kurdish problem within its own borders ’ has served only to confirm Turkish suspicions about Syrian intentions . |
| 25 | He is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill and has served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr Nicholas Ridley and Mr John Gummer . |
| 26 | Following the hearing , Mr Scott Vendrely , 29 , a military policeman who has served in Britain since 1987 , faces the prospect of paying the outstanding £538 bill for two years ' poll tax for his British wife Stephanie . |
| 27 | We believe strongly that we should go on working together in full partnership in a Union that has served every part of the United Kingdom well . |
| 28 | CREDIT FACULTIES : The Letter of Credit has served us well . |
| 29 | THE LETTER OF CREDIT HAS SERVED US WELL |
| 30 | Above all , Westminster enjoys a very high degree of support and interest among British voters , and it thus preserves the authority of the political system as a whole : ‘ The extent to which Parliament has served to maintain support for the political system constitutes one of the most fascinating aspects of the institution in the British political system , . |