Example sentences of "[noun] preside over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun and scenery contribute to Vorarlberg 's family appeal ( top ) , while a giant Suchard cow presides over the chocolate festival ( left ) |
| 2 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 3 | Noel Edmonds presides over a launch party in London , but the demo machine does n't function all that well . |
| 4 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 5 | The chairman Mr. Liam Curran invited Mr. Andy Heffernan , the President of the IBOA to preside over the meeting . |
| 6 | In place of the major role which workers were demanding in running the factories , Lenin presided over the centralization of economic power and the establishment of managerial structures divorced from the rank and file . |
| 7 | Standing exactly where Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the People 's Republic of China on 1 October 1949 , paramount leader Deng Xiaoping joined other party leaders atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace to preside over a night of fireworks and martial music in Tiananmen Square . |
| 8 | NIGEL Lawson , who as Chancellor presided over the property boom and bust , has finally sold his home after two years on the market . |
| 9 | Inside , the usual bored girl presided over a collection of postcards and tea towels . |
| 10 | While I would not seek to question the decision of the judges of a number of the awards ( although you may note for the record , however , that there were a lot of eyebrows raised in the trade by the comments on and judging of Helpware magazine , which won both contract title of the year and runner-up to best consumer launch of the year in the 1992 Publishing Awards ) , I would like to question the appropriateness of the chairman of the judges presiding over a ceremony where his own company won the most number of awards . |
| 11 | When CNN reported on Nov. 8 that it had obtained tapes of his telephone calls , Noriega 's chief lawyer , Frank Rubino , successfully petitioned District Judge William Hoeveler ( the judge presiding over the case ) for an injunction prohibiting the network from broadcasting any material which violated the confidentiality of the attorney-client relationship . |
| 12 | A seven-member collective leadership of three Muslims , two Croats and two Serbs presided over the republic . |
| 13 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 14 | In his old age , Banks presided over the destruction of these fens , supporting the drainage projects of John Rennie , according to The Farmer 's Magazine of February 1807 , against ‘ a party of uninformed people , headed by a little parson and a magistrate ’ . |
| 15 | The first two Conservative governments presided over an economy which produced ever increasing numbers of unemployed people . |
| 16 | The wealth of diamonds incorporated in her regalia reflected the fact that Catherine presided over a realm that for a short period was the world 's leading producer . |
| 17 | Had some bold prophet told the King that he was one day to preside over a change of Government wearing a Chinese dressing-gown , he would scarcely have believed his ears . |
| 18 | The Duke presided over a county meeting in Lewes in January 1780 , which prepared a petition for ‘ Public Oeconomy ’ . |
| 19 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 20 | On July 16 Fulimori presided over the inauguration of the first " urban militia " , modelled on the rural rondas campesinas or " peasant patrols " [ see pp. 38188 ; 38284 ] . |
| 21 | Following the great betrayal of 1882 , when Gladstone presided over the annexation of Egypt , they could not even rely on the Liberal party to resist the imperialist tide . |
| 22 | The territory has a large measure of self-government , with the Governor presiding over an Executive Council composed of the Chief Minister , the Attorney General and three other ministers drawn from the Legislative Council , which comprises nine elected members , the Speaker and the Attorney General . |
| 23 | The Tsar presides over an assembly made up predominantly of landowners , seen here standing at a respectful distance , and leading members of the Church 's hierarchy , seated at the front |
| 24 | At a crisis AGM in January 1990 , Dundee 's controversial chairman Angus Cook presided over a record deficit of £600,000 . |
| 25 | Gooseneck presided over a table of thirty , one-third of whom were female . |
| 26 | Two years later he became Leader of the House of Commons , and for the last two years of the Labour government presided over the empire of the Department of Health and Social Services . |
| 27 | Two very old ladies presided over the tea and coffee pots ; they were the oldest members of the League , having travelled out to Tollemarche district with their parents in covered wagons before the town itself existed . |
| 28 | With advice from the head teacher and the LEA representative , when present , the governors presiding over a case conference will have to be able to evaluate the options put forward , including alternative education outside the mainstream school system , and make a recommendation . |
| 29 | Above all , Reitern presided over the abolition of tax farming . |
| 30 | Throughout his long reign , Sobhuza presided over the transformation of his country from British protectorate to independent statehood within the Commonwealth . |