Example sentences of "[coord] preside over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1955 , Floirat bought the ailing radio station Europe 1 and presided over the company for 30 years , transforming it into one of the country 's most popular stations . |
| 2 | From 1965 to 1970 Rowiecki also served as musical director of the Theatr Wielki , Warsaw 's huge opera and ballet theatre , and presided over the opening performance of the reconstructed building in 1965 , conducting Moniuszko 's Straszny Dwor ( ' The Haunted House' , a characteristically Polish mix of folklore and Bellinian melody ) . |
| 3 | Izanami henceforth became the Earth Mother , the prime goddess of Shinto , and presided over the Underworld . |
| 4 | The President appoints and presides over the Council of Ministers . |
| 5 | The President appoints and presides over the Council of Ministers . |
| 6 | The President , assisted by two Vice-Presidents ( or , in extraordinary circumstances , one Vice-President ) appoints and presides over the Cabinet . |
| 7 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |
| 8 | That 's the season when coloured hollies or laurels which may have spent most of the summer masked by the bright herbaceous flowers in the foreground , take centre stage and preside over the border . |