Example sentences of "preside [prep] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bar was against the far wall , plentifully stocked and presided over by a bleached blonde in a white beaded sweater . |
| 2 | The inquest was local , held in the parish hall and presided over by a doctor from the big resort town further down the lake . |
| 3 | When the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament emerged from the discussions that followed Priestley 's article , it was chaired by a Canon of St Paul 's , the gaunt non-conformist cleric John Collins , and presided over by the foremost sceptic and humanist of the day , Bertrand Russell . |
| 4 | The Central Junta has a bad reputation ; a clumsy body of thirty-five presided over by the aged Floridablanca , President of the Junta of Murcia , its pretensions as a sovereign body with the title ‘ Majesty ’ were slightly ridiculous . |
| 5 | The goodwill and excellent relations that Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell have built up with the authorities in Gran Canaria seem to be in the process of being matched in St Lucia : more and better facilities were planned for Rodney Bay Marina , parties were organised and funded , and a special ARC committee to deal with such things as restoring extinguished navigation lights and easing participants through customs formalities was set up and presided over by the Prime Minister of St Lucia . |
| 6 | The Republic of Maldives ( called the Maldive Islands until 1969 ) has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President and a 48-member Citizens ' Assembly ( Majilis ) , 40 of whose members are elected for five years and the remaining eight appointed by the President . |
| 7 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 8 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 9 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 10 | It has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 11 | But Mr Andriessen conceded that the 18-country EES would be presided over by a council of ministers ‘ shaping decisions by consensus ’ . |
| 12 | Coal and Power called for an integrated and rationalized scheme for power , a follow up to the Liberal Manifesto of 1923 which suggested that coal and power supplies should be placed under the control of a public board presided over by a minister . |
| 13 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 14 | Yet the report of the Enquiry ( presided over by a QC ) set up by the Inner London Education Authority to resolve the dispute had the effect of fuelling a campaign for educational retrenchment . |
| 15 | But power presided over by a benevolent father figure whose only motive was to do his best for humanity . |
| 16 | I detest Federico Jiménez Losantos , who confuses ‘ Guernica ’ with Pelé the footballer , and talks about it being ‘ signed up ’ to turn the Reina Sofía into a swollen-headed museum presided over by a sinister fetish . |
| 17 | Then the pressure of exchange speculation was diverted against sterling , vulnerable as a currency presided over by a Labour Government with budgetary troubles . |
| 18 | Thus arises the typical conglomerate of , say , twenty or thirty unrelated businesses presided over by a single head office which , however , bears ultimate responsibility for their strategic decision-making . |
| 19 | Unlike the courts previously considered , which are presided over by a sole judge , the industrial tribunal is presided over by a legally qualified chairperson and two lay persons ( 'wing men' ) . |
| 20 | Unlike the courts previously considered , which are presided over by a sole judge , the industrial tribunal is presided over by a legally qualified chairperson and two lay persons ( 'wing men' ) . |
| 21 | The Crown Court is presided over by a judge or a recorder and it hears the more serious criminal cases . |
| 22 | It was self-service , presided over by a bored cashier . |
| 23 | Its name also implies that the mineral springs , which have continued in use until now , were once presided over by a patron deity called Arnemetia , goddess of the sacred grove . |
| 24 | In 1982 the NMR appointed an interim President and a predominantly civilian Council of Ministers ( presided over by a Prime Minister ) . |
| 25 | It was presided over by an Egyptian suffragi known as Mo , who was a mixture of hall porter , diplomat , negotiator and general factotum . |
| 26 | All this was presided over by an all-seeing God . |
| 27 | The main owner of such schools is usually and indirectly the Church of Ireland , and current expenditure and salaries are provided by the state , with the board of governors presided over by the local minister . |
| 28 | The fifteenth-century Germans were themselves building on earlier traditions of Germania to create , despite appalling practical difficulties , the idea of the deutscher Nation , presided over by the Holy Roman Emperor — Teutscher Kaiser , as he was described by the chronicler Hartmann Schedel in 1492 . |
| 29 | At no time did England lack a government which could give direction to religious affairs , whether that of Henry VIII , Mary and Elizabeth , or the minority government of Edward VI , presided over by the exceedingly tough Somerset and Northumberland . |
| 30 | At one end of the Square , presided over by the statue of Beethoven , a group of Vietnamese were staging an anti-communist demonstration complete with public address system . |