Example sentences of "[noun] preside over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 2 | At Christie 's , Noel Annesley presided over a satisfactory auction with his customary skill , a failing voice enhancing , rather than diminishing , his dry humour which maintained the momentum of the sale . |
| 3 | Dennis presides over the walled garden , which supplies the kitchens at Highgrove and Kensington Palace and grows all the weird and wonderful varieties that the Prince acquires and delights in surprising his guests with . |
| 4 | During the following months five judges presided over a new series of perambulations in the counties of Northampton , Huntingdon , Rutland , Oxford and Surrey . |
| 5 | When Senegal achieved self-government in 1958 , and full independence in 1960 , Senghor presided over a one-party state but one in which public debate was more widespread than in most of Africa . |
| 6 | Throughout the remainder of the 1650s , successive governments presided over a wide diversity of religious practice ; large numbers of English men and women continued to frequent only their parish churches , many worshipped solely in gathered congregations of Independents , Baptists , and Quakers , and many more regularly attended both sectarian and parish worship . |
| 7 | Twiceover Micky will be there , for I know he likes it , leaving it until tomorrow night to preside over the first night of The Hamburg Ballet , one of the great ballet companies of the world , which he has sold his soul and what else only his God knows to cajole to Belfast , its first-ever visit to these islands . |
| 8 | After the disruptions of 1792-9 Rey presided over the artistic re-establishment of the Opéra . |
| 9 | Reassurance is another matter , except at the level where all great art reassures ; for a spirit of slippage presides over The Possessed . |
| 10 | In Trefusis 's office , the governor presided over a round-table discussion , with Dr Groome , Juliet , a silent official from the Department of Conscription , and an apparently lifeless andrew head to represent Yggdrasil . |
| 11 | The receptionist presided over a small office on the twenty-second floor of the United Nations Building , its unmarked door locked at all times and only accessible to authorized personnel . |
| 12 | The meal was hardly over when Mr Heath flew to Sunningdale by helicopter to preside over the last stage of the conference on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | A little temple presided over a sloping hillside with a prospect of open fields and river lined with reeds and willows . |
| 14 | But he is a man presiding over a collapsing economy and a discredited political system . |
| 15 | He talked about St. Paulinus and St. Aidan and visited Whitby where — all those years ago — St. Hilda presided over a double monastery of men and women . |
| 16 | JOHN Major presided over a special Downing Street summit of ministers last night to thrash out a solution to the Government 's deadlock over the pit closure programme . |
| 17 | The shogun presided over a military administration known as a Bakufu , but there was considerable diffusion of regional power to local warrior-lords . |
| 18 | Despite opposition to the duality of his role and criticism of his creating a judgeship for his brother-in-law , Douglas presided over the steady growth of company and colony . |
| 19 | As Grand Master , the Duke of Kent presides over the largest secret society in England and Wales with an estimated 600,000 , all male , members . |
| 20 | Most of the newer gravestones presided over a neat granite-edged rectangle packed with green crystal chips . |
| 21 | They probably reached George Burnett later that day at Huntspill , where his father 's Georgian house stood at a respectable distance from the busy turnpike , with a large sundial presiding over the front door . |
| 22 | He strongly opposed the orthodox post-colonial constitution proposed by the British government , in which he was assigned the role of constitutional monarch presiding over a Westminster-style parliament . |
| 23 | Still less can we be true citizens if that parliamentary will is in practice the will of a Prime Minister presiding over a cowed Cabinet and protected by an impregnable parliamentary majority . |
| 24 | If , in a sense , the Great Mother presides over the physical act of childbirth , then it is wise to submit to her demands during pregnancy , birth and the infancy of the child . |
| 25 | That most glamorous of all the angels of the hearth , who had come in her little pillbox hat to preside over the purest and most gracious of all houses , the White House . |