Example sentences of "[verb] over by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 6 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 7 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 8 | It has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 14 | The humble cottages are presided over by the tower of the venerable church of St Andrew , founded in the twelfth century but rebuilt and restored since with some sacrifice of its earlier features . |
| 15 | The ceremony took place on Saturday 13 June 1953 at 2.30 pm and was presided over by the Reverend Colin Roberts , President of the Conference . |
| 16 | On Whitsun eve , 1960 , the Central Theological Commission was set up to prepare the Council ; subject to it were ten sub-commissions presided over by the heads of the corresponding Roman dicasteries . |
| 17 | Last year 's enormously successful ‘ Starter 's Corner ’ is being repeated , presided over by the Contemporary Art Society , who will be stressing the accessibility and affordability of contemporary art with minimum prices at £150 . |
| 18 | Houses the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland , presided over by the Lord High Commissioner , representing Her Majesty the Queen . |
| 19 | A rigid hierarchy of hereditary , occupation-related caste was presided over by the warrior ( bushi ) or samurai élite . |
| 20 | Western traders allowed into Japan were to be restricted to foreign settlements and other prescribed areas , but were to have the benefits of extraterritoriality , i.e. they were not to be subject to the laws of Japan , but any misdemeanour or problem ( including those that concerned Japanese ) was to be dealt with by a court presided over by the consul of the country of the national concerned . |
| 21 | Vital decisions in the definition and the implementation of space policy were taken by inter-ministerial meetings presided over by the Prime Minister or the President ; a public body , the CNES , exercised the central and unified control desired by the state . |
| 22 | She recognized that this feeling was in part a hangover from her schooldays , when her occasional invitations to friends had invariably resulted in sessions of strained discomfort , presided over by the disapprobation , however concealed , of her mother ; she had no precedent for successful hospitality . |
| 23 | " A mixed company sat down to tea … presided over by the Father [ of the chapel ] -the Mother was too busy waiting on the guests to sit down , much less preside . " |
| 24 | The Anniversary was marked by a luncheon given in the Hallam Hall on 18th July 1962 , presided over by the new Chairman , Lt. Col. J.A . |
| 25 | These authorities are presided over by the National Water Council , set up at the same time to be a central co-ordinating body to give advice on major matters of policy ( Times , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Its successor , the conservative Regency of Five ( presided over by the Bishop of Orense , later to gain notoriety by his public denunciation of the doctrine of national sovereignty ) was caught between , on the one side , the urban democracy of Cadiz , where a ‘ Junta of merchants ’ , elected by a ballot of householders , had assumed the airs of a sovereign body and , on the other , the antiquated obstructionism of the Councils . |
| 27 | Appeal from county courts and the High Court lies to the Court of Appeal ( civil division ) , which is presided over by the Master of the Rolls and where the other judges are Lords Justices of Appeal ( of whom there are some thirty ) . |
| 28 | The historic debate which led to the adoption of the new name was presided over by the Rev Alan Mackenzie who had become Chairman in 1967 . |
| 29 | The natural world , presided over by the image of the benevolent patriarch , was moralized to carry the significations of goodness , health and social harmony integrated through sound procreation . |
| 30 | ‘ They were the same , but all the other cells were presided over by the man who founded the order at a place in England called Medmenham Abbey . |