Example sentences of "presided [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Houses the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland , presided over by the Lord High Commissioner , representing Her Majesty the Queen . |
| 11 | A rigid hierarchy of hereditary , occupation-related caste was presided over by the warrior ( bushi ) or samurai élite . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " 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 . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Determined to maintain the authority of the president , in 1766 he overruled the appointment of a new steward ( who oversaw the domestic arrangements of the college ) made at a meeting presided over by the vice-president , having persuaded eight of the senior fellows to protest at the action and ruling that the proceedings were contrary to statute . |
| 24 | An operation by Turkey to divert the flow of the Euphrates river away from Syria and Iraq in order to fill the reservoir behind the newly constructed Ataturk dam ( believed to be the fifth largest in the world ) was begun on Jan. 13 in a ceremony presided over by the Turkish President , Turgut Özal . |
| 25 | The talks were presided over by the president of the National Reconciliation Commission , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño . |
| 26 | Thanks to the commission 's high reputation ( it was presided over by the present Federal Reserve chairman , Mr Alan Greenspan ) , this package was adopted . |
| 27 | It is presided over by the prime minister . |
| 28 | This weekend , on the anniversary , the event was recreated complete with Mad Hatter 's tea party presided over by the Queen of Hearts herself . |
| 29 | Periodically praised in most food guides , the restaurant has been presided over by the urbane Tom Jones , formerly manager of the Scotch Corner Hotel . |