Example sentences of "presided over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government . |
| 2 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 3 | There , he had presided over a society only slightly less diverse than that of the Caucasus and had fostered its development without trespassing dangerously on local sensibilities . |
| 4 | Throughout the period of the civil war and Interregnum , successive parliamentary and military regimes presided over a church establishment which remained staunchly Calvinist in outlook , and accepted the full , literal interpretation of the doctrine of predestination . |
| 5 | The fifth Northern Ireland Export Awards Competition reached its climax when Mr. Sam Torrens , Chief Executive , Northern Bank , presided over a presentation luncheon at Belfast 's Culloden Hotel . |
| 6 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 7 | Inside , the usual bored girl presided over a collection of postcards and tea towels . |
| 8 | Taylor ( 1987 ) points out that in the United States during the 1980s , the Reagan Administration , pursuing similar policies to those of the Conservatives , presided over a decline in crime and asks why the United Kingdom was different . |
| 9 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 10 | The prosecution 's only witness on the main charge that Beattie had convened and presided over a meeting of UDA officers to plan the murders was an anonymous Special Branch detective who claimed to be reporting evidence of a paid , anonymous informer . |
| 11 | The Duke presided over a county meeting in Lewes in January 1780 , which prepared a petition for ‘ Public Oeconomy ’ . |
| 12 | Jack could never remember a breakfast when she had not presided over the cups of tea , the bowls of cornflakes , the slices of grilled bacon and half tomato which was the start to the day every morning except Fridays and in Lent . |
| 13 | On April 20 , Boutros-Ghali presided over the signing by the leaders of all four Cambodian factions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic , Social and Cultural Rights . |
| 14 | In 1911 Mr Tom Hodge still presided over the firm bearing his name : a handsome , white-haired gentleman of fifty and the most conservative imaginable . |
| 15 | Mr McGregor says he 'll be sorry to leave his old job where he 's presided over the education reforms . |
| 16 | Superior Court Judge Stanley M. Weisberg , who had presided over the King trial , on May 15 ruled that the principal assailant , Officer Laurence M. Powell , should be retried on a felony assault charge . |
| 17 | The cosmic gods presided over the forces of nature in the great natural powers of sun , moon , earth , sky , air and water . |
| 18 | Aluberht was consecrated bishop of the Old Saxons at York in 767 , and Alhred presided over the council which sent Willehad to the Frisian mission field c . |
| 19 | She had managed , nevertheless , to seize a few moments with the erstwhile companion when the gentlemen returned , for Araminta had at once gone over to greet Mr Saul Quatt , who had , at her request , presided over the service in the local church — much to the chagrin of its incumbent , whose ruffled feathers Mrs Alderley had been obliged to smooth when she heard of the plan from him . |
| 20 | At both the Annual General Meeting , and the Council Meeting earlier that day , tributes were paid to Mr Flemington for the energy and commitment with which he had presided over the Institute and promoted its work . |
| 21 | Aislabie , therefore , presided over the MCC as cricket was transformed into a more wholesome , well regulated , and even pseudo-religious pastime . |
| 22 | Congratulations to Mr Howard Bloody Wilkinson , not only has he presided over the transfer of David Batty , the sale of the League to the scum but he now seems intent on pissing off Rocky . |
| 23 | As chairman of the 1848 committee on the peasant question Alexander had presided over the cancellation of the one statute enacted between 1825 and 1855 which allowed serfs to buy their freedom irrespective of the wishes of serf-owners . |
| 24 | His hat remained in the hall ; his photograph in the silver-plated frame , polished twice a week , presided over the sitting room ; his memory was invoked , especially during Peter 's teens , in sentences that began with the ominous words , ‘ I know for a fact that your father would n't have wanted you to … . ’ |
| 25 | He was regarded as the architect of the PLO 's security and counterintelligence apparatus and was frequently assumed to have presided over the creation of the Black September organization , which was active from 1971-73 and whose actions included the attack at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 . |
| 26 | Two years later he became Leader of the House of Commons , and for the last two years of the Labour government presided over the empire of the Department of Health and Social Services . |
| 27 | García had presided over the distribution of semi-automatic rifles and ammunition to the self-defence groups during a visit to the area in early December 1989 . |
| 28 | The authoritarian paterfamilias presided over the institutionalisation of the double standard , while the pedestalised mother and wife depended for her purity on the degradation of the fallen woman . |
| 29 | Two very old ladies presided over the tea and coffee pots ; they were the oldest members of the League , having travelled out to Tollemarche district with their parents in covered wagons before the town itself existed . |
| 30 | Before managing the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Palazzo Grassi in Venice , the Swedish scholar presided over the fortunes of the Pompidou Centre , where he pioneered the multi-disciplinary approach and the concept of architectural flexibility . |