Example sentences of "presided over the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Such was Roger de Clifford the Elder , who presided over the southern forests 1265–81 , and his grandson Robert de Clifford , ‘ one of the greatest barons of the age ’ who headed the northern Forest administration 1297–1308 .
2 From his vantage point astride Fleet , a chestnut police horse , PC Schrosbree could afford to look happy as he presided over the slow-moving queue .
3 The party also nominated the head of state ( currently Mathieu Kerekou , who assumed office in 1972 and was most recently re-elected in August 1989 ) , who was elected by the Assembly for a five-year term and who presided over the National Executive Council .
4 In the frightful aftermath of the war , he dithered about UN protection for fleeing Kurds and presided over the horrendous first muddle in UN relief work .
5 In his verdict the judge who presided over the four-month hearing said that Gecas ( formerly Antanas Gecevicius ) , 76 , a retired mining engineer living in Edinburgh , had " participated in … the killing of innocent Soviet citizens , including Jews , in Byelorussia during the last three months of 1941 " .
6 The $338m damages an Arizona jury awarded to Standard Chartered against Price Waterhouse in the US has been struck out , and a retrial ordered by the same judge who presided over the original trial .
7 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 .
8 The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus .
9 After the disruptions of 1792-9 Rey presided over the artistic re-establishment of the Opéra .
10 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 .
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