Example sentences of "presiding over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Nordern raised her head as if appealing to the Deity presiding over the church . |
| 2 | PRESIDING over the collapse of one of America 's largest newspapers has been a humbling experience for the Tribune Company , a Chicago-based media group that is proud of its reputation for tough management . |
| 3 | The work of Peter Townsend and others showed that , far from presiding over the elimination of poverty , the Wilson Government actually failed to prevent some of its features from worsening ( Townsend and Bosanquet , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While presiding over the implementation of a large number of separate projects the entire structure of the Urban Programme seems increasingly marginal to the problems of both urban decline and mainstream inner-city policy . |
| 6 | Frank Layfield , the inspector who is presiding over the public inquiry into whether or not to build a PWR reactor at Sizewell ? |
| 7 | Judge Furner was still presiding over the county courts at Lewes after twenty-two years , and he continued to order defaulting and mostly absent debtors to be punished by having to spend short terms in the county gaol , for some time after New Years Day 1870 . |
| 8 | THE Tories were slammed last night for presiding over the loss of more than one-third of Britain 's manufacturing jobs — 2.5 MILLION . |
| 9 | And the best defence against a new Davidic Messiah , advancing with his legions , would have been an established Messiah already presiding over the Empire — a pro-Pauline Messiah , who had effectively pre-empted the claims of Judaic rivals . |
| 10 | The patriotic and religious duty of every Jew was to fight for the reinstatement of this birthright , this covenant — the reinstatement of a rightful ruler presiding over the Kingdom of Israel . |
| 11 | The Messiah of David would be a royal figure , presiding over the secular administration of the new kingdom , which he would bring into being through his military prowess . |
| 12 | Until the Public Records Act 1958 the care and preservation of public records were in the hands of the Master of the Rolls , an anachronistic responsibility for a senior judge who in his modern incarnation is fully occupied in presiding over the civil work of the Court of Appeal . |
| 13 | As well as being a Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the House of Lords he sits as a judge , presiding over the Law Lords in the Appellate Committee when time allows . |
| 14 | Presiding over the cosmic hierarchy are God and a corresponding hierarchy of angels . |
| 15 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 16 | Panic struck the New York stock market , share values fell dramatically and Hoover found himself presiding over the worst economic depression in the history of the USA . |
| 17 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 18 | Let me put it this way : presiding over the darkness out of which I had loomed there was a figure , a male shape , with an entirely unmanageable aura , containing such things as beauty , terror , love , filth , and above all power . |
| 19 | The candidates had strength and stamina and charm , and Fergus , presiding over the banquet , watching them perform feats of skill and endurance and strength , smiled . |
| 20 | When the Minister considers the proposed closure of research vessel support services at Barry , the destruction of the environmental research centre at Bangor , the threat to the environment from the Water Bill and the failure of Government Ministers to obtain a separate water authority for Wales , does he agree that the Secretary of State is presiding over the destruction of environmental research in Wales ? |
| 21 | In 1892 she was appointed vice-consul in Okoyong , presiding over the native court , and later ( 1905 ) vice-president of Ikot Obong native court . |
| 22 | Laura found other themes in Victorian novels to bolster what she already believed ; for example the home was viewed as a haven isolated from the trials and tribulations of the ‘ real ’ world and women presiding over the home were to make it as attractive as possible to persuade men to stay there rather than , for example , drinking in a pub all evening . |
| 23 | By Easter Eva was presiding over the annual weekend houseparty of the nurses ' fellowship . |
| 24 | The Basque separatist organization ETA claimed responsibility on March 13 for sending five parcel bombs ( one addressed to the Interior Minister ) , one of which seriously wounded Fernando de Mateo Lage , the judge presiding over the Audienca Nacional ( the court charged with handling terrorism cases ) , when it exploded in his hands in Madrid on Feb. 27 . |
| 25 | When CNN reported on Nov. 8 that it had obtained tapes of his telephone calls , Noriega 's chief lawyer , Frank Rubino , successfully petitioned District Judge William Hoeveler ( the judge presiding over the case ) for an injunction prohibiting the network from broadcasting any material which violated the confidentiality of the attorney-client relationship . |
| 26 | However , Lord Justice Lloyd , presiding over the latest appeal hearing at the Central Criminal Court in London , said that in the light of fresh evidence , which had become available since the previous hearing , their appeals would be allowed . |
| 27 | Away from the madding crowds the Sarsfields clubman is to be found down on the 100 acre family farm in Ballyuan presiding over the sheep and cattle . |
| 28 | Sheriff Brian Lockhart , who is presiding over the fatal accident inquiry , asked whether the Newton plans , referred to throughout five weeks of the inquiry so far as ‘ single lead ’ had not been considered to be so at the time . |