Example sentences of "[noun] preside over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun and scenery contribute to Vorarlberg 's family appeal ( top ) , while a giant Suchard cow presides over the chocolate festival ( left ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At Christie 's , Noel Annesley presided over a satisfactory auction with his customary skill , a failing voice enhancing , rather than diminishing , his dry humour which maintained the momentum of the sale . |
| 4 | None the less , the President presides over the Conseil des Ministres ( the Cabinet ) and is responsible for determining the main outlines of policy while reserving certain areas almost exclusively for himself ( especially defence and foreign policy ) . |
| 5 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 6 | Noel Edmonds presides over a launch party in London , but the demo machine does n't function all that well . |
| 7 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 8 | As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association . |
| 9 | Dennis presides over the walled garden , which supplies the kitchens at Highgrove and Kensington Palace and grows all the weird and wonderful varieties that the Prince acquires and delights in surprising his guests with . |
| 10 | The chairman Mr. Liam Curran invited Mr. Andy Heffernan , the President of the IBOA to preside over the meeting . |
| 11 | In Romania , however , there was not even a ripple when Mr Gorbachev went to Bucharest to preside over a Warsaw Pact summit in July . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In place of the major role which workers were demanding in running the factories , Lenin presided over the centralization of economic power and the establishment of managerial structures divorced from the rank and file . |
| 14 | The hour of Britain 's total defeat was at hand , and Winston Churchill would soon abandon England to preside over the ruins from the safety of his Canadian dominion . |
| 15 | Standing exactly where Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the People 's Republic of China on 1 October 1949 , paramount leader Deng Xiaoping joined other party leaders atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace to preside over a night of fireworks and martial music in Tiananmen Square . |
| 16 | NIGEL Lawson , who as Chancellor presided over the property boom and bust , has finally sold his home after two years on the market . |
| 17 | During the following months five judges presided over a new series of perambulations in the counties of Northampton , Huntingdon , Rutland , Oxford and Surrey . |
| 18 | Inside , the usual bored girl presided over a collection of postcards and tea towels . |
| 19 | While I would not seek to question the decision of the judges of a number of the awards ( although you may note for the record , however , that there were a lot of eyebrows raised in the trade by the comments on and judging of Helpware magazine , which won both contract title of the year and runner-up to best consumer launch of the year in the 1992 Publishing Awards ) , I would like to question the appropriateness of the chairman of the judges presiding over a ceremony where his own company won the most number of awards . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A seven-member collective leadership of three Muslims , two Croats and two Serbs presided over the republic . |
| 23 | When Senegal achieved self-government in 1958 , and full independence in 1960 , Senghor presided over a one-party state but one in which public debate was more widespread than in most of Africa . |
| 24 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 25 | Lord Justice Butler-Sloss presided over the Cleveland inquiry into child abuse . |
| 26 | Mrs Tiller presided over the one in Blackpool while he was at the grander one in Addlestone , Surrey , to which , when the Girls were playing in London , he would invite small groups for a short weekend . |
| 27 | In his old age , Banks presided over the destruction of these fens , supporting the drainage projects of John Rennie , according to The Farmer 's Magazine of February 1807 , against ‘ a party of uninformed people , headed by a little parson and a magistrate ’ . |
| 28 | Throughout the remainder of the 1650s , successive governments presided over a wide diversity of religious practice ; large numbers of English men and women continued to frequent only their parish churches , many worshipped solely in gathered congregations of Independents , Baptists , and Quakers , and many more regularly attended both sectarian and parish worship . |
| 29 | The first two Conservative governments presided over an economy which produced ever increasing numbers of unemployed people . |
| 30 | The wealth of diamonds incorporated in her regalia reflected the fact that Catherine presided over a realm that for a short period was the world 's leading producer . |