A bald, pipe-smoking man presided over the meeting.

A tall, bespectacled man is presiding over the bar counter.

Both men presided over the MoD at a time when it ran up a £36 billion black hole in its budget.

A portly, pipe-smoking man, he presided over a period of enormous growth for the university.

A round-faced man with deep lines in his face, but with jet-black hair, presided over the establishment.

The holy man had often presided over services at court and at Rokujo .

But the problem was not simply that a man who describes himself as a socialist was presiding over this triumph of capitalism.

"Obviously, a man with this lack of sensitivity should not have been presiding at a capital murder trial."

True, the state over which the man on the escalator presided has nuclear weapons and other potent military assets.

There a man and woman presided behind tables heaped with brown clothing.