Example sentences of "no control over the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the sanctity of the self-management system , any enterprise that makes a direct investment in another enterprise ( through so-called ‘ pooling labour and resources ’ ) has no control over the activities of the recipient organization and can expect no return other than interest on its investment ( at a sharply negative rate ) . |
| 2 | The government of the Virgin Islands was accused of mismanagement and having almost no control over the activities of DC personnel working on the project . |
| 3 | Similarly , there may be no control over the consequences of changing the different variables and there may be unforeseen consequences . |
| 4 | The secretariat minuted that under the 1870 Education Act and the existing code the board had no control over the content of religious education . |
| 5 | ( c ) The classroom teacher has no control over the content of the filmed lesson ( or broadcast TV films ) . |
| 6 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 7 | The chief pharmacist , for example , has no control over the number of prescriptions that come into his department . |
| 8 | I have no control over the length of speeches , but I am perfectly able to control the debate . |
| 9 | At the local authority level Dorset County Council ( 1980 ) , in a booklet called Looking at Schools , talks of a joint-evaluation , which amounts to an inspection with the school agreeing to the report , but having no control over the process of the inspection . |
| 10 | The developer introduced to or locating land suitable for development will often have no control over the method of disposal . |
| 11 | But they wo n't be able to deal with their main sources of production , as er Professor Bradshaw said there , they 're going to have absolutely you 've got no control over the track on on which they operate , and they ar going to have to hire their carriages from and rolling stock from a separate leasing company , so their room for manoeuvre is limited to say the least . |
| 12 | Alternatively , a survey may be used to gather data in circumstances where little or no control over the value of variables of interest is possible . |
| 13 | The issue here is that the debtor has no control over the use to which the credit is put . |
| 14 | Are there no controls over the extent to which a demented public servant can make a public nuisance of himself ? |