Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [adj] control [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 2 | This history of purity forces us to reassess accounts of ‘ modern sexuality ’ , such as Foucault 's , which stress the subordination of legal controls to the growth of more dispersed techniques of discursive power . |
| 3 | This was given added impetus in 1971 with the removal of quantitative controls on the UK domestic banking system and the rapid development of the CD and interbank markets ensued . |
| 4 | If we take as the distinguishing feature of devolution , as compared with deconcentration , the fact that it involves the removal of direct control by any of the organs of central government over the administration of the devolved powers , then two quite distinct types of devolution require recognition . |
| 5 | The percentage of glycated haemoglobin in the random sample taken in the visit to the patient 's home ( random haemoglobin A 1 estimation ) was used to measure the level of glycaemic control for each patient . |
| 6 | Israel allowed the old élite to travel to Amman freely so that , despite the loss of physical control of the territories , Jordan was still able to direct much of what happened . |
| 7 | The matter is made the more urgent by the collapse of central control of nuclear weapons and materials in the former USSR and the consequent need to ensure that the relevant republics accede to the NPT as non-nuclear weapons states . |
| 8 | The worst thing was having to climb that damned ladder to the roof of Flying Control in a howling gale and lashing rain , to see how far I could n't see across the air field and to estimate the strength of the wind which was doing its best to dislodge my desperate hold on the railing . |
| 9 | In fact it provided the industry with more control over its environment by making conflicts over environmental damage an administrative problem whose outcome could be predicted by corporate executives . |
| 10 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 11 | To put the point graphically , while Marx and his nineteenth-century comrades would have no great difficulty in recognizing the economic and the political spheres today , despite the major changes that have undoubtedly taken place in the last hundred years , in the cultural-ideological sphere the opportunities for hegemonic control on a global scale have changed out of all recognition . |
| 12 | There are many who argue that the key to hegemonic control in any societal system lies not in the economic nor in the political sphere , but in the realm of culture and ideology . |
| 13 | It objectively examines , evaluates and reports on the adequacy of internal control as a contribution to the proper , economic , efficient and effective use of resources . ’ |
| 14 | This is partly the result of inadequate control over facades and signing , reinforced by the trend toward corporate design by major retail chains . |
| 15 | These figures show the effect of central controls on local authority capital spending on housing construction . |
| 16 | Information about the effect of diabetic control on prostacyclin production comes from animal studies . |
| 17 | They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget . |
| 18 | France had also opposed the imposition of tighter controls on the ownership of guns , on the grounds that the right to bear arms had been incorporated into the Constitution drawn up after the 1789 revolution-although it had also demanded the right to suspend the travel rights enshrined in the Schengen agreement in cases of emergency ( for earlier disagreements see p. 36154 ) . |
| 19 | The societal benefits of this are akin to those arising from the imposition of general controls on financial efficiency of the firm — forcing it to think more carefully about its spending . |
| 20 | This is particularly likely to occur for larger cities with very limited amounts of vacant land and in rural areas where environmental and other considerations have led to the imposition of strict controls on new building . |
| 21 | They included the immediate retirement of all civil servants at or above retirement age , the suspension of civil servants who were within two years of retirement , a freeze on promotions , overtime and new recruitment , the closure of dozens of government departments and the state Banco Hipotecario Nacional , the imposition of strict controls on the Banco Central to restrict the growth of the money supply , the suspension of export loans and subsidies to industry , the raising of capital taxes and export duties , and the suspension of collective bargaining in the public sector . |
| 22 | Beaverbrook and Churchill agreed with him that Britain had compromised enough and the issue of economic control of air routes could be decided later . |
| 23 | The issues raised there not only go to the root of the relationships between adults and children but also raise the issue of political control in general and in particular , the rights and duties of individuals to confront a sense of injustice . |
| 24 | The issue of judicial control over juries with a view to pre-empting decisions of fact , however , is neutral as between objectivist and subjectivist approaches to mistake . |
| 25 | So you have to insulate the , the administrators from direct control of the people if you , if the administrators are going to make good decisions . |
| 26 | ( d ) The builder has the advantages of greater control over cost and reduced administration . |
| 27 | For these reasons studies detailing the effects of diabetic control on platelet function must be interpreted with caution . |
| 28 | Three inter-connected themes informed these activities , namely the continued control of cultural industries by a small group of immensely powerful TNCs ; the effects of this control on those countries too poor to have much of an independent presence in these industries ; and the opportunities that the new technologies offer for the development of the Third World . |
| 29 | Holmes à Court was obliged by the law against foreign control of ITV to sell his shares , which passed to Sears , a conglomerate including footwear and the William Hill betting shops . |
| 30 | One of the key elements of this study was the exercise of tight control over variables which may influence faecal bile acid profiles ; age , transit time , gall stones , cholecystectomy , hepatic function , hepatic metastases , previous surgery , and antibiotics . |