Example sentences of "[noun sg] of control [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 32 | And devolution might be less effective than it should be if , as could well be the case in Scotland for example , the support for one particular party was such that there was very little likelihood of a change of control at elections . |
| 33 | The agreement declares that the member is admitted to clearing membership ; this requires the member to notify LCH of such events as a petition for liquidation , loss of authorisation under the 1986 Act , the imposition of any disciplinary measure by a regulatory authority or a change of control of the member . |
| 34 | There are various other points which should be noted about a reverse takeover offer : ( 1 ) Because it involves a change of control in the smaller company it will be necessary for the transaction to be sanctioned by a vote of the independent shareholders in that company and the " Whitewash " procedure followed ( see para 8.5 below ) . |
| 35 | For this reason there is a need for the function of control to be incorporated into the system . |
| 36 | The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed . |
| 37 | The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed . |
| 38 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |
| 39 | Running under Digital Research 's GEM environment it provides an almost uncanny level of control over both simple and compound documents . |
| 40 | It gives you a level of control over the configuration that is cleaner and quicker than anything DR-DOS offers in its question and answer CONFIG.SYS functionality . |
| 41 | There are various ways in which this can be carried out depending on the age of the child and level of control of the parents . |
| 42 | Whether you manage one vehicle or a fleet of 10,000 , whether your journeys are long haul or local , whether you operate cars or coaches , vans or HGVs , Shell Fuel Cards can bring a new level of control to your fleet . |
| 43 | defining a sensible unit of measurement as the ‘ job ’ ; many systems give a totally inadequate level of control through jobs being defined too widely ; |
| 44 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 45 | What we do need is the equivalent of what we 've got in the documents which I 've given to you which is some sort of allowance for every bit of control of the thing . |
| 46 | Donald Woods , 58 , was the only white members of the governing council of the South African Cricket Board of Control at the time of his arrest and banning in Johannesburg by state decree in October 1977 . |
| 47 | True , Gower upset the Indian Cricket Board of Control with sensitive claims about ball scuffing in the last series here two years ago . |
| 48 | State President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , who is also the patron-in-chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan , in awarding gold medals said , ‘ Cricket , to borrow someone 's words , is a subcontinental game accidentally invented by the British ! |
| 49 | Playing for Old Anandians against Rio Sports Club at the Ananda College ground , schoolboy Anjana Jayasuriya scored 339 , the highest-ever score in any tournament under the aegis of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka . |
| 50 | SLR have recently entered into a contract with MCC to electrify the main scoreboard at Lord 's , and they are about to send electrical units to Karachi for the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan . |
| 51 | Former Chief Justice of Pakistan ; founder-member , Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan ( 1948 ) ; BCCP vice-president 1948–53 ; honorary life member of MCC . |
| 52 | The Act dissolved the Company and transferred its powers and those of the Board of Control to a new Secretary of State . |
| 53 | DEREK ANGOL must appear before the British Board of Control on January 13 after a positive drugs test . |
| 54 | With the establishment of the British Boxing Board of Control in 1929 boxing was freed from the private control of the gentlemen of the National Sporting Club , and despite the dominance of the United States , especially in the heavier weights , boxing remained an extremely popular professional sport . |
| 55 | Which Conservative MP became a steward of the British Boxing Board of Control in 1987 ? |
| 56 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 57 | ‘ I have asked Warren to lodge £50,000 , non-returnable , with the British Boxing Board of Control by close of business next Tuesday if he is serious about promoting the fight . |
| 58 | ( This has been intensified by the relative weakness of the financial framework of control until recently . ) |
| 59 | It should be noted that what I have called a two-stage golden thread approach implies that human beings have some kind of control over what they will say is right . |
| 60 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |