Example sentences of "[noun sg] of control over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 2 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |
| 3 | Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem . |
| 4 | Loss of control over events . |
| 5 | The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas . |
| 6 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 7 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 8 | Gray and Jenkins ( 1984 , p. 425 ) point to intraorganizational tensions created by the FMI : for example , between service departments on the one hand and the Treasury ( and formerly also the Management and Personnel Office ) on the other , with the latter fearing loss of control over departmental expenditure and manpower . |
| 9 | Economic decline has been presented as one of the causes of the weakening of the power of the state bureaucracy and its loss of control over its powerful provincial magnates . |
| 10 | Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 . |
| 11 | But the price of obtaining the destruction of working-class power and organization was a loss of control over the state by the bourgeoisie and nobility . |
| 12 | For a variety of reasons Stalin rejected a ‘ Finnish ’ solution in Eastern Europe in preference to a security formula based on ideological conformity and the maintenance of control over these countries ' internal as well as external policies . |
| 13 | The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy . |
| 14 | In this way the illusion of control over the ‘ sinister pluralisation ’ was established . |
| 15 | If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all . |
| 16 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Running under Digital Research 's GEM environment it provides an almost uncanny level of control over both simple and compound documents . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 26 | And , although I was instantaneously and utterly in love with you — and quite determined that we should marry as soon as possible — I have been trying my damnedest to keep some kind of control over my emotions . ’ |
| 27 | Interestingly , the date of the building is roughly contemporary with the Combe Down inscription , coinciding with a considerable tightening of control over imperial estates under the emperor Severus , when the liberality which had been introduced first by Hadrian and later by Pertinax was largely cancelled . |
| 28 | Even when industries were not state owned there were various other instruments by which government actually exercised a large measure of control over the private sector . |
| 29 | The second priority will be the division of your holding into a number of main blocks , depending upon your acreage , to give you a measure of control over the grazing of your pastures , to separate groups of stock ( e.g. rams from ewes ) , and to shut off fields for hay or arable crops . |
| 30 | Their agreement was the first based on profit-sharing as well as retention of copyright , which gave him a large measure of control over publication and future working of the copyrights . |