Example sentences of "of control over [art] " in BNC.

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1 Try to retain some sort of control over an emotional matter and expect partners to behave unpredictably and thoughtlessly .
2 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 .
3 This would deprive party bosses of control over the election .
4 In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed .
5 The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land .
6 Collegiality in this form is still predicated upon the idea of control over the organisation .
7 In terms of day-to-day influence over policy or even in terms of control over the executive , its powers are risible .
8 Roxborough criticises the standard account of the Mexican labour movement , for its one-sided emphasis on the aspect of control over the rank and file ( Roxborough 1984 ) .
9 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 .
10 Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side .
11 However , as with other renewables the lack of control over the matching of electrical output to demand is a disadvantage .
12 Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers .
13 LDCs ' governments also insisted on domestically-generated funds being used to finance economic development programmes and thus sought a greater degree of control over the operations of British banks .
14 The need for properly enforceable means of control over the supervision and maintenance of reservoirs becomes increasingly urgent . ’
15 It is generally believed today that hyperinflations can be avoided by the maintenance of a reasonable degree of control over the supply of money .
16 Certainly , the Parliament of the United Kingdom has a number of other functions and one of these , the exercise of control over the Executive , is of fundamental importance to the constitution of the United Kingdom .
17 The secondary ( vertical ) line is used to fire the shutter and also exercises a measure of control over the kite train .
18 Among the various characteristics of these technologies which Blauner identifies we highlight three here : the changing skill requirements , the worker 's sense of control over the work process , and changes in the meaningfulness of work — these last two characteristics being , to a very large extent , a product of the social relationships which the worker has with management and the end-user of the product being made .
19 In both craft and continuous-flow production the worker has a sense of control over the work process , claims Blauner .
20 Despite the well-founded fear of the Securitate , for most of the period of Communist rule in Romania , the secret police was not in the front-line of control over the population .
21 This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said .
22 In addition to imitation , there are a number of other procedures designed to give the teacher or therapist some degree of control over the child 's language production .
23 you may gain a sense of control over the ways in which HIV could affect you , your partner and your family
24 If they were both to preserve a measure of control over the wage structure in a capitalist economy and to win adequate state pensions for their members , then a retirement condition was inevitable .
25 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 .
26 Unless working-class children are given linguistic means of control over the disciplines of the curriculum , and situations in the outside world , they are unlikely to stand much chance of being upwardly mobile .
27 The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order .
28 The House of Commons was moving forward to assert a greater degree of control over the colonies than before ; partly to evade this , William created a Board of Trade and Plantations , made up of civil servants and privy councillors , that was unlikely to pay much more attention to the Commons than its predecessor , the Lords of Trade , had done .
29 To hypothesize , it was as if the king of France held the earldom of Cornwall or Lancaster from the king of England , who could therefore exert some degree of control over the foreign policy and behaviour of the king of France .
30 This explains why the Commission wishes to exercise some degree of control over the freedom to subsidise .
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