Example sentences of "[n mass] of controlling " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the ‘ prig ’ has to be nailed , it comes as no surprise to find that electronic tagging seems set to join the introduction of ID cards as a means of controlling the ‘ dangerous classes ’ , for as many anthropologists have shown , the concept of movement itself is possessed of dangerous ambiguity and prevents easy classification . |
| 2 | As the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons had demonstrated , however , neither the Government nor the health authorities had accurate information on the exact numbers employed or any sensible means of controlling numbers . |
| 3 | One means of controlling the way data are typed into a record is by a so-called ‘ authority list ’ . |
| 4 | Remissions for crime , given as part of the justice of the feud when the victims of the crime or their kin had been satisfied , were not in fact a sign of weakness on the part of the crown , forced to acquiesce with an aristocracy resistant to justice , as the author of ‘ L'Etat et puissance ’ had suggested ; they were the crown 's part in a highly effective means of controlling crime , dispute and disorder . |
| 5 | The activity of corticosteroids ( see Chapter 5 ) against lymphocytes has offered a means of controlling lymphocyte tumours . |
| 6 | a stove with a movable flap in the hole leading to the chimney-flue by which to regulate the draught as a means of controlling the temperature of the room . |
| 7 | It was their means of controlling my behaviour and getting me to do exactly what they wanted . |
| 8 | The arrangement whereby builders in competition with each other were invited to quote a price for which they would carry out all the work indicated on drawings and a specification , and to sign a contract to that effect , was introduced as a standard procedure by Hunt into the Office of Works as a means of controlling expenditure . |
| 9 | Increasingly , environmental biotechnology is being heralded as a means of controlling and improving environmental quality and it is also being applied to mineral extraction and resource recycling . |
| 10 | With the coming into force of Part 1 of the Control of Pollution Act on 14th June 1976 came a further means of controlling odours emanating from premises used for the disposal of ‘ controlled waste ’ , that is household , industrial and commercial waste , or any such waste defined by s.30(1) of that Act , especially where the odour is due to bad housekeeping , bad handling or spillages of waste . |
| 11 | Thus for Campbell the effectiveness of law as a means of controlling international nuclear force would be enhanced by the introduction at an international level of the type of legal process found in municipal legal systems , such as legislatures , courts , enforcement and monitoring agencies . |
| 12 | Conceptual clarification and reordering are , however , hardly sufficient as means of controlling force but they may be a necessary prerequisite for attaining this objective . |
| 13 | the Internal Division of Power within the Company as a Means of Controlling Managerial Power |
| 14 | And just as laws and institutions are not the only means of controlling governments , so too they are not the only means available to governments for achieving their policy goals . |
| 15 | As a means of controlling other people 's behaviour , it meets the essential criterion of power , but is largely unanalysed . |
| 16 | According to Walter van Halder of the Art and Antique Foundation , the project was conceived by a Dutch businessman two years ago and was welcomed by the Chinese authorities as one means of controlling smuggling of artefacts from the country . |
| 17 | Few had any great faith in prisons as institutions for the reform of the inmates they contained , nor of imprisonment as a means of controlling crime . |
| 18 | Foucault points out several factors which fundamentally challenge this : the fact , for instance that the sexual apparatus and the nuclear family were produced by the bourgeoisie as an aspect of its own self-affirmation , not as a means of controlling the working class ; that there are class sexualities ( and different gender sexualities ) ; that indeed there are sexualities , not a single uniform sexuality . |
| 19 | Goldsmith ( 1986 , p. xv ) observes that concern with legislation as a means of controlling central-local government relations and the parallel use of the courts to enforce government intentions has been a feature of post-1979 Conservative governments . |
| 20 | Decentralisation has been both a means of controlling public sector growth and a way to make public services more politically attractive , responsive and effective . |
| 21 | Credit scoring , he said , is just another means of controlling the credit risk . |
| 22 | One is a realisation in Asia that in order to participate fully in international trade and to deal in high-tech goods and high-tech ideas , copyright is a useful and indeed necessary element — copyright is the main means of controlling and regulating the flow of knowledge products of all kinds . |
| 23 | The system of investing thus developed would seem to have provided the state with a means of controlling both the quality and the quantity of the intake of students into the learned profession . |
| 24 | Setting standards for the amount and quality of work to be done by employees often does not provide an effective means of controlling their performance . |
| 25 | Labour disputes , involving two of the public sector 's most powerful unions , marked a challenge to the government 's strategy of containing wage increases as a means of controlling inflation . |
| 26 | As a means of controlling a project they have two weaknesses . |
| 27 | The only means of controlling the temperature of the water in the kettle is the gas tap . |
| 28 | As a means of controlling a project they have two weaknesses . |
| 29 | This has led , Hall argues , to an increasing ‘ moral authoritarianism ’ , one involving , for example , the strengthening of the police force , a re-emphasis on family life as a means of controlling juvenile delinquency , increased calls for capital punishment , and a general return to old or ‘ Victorian ’ values . |
| 30 | While there is little doubt that endoscopic sclerotherapy provides a valuable and effective means of controlling acute variceal haemorrhage its role in the long term management of the problem remains controversial . |