Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] control [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1947 it was agreed to impose exchange control on exports of capital to South Africa , but this was not pursued when these flows ceased in 1948 . |
| 2 | For example , a high status will typically be attributed to the aim of acquiring material control over nature within Western capitalist societies , but will be accredited with a low status in a culture in which knowledge is designed to produce feelings of contentment or peace . |
| 3 | The aims of the thesaurus are , first , to exert terminology control in indexing and , second , to aid in searching by alerting the searcher to the index terms that have been applied . |
| 4 | As they broadened their location in the province , their duties were similarly extended to cover traffic control at pedestrian crossings and shoplifting . |
| 5 | Indeed , their proposals to give budget control to headteachers is explicitly seen as a way of making a direct link to schools not mediated by LEAs . |
| 6 | developed from Xerox research ( like just about everything else we take for granted in desktop publishing ) these are a method of providing user control over software without cluttering up the screen with text . |
| 7 | The authority , ‘ a body of people acting as trustees for the public interest ’ , does not however exercise executive control over broadcasting . |
| 8 | It should be said that many of the problems which make quality control of elements of the course above subject level a challenge for modular courses are not a challenge for conventional courses only because insufficient comparability exists to make quality control a serious possibility . |
| 9 | This method ensures configuration control of software issues , and forms what is equally clearly the prerequisite of software management . |
| 10 | For this reason , he is unable to support birth control by means of contraceptives , but he would have no hesitation in recommending self-control . |
| 11 | This assists the management in exercising cost control on commodities . |
| 12 | Athens could not ignore this , and an indecisive battle ( Tanagra ) followed by a decisive one ( Oinophyta ) gave Athens control of Boiotia till 446 ( see p. 43 for her ‘ land empire ’ ambitions , and for Sparta 's desire to set up Thebes as a counterweight to Athens ) . |
| 13 | you realise how important it is , that a , you 've got to learn self control in life , and that 's what Jenny learnt , she , she , never had to learn it , she had it from naturally from a , a little child . |
| 14 | In view of the serious situation that my right hon. Friend has outlined and the excellent policies that he is introducing to deal with it , can we have a clear assurance that the Government will resist any proposals at the Maastricht discussions to transfer immigration control to Brussels or the European Economic Community ? |
| 15 | This includes six speakers and fingertip stalk control for ease of use . |
| 16 | During the revolutions of 1848 he used his seemingly impregnable position to repress rebellion in Romania , to restore Habsburg control in Hungary , and to prevent constitutional change in Germany . |
| 17 | There is , in fact , a tension between legal concepts designed to facilitate state control over family life , and those designed to protect the family from undue state intervention and to boost family autonomy . |
| 18 | Nor has he been idle since 1990 , when he was apparently left without a City role after relinquishing executive control of money-brokers R P Martin , and the closure of his Quadrex Securities . |
| 19 | In those schools which have delegated budgets control of expenditure rests with the governing body . |