Example sentences of "[verb] control [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ( the MLTB ) now has control of the MIC and presumably the Single Pitch Scheme , with the guides ' carnet soon to follow , the whole thing will be out of BMC hands . |
| 2 | American owned rival Whyte and Mackay made its long awaited swoop this morning and now has control of the Leith based company — making the combined group the third biggest scotch whisky firm . |
| 3 | Subsequent reports claimed that Li 's offer had effectively endorsed the status quo under which China retained control over the Aksai-Chin region in northern Kashmir , with India preserving sovereignty over the disputed state of Arunachal Pradesh . |
| 4 | There were fears that the army and military police would now move quickly to impose control on the Miguel Castro Castro prison in Lima , where an estimated 900 Sendero inmates had created no-go areas to emphasize their political status . |
| 5 | In 1863 Turner 's third son , William , assumed control of the Hammersmith Iron Works , but Turner remained involved in the business into the 1870s , in particular over the additions to the Winter Garden at Regent 's Park and those to the curvilinear range at the National Botanic Gardens , Dublin . |
| 6 | What can stop us — stop us establishing control from the Pacific coast to the Urals — especially with the help of Angel ? ’ |
| 7 | The release of a number of Palestinian prisoners from Syrian prisons in March 1991 indicated that a possible thaw in relations was under way , although some commentators claimed that the move was part of a plan by Assad to wrest control of the PLO from Arafat . |
| 8 | The second decree , in 1977 , represented a further attempt by the military government to wrest control from the TNCs , particularly to counter the defensive measures that the TNCs had developed to nullify the effects of the first decree . |
| 9 | Other troops would meanwhile attack Southsea Castle , gain control of the Spithead anchorage beyond it , and be landed at Gosport , the peninsula stretching into the Solent on the other side of Portsmouth . |
| 10 | If he got control of the West Bank and Gaza , he would soon turn on Israel proper . |
| 11 | AZERBAIJAN : The Christian Armenians are fighting Muslim Azerbaijanis to keep control of the Nagorno Karabakh hills . |
| 12 | His empire was badly shaken by the October 1987 worldwide stock market crash [ see pp. 37540-41 , and he eventually lost control of the Bell Group to fellow Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 13 | On Jan. 24 , Hamas lost control of the Gaza Strip Engineers ' Association , when PLO-supported candidates won five of the nine seats . |
| 14 | Under the new organizational arrangements the French General Confederation of Labour ( CGT ) took control of the WFTU 's bureaucracy , which would be cut by three-quarters and reorganized into five regional offices . |
| 15 | On Aug. 3 a group of soldiers took control of the Kaba military camp in Natitingou , in the north-east . |
| 16 | Legally registered only since late February , Rukh also performed well in the west of the republic ( a nationalist heartland ) , where it took control of the Lvov city soviet . |
| 17 | On the other hand , strength at sea would help displace the Portuguese who had gained control of the Indian Ocean a century earlier , and this would please the Emperor ; accordingly the East India Company armed its ships heavily enough to hold the sea against the Portuguese and against the local pirates . |
| 18 | The drama began when Musayev seized control of the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 jet airliner between the Siberian oil capital of Tyumen and St Peterburg on Saturday morning . |
| 19 | Soon after the Persian Wars , as we saw on p. 23 , King Leotychidas of Sparta led an expedition to Thessaly , and ended the tageia of the Aleuads ; at about the same time , Plutarch says , there was a Greek , perhaps a Spartan , fleet at Pagasai , whose strategic importance we have just noticed , and the Spartans tried to get control of the Amphictyony ( see p. 33 ; Plut . |
| 20 | The LDDC has taken control of the Docklands Light Railway from London Underground and has made some progress . |
| 21 | Ltd. , a powerful group controlling many tramway systems throughout the country , were thwarted by an injunction from obtaining control of the Croydon Tramway Co. at the turn of the century when electrification was first proposed . |
| 22 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 23 | Microsoft 's attempts to take control of the US Windows-based home finance and small business accounts market has so far failed to unseat Intuit 's top selling package , Quicken 6 for DOS . |
| 24 | One of the last acts of the Directorate of Government Protection before it was abolished [ see above ] was to take control of the Izvestiya publishing house on Oct. 27 . |
| 25 | However , a report in the Washington Post of March 14 claimed that the move marked the start of an ambitious new phase in Syria 's longstanding campaign to take control of the PLO . |
| 26 | The first allowed Ragusa to take control of the Pelješac peninsula on payment of an annual tribute to Tsar Dušan , ruler of the Serbian empire . |
| 27 | In the meantime , they want Israel to give them full authority over all the land in the West Bank and Gaza ( except , temporarily , over the Jewish settlements ) ; to yield control over the West Bank 's water sources ; and to allow an arbitration committee with members from Jordan , Egypt , Russia and America to oversee the interim period . |
| 28 | They had control of the Temple worship , sacrifices and finances . |
| 29 | The dock company , being responsible for the port 's facilities had control of the Gillingham Gate , the only access to the port and , therefore , all vehicles going to and from the port had to use Bridge Road and Medway Road . |
| 30 | But now Mr de Klerk has lost control of the South African Broadcasting Corporation . |