Example sentences of "of control over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | None the less , viewers seemed to resent their lack of choice and lack of control over what they saw . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It extends the householder 's feeling of control over his or her domain , and gives a direct outlet for the natural desire to improve it . |
| 5 | This would deprive party bosses of control over the election . |
| 6 | In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed . |
| 7 | Hopefully they may at least be able to feel they have an element of control over what is happening . |
| 8 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |
| 9 | Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets . |
| 10 | Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Collegiality in this form is still predicated upon the idea of control over the organisation . |
| 13 | In terms of day-to-day influence over policy or even in terms of control over the executive , its powers are risible . |
| 14 | Unlike France , however , the parliament is not constitutionally supine ; indeed it has a degree of control over policy which some might envy , although this is more a result of governmental weakness than anything else . |
| 15 | Control over monetary policy is political and a lack of control over it is undemocratic . |
| 16 | The formal proletariat is defined by its lack of control over both the means of production and the labour of others ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The direction of the technology is one of control over nature , yield maximisation , and at the same time reliability of quality , control over yields and harvesting dates ; as a whole it responds quickly to the needs of the market . |
| 20 | The conservation area legislation also gives local planners a stronger degree of control over shopfronts than any other part of the building or type of building . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The centre 's goal has been to enhance the quality of life of people who have cancer , and to possibly allay progression of the disease ; to give people some feeling of control over their lives and their healthcare , and to help them cope better with having cancer . |
| 23 | Dependence on bureaucracies ( local authorities , the NHS , the social security system ) is said to present people with a lack of control over their own lives , to damage the spirit of independence . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However , as with other renewables the lack of control over the matching of electrical output to demand is a disadvantage . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Schools have always had a fair amount of control over their resources — making decisions about accommodation , capitation and so on — and their decisions have normally been used in accordance with the identified needs of the institution , whether explicitly identified or not . |
| 30 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |