Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] control " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comprehensive and complex formal procedures were being simplified to concentrate on key issues of control , and a step-by-step guide is being produced for headquarters managers and principals and governors of schools and colleges . |
| 2 | Fifteen µl of vehicle were added to 1.5 ml of control suspensions . |
| 3 | One thing that can be said for this type of control is that you only need a minimum of movement in the pot to switch between crunch and scream . |
| 4 | When madness can not be contained , or attempts to control it fail repeatedly in spite of various changes in mental health policies , the answer is sought in greater powers of control and surveillance , now extended into people 's homes and the community at large . |
| 5 | Positive transfer was , however , observed by Mackintosh and Holgate and by Siegel , the comparison being made in each case with control subjects that received initial training on a discrimination between stimuli other than those that were relevant in the transfer task but with the latter stimuli being present but irrelevant . |
| 6 | The aim of the remaining Chapters , therefore , is to show that system performance can be maximised and costs minimised by correct choice of control scheme and interfacing technique . |
| 7 | It should then contain a generative formulation which can not easily be suppressed or denied ( T. Turner 1977 ) , for such domains of power lying between functional systems of control and disorder are , as Victor Turner ( 1977 : 45 ) reminds us , ‘ not merely reversive , they are often subversive , representing radical critiques of the central structures [ of a system ] ’ . |
| 8 | Such spatial and temporal fixations are also deliberately elaborated in other institutions of control , such as the armed forces . |
| 9 | Epithelial and lamina propria mononuclear cells were isolated from surgical specimens from control , Crohn 's disease , and ulcerative colitis patients . |
| 10 | Such economic transformations tend to undermine both the national independence of Third World countries , and the autonomy of women where this is based on some degree of control over land . |
| 11 | Up to a limiting range of flow , the water can be almost completely softened without any difficulty in control . |
| 12 | We can conclude that so far the law 's quest to subject the power conferred on corporate managers to controls to prevent it from being exercised arbitrarily has not been successful . |
| 13 | But changes in the means of production , and especially printing , led to new forms of control , with more emphasis on prevention than on retribution : a direct reflection of the new conditions of rapid and extensive reproduction . |
| 14 | Management autonomy has led to serious problems of control . |
| 15 | Tall hierarchies are characterised by small spans of control but with a large number of managerial levels ( see figure 26 ) . |
| 16 | Ginny smoothed her hands on her dress and got her breathing under some sort of control . |
| 17 | The advantage of using a switch which is either completely off or completely on over any form of variable resistance as in linear supplies , is that no power is dissipated in this sort of control element , whatever the load requirements are or whatever the voltage developed across the switch happens to be . |
| 18 | Judicial review of the exercise of discretionary powers by administrative bodies has been self-consciously based on the need to ensure that the intention of the legislature is implemented and that discretionary power is subjected to some sort of control in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 19 | That information is sent to tactical computers in control stations to produce guidance for artillery and missiles — the American army 's new tactical missile system has been designed to operate as part of such a set-up , hitting targets more than 100km ( 60 miles ) off . |
| 20 | Examples of this kind of manipulation are discernible throughout recorded history and occur at all levels of control , from the actions of the relatively insignificant leaders of quite small groups formed for almost any reason , religious or otherwise , to the governments of nations who become powerful enough to dominate the world . |