Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] control of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A site was sought for a garage , but before the matter could be taken further , there came news of a possible change in control of the company and things were left in abeyance for the time being . |
| 2 | The military involvement of England in continental war meant an unusually high concern for achieving and maintaining some measure of control of the sea . |
| 3 | The very fact that the installation of a protective system is considered presupposes that some degree of control of the fire is desired , and if this is the case , the degree of control required must be capable of being quantified . |
| 4 | The voyeur , in controlling the gaze , is to some extent in control of the action before his eyes , especially if the action relates to a supposedly inferior or primitive civilisation . |
| 5 | Although relations between Dimitrov and Ludzhev were strained , some commentators suggested that Dimitrov 's threat was the visible sign of a larger battle for control of the UDF . |
| 6 | West Germany 's Daimler-Benz looks set to win its long battle for control of the country 's aerospace industry . |
| 7 | The present interrelationship between control of the schools and the two alliances varies in each part of Ireland , though one should also bear in mind the additional underpinning of the alliances both North and South by one of the traditional values of bourgeois capitalism , private and selective schooling . |
| 8 | But it is also an inflated price since it represents a healthy premium for control of the last really big established national player in the US cellular market . |
| 9 | THE crucial elections campaign , in which Moldavian nationalists will challenge the Communist Party for control of the Soviet republic 's government in February , is being launched today . |
| 10 | Of any change in control of the business , its organization of management , or persons holding shares in the company which causes a change in the control of the company ( by letter ) . |
| 11 | THE head of French cosmetics giant L'Oreal yesterday ruled out any bid for control of the company by shareholder Nestle before 1994 . |
| 12 | As we have witnessed in the preceding chapter , the ideological contest for control of the past is largely predicated on the basis of the Renaissance being a phenomenon , something that can be discovered and controlled by accurate descriptions of what it is . |
| 13 | This does not give the impression of a Mercian king in control of the south-eastern provinces from the mid-760s . |
| 14 | For , as we shall see , political practice and behaviour at the local level can vary widely , even with the same party in control of the council chamber . |
| 15 | A good example is a recent struggle for control of the Sophonpanich empire . |
| 16 | Local government is different in this respect from central government where ministers derive their constitutional authority from the Crown and their political power from control of the majority of the House of Commons . |
| 17 | In 1662 the royal grant of control of the tapestry manufactory at Mortlake founded by Charles I brought disaster , even though coupled with an annual subsidy of £1,000 . |
| 18 | Simpsons ' directors yesterday recommended that shareholders accept Baldwin 's offer in what is expected to be the conclusion of a bitter struggle for control of the group . |
| 19 | Today 's move is expected to be the conclusion of a bitter struggle for control of the group . |