Example sentences of "[art] [adj] control over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ultimate control over the government is the prospect that the Commons will refuse to pass a vote of confidence . |
| 2 | Neither House of Parliament exercises the constitutional control over the minister in the Council which is exercised by the Danish Folketing Market Committee . |
| 3 | Furthermore , whereas the House controls the ways it and committees are televised , it can exercise no editorial control over the ways the broadcasters use this material in their programmes , provided they comply with four specific guidelines . |
| 4 | We have no direct control over the provision of services to clients by suppliers . |
| 5 | It was a personal control over the labour and time of women . |
| 6 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 7 | Theda kept a tight control over the lurching of her heart . |
| 8 | Since these measures were to be accompanied by a tight control over the supply of bank credits , there seemed to be a reasonable chance that the new policy would succeed in bringing the foreign balance closer to a state of equilibrium . |
| 9 | The Assembly , though renamed the ‘ European Parliament ’ in 1962 , had no effective control over the Council or Commission . |
| 10 | The Central Authority 's ambition to standardise was also based on the role accorded to it by statute ‘ … to co-ordinate the distribution of electricity by Area Boards and to exercise a general control over the policy of those Boards ’ . |
| 11 | But under the rules of self-management direct investment is heavily discouraged , since the investing firms can obtain no long-term control over the management of their ‘ subsidiaries ’ , and have no prospect of receiving reasonable profits ( or even other alternative advantages ) . |
| 12 | The empirical evidence suggests , however , that the supervision which institutional investors exercise over the management of a company is minimal and can not be regarded as a sufficient control over the managers of large public companies . |
| 13 | They had no formal control over the staff or the centres ' finances . |